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Ondas acquires American Robotics to make use of autonomous drone know-how

Source: American Robotics

Wireless broadband company Ondas Holdings has acquired American Robotics, a drone company valued at $ 70.6 million.

American Robotics was founded in 2016 and is adding its scout drone system to Ondas’ portfolio – the first drone system to receive FAA approvals for autonomous flight. “This gives the company an exclusive first-mover advantage to enter the commercial drone market by overcoming the need for expensive visual observers to be on hand every drone flight,” said a statement from Ondas.

For Ondas, the acquisition will help integrate its technology platforms and improve automation, data collection and AI-powered analysis in industrial markets to improve the maintenance, monitoring and operation of critical infrastructures.

The American Robotics scout system will be integrated into the Ondas FullMAX platform, a network solution for the data communication solution for on-site use.

The company plans to deploy the Scout system as a mobile data acquisition application for large-scale operations in industrial, agricultural and government settings. The system includes:

  • Scout, a fully autonomous drone with advanced imaging payloads;
  • ScoutBase, a robust base station for living, charging, data processing and cloud transfer;
  • ScoutView, the analysis and front-end software package from American Robotics.

“We are excited to add American Robotics to the Ondas Group,” said Eric Brock, Chairman and CEO of Ondas.

“Ultimately, the drone industry’s product is data, not airplanes. The ultimate data collection device for mission critical operations, the drone solves a major problem for Ondas’ industrial and government customers and ecosystem partners. American Robotics’ full-stack IP portfolio is a complete system that enables Ondas to turn these vulnerabilities into growth opportunities powered by more extensive data collection. “

“The time is perfect for American Robotics to partner with Ondas to bring Scout Systems to market and scale customer deployments,” added Reese Mozer, co-founder and CEO of American Robotics.

“Ondas’ extensive experience and relationships in our target customer markets, as well as next generation industrial networking capabilities, will be incredibly helpful as we penetrate the large markets we target. We are seeing significant customer demand and are ready to deliver systems to an impressive pipeline of blue chip industrial customers in addition to new customer relationships through Ondas. “

Earlier this month, AUVSI named American Robotics a finalist in the Xcellence in Innovation category. Winners will be announced on August 16-19 at AUVSI Xponential at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

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