by RJ Shara | Jun 24, 2021 | Startups
Routinely testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending duty for energy companies and local safety authorities, and usually– as you may anticipate– involves either a boat or a minimum of a set of waders. Nixie gets the job done with a drone instead, making the procedure quicker, more affordable, and a lot less wet. The most […] You put the empty container in there, fly the drone out to the location, then submerge the arm. When it flies back, the filled container can be taken out while the drone hovers and a fresh one put in its place to bring to the next area. The drone method has actually the included advantages of having exact GPS areas for each sample and of not disturbing the water when it dips in. 
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by RJ Shara | Mar 22, 2021 | Startups
It’s plain to see that electric cars are the future, but there’s more to making that change happen than swapping out a gas motor for a battery-powered one– especially in airplane. H3X is a startup that aims to accelerate that future with a reimagined, completely integrated electrical motor that it declares outperforms everything on […] Electric motors typically have 3 primary sections: the motor itself, a power shipment system, and a gearbox, each of which might have its own real estate and be sold and mounted separately from one another. But however isn’t like H3X stumbled over a single advance that magically tripled the performance of electric electrical. Despite the substantial gains H3X claims, the target market of passenger airplane is hardly one that they, or anybody, can simply jump into. Graduating to passenger flights isn’t a remote dream, exactly, recommended Liben:”We’re already on our way– this isn’t 20-years-out type stuff. 
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by RJ Shara | Mar 2, 2021 | Startups
There are many tasks in the building industry that fall under the “dull, filthy, and harmful” category stated to be ripe for automation– however just a couple of can really be handled with today’s technology. One such task is the repetitive but important task of rebar connecting, which a start-up called SkyMul is aiming […] The steel rebar that offers strength to concrete floorings, walls, and other structures is held in place throughout the pouring process by tying it to the other rebar where the rods cross. Rodbusters (as rebar connecting specialists are called, or so I’m told) are masters of the art of looping a brief length of plastic or wire around an intersection between 2 pieces of rebar, then twisting and connecting it securely so that the rods are protected in multiple directions. Get in SkyMul, a start-up still in the extremely early stages however with an engaging pitch: rebar connecting done by a fleet of drones. A mapper drone flies over the website to mark the boundaries and then, in an automatic closer flyover, to build a map of the rebar itself and where the ties will need to go. Each one moves from spot to area, hovering and descending till its tying tool (much like those used by human rodbusters) covers the rebar crossway; the tie is wrapped, twisted, and the drone is off to the next spot….
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