by Iris Automation | Oct 5, 2020
San Francisco, Calif. (October 5, 2020) – Commercial drone safety technology innovator Iris Automation announces its new CEO, Jon Damush, effective immediately. Co-founder Alexander Harmsen has been promoted to Chairman of the Board where he will guide strategy...
by Iris Automation | Sep 23, 2020
by Alejandro Galindo Why Detect-and-Avoid? In the past few years, Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) worldwide have been actively creating regulatory frameworks that will enable autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to fly safely Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS),...
by Iris Automation | Sep 8, 2020
by Hari Viswanathan There has been a lot of contention over how truly feasible Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are as last-mile logistics solutions. Currently, Amazon, Wing, Zipline, Uber, and Matternet have all developed unique UAV delivery platform technologies to...
by Iris Automation | Aug 19, 2020
Avidrone Aerospace to provide Iris Automation’s Casia to power safe beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations for long-range UAS cargo delivery San Francisco (August 19, 2020) — Iris Automation today announced it has been selected as the exclusive airborne...
by Iris Automation | Aug 11, 2020
by Alejandro Galindo, VP of Research & Development at Iris Automation What is obstacle avoidance? Drones currently on the market with ‘obstacle avoidance’ features are able to maneuver around static objects, such as buildings, mountains, and trees without being...