Co-Founders Reese Mozer (MRSD ’15, CEO) and Eitan Babcock (MRSD ’16, Chief Roboticist) of American Robotics, a Boston-based start-up focused on developing automated industrial drones, continue to find success. AR has raised $6.5 million in total funding thus far to support expansion of the team and further development of its pilotless drone technology. The successful rounds of funding have also led to some welcome press and media attention.
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About American Robotics
American Robotics is an industrial drone developer specializing in rugged, real-world environments. Through innovations in robot autonomy, machine vision, edge computing, and AI, American Robotics has created the next generation of drone technology: a fully-automated drone capable of continuous, unattended operation. American Robotics’ flagship product, Scout™, is sold via Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS), and is the first of its kind for the company’s beachhead market: precision agriculture. Scout systems have been deployed with Fortune 500 companies across the United States.
The ScoutTM platform consists of:
- Scout – A fully-autonomous drone
- ScoutBase – A ruggedized base station for housing, charging, edge computing, and cloud transfer
- ScoutView – An analytics and front-end software package.
Unlike traditional drone technology, Scout systems live in the field for multiple years, performing multiple missions per day without physical human interaction. Once installed, a fleet of connected, weatherproof ScoutsTM autonomously image, self-charge, and seamlessly deliver analytics reports regularly and reliably. The result of this automation, as well as the edge computing power that lives within each base station, is the ability to capture data at resolutions, frequencies, speeds, and prices never before feasible.
“This modest-looking little hangar and the drone it houses are the clearest signs yet that agriculture is on the verge of technological shift, with other industries not far behind… Scout is the first of what is likely to be the next great tech wave: systems capable of making so many decisions on their own that people need to provide very little, if any, supervision.” – Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine
