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Had a chance to see a live demo last month. Looks great, can do a lot more things than an SO-101 and the teleop via the app if both fun and useful. Would definitely buy if I had the money.

That will end up either dangerous or unreleased. Their system sends a 40W laser, which is what you use to cut plastics. There’s no way to make this safe as even a diffuse secondary reflection out of the field of view could blind someone.

Exactly! Plus we’ll get a nice beautiful sonar echo when they’re on walls/ceiling

Long term, around $300/unit

Unfortunately it won’t. an eye that collimates light is much more fragile to laser than a mosquito.

Everything works in simulation, and the detection works in the real world! We’re working on miniaturizing the electronics to embed it in a real drone.

Mosquitoes use different cues (olfactory, CO2 and infrared emissions/heat) depending on the distance to target.

We could do something about it. Any flying insect is only a change of parameters for us.

What do you mean by fidelity? We’re still unsure about the tails in terms of detection probability/false detection rate

It might be, but it’s a crowded market where politics and connections are worth more than technical expertise. So, we’re okay to stay out of it

Yeah, it’s one of our goal to work for government agencies at some point to implement city-wide mosquito control. 10 of our drones could cover a square kilometer, so we’d be a lot more efficient working at the city level rather than at the individual household level.

Not our highest priority concern haha

Their velocity is much lower than the one of the drone, so it wouldn’t make much sense to increase efficiency

Yeah, you’re spot on! The original name was « mosquitorgnole »