AFWERX Awards ASYLON $1.2M Contract for U.S. House Pressure
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
AFWERX has awarded Asylon Robotics a $1.2M Section II Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis (SBIR) contract in an effort to transition its DogHouse unmanned floor car (UGV) recharging platform to battery swapping for UGVs.
Asylon will help the sixth House Warning Squadron (6 SWS) at Joint Base Cape Cod in growing a battery swap station for UGVs, permitting for uninterrupted safety operations. Asylon’s DroneHome battery swapping know-how, made to facilitate the automated swapping of batteries for small unmanned aerial automobiles (sUAS), shall be built-in into Asylon’s recharging Doghouse to kind a battery substitute/swap station for UGVs. The objective of the collaboration is to supply the flexibility to quickly re-power quadruped UGVs (Q-UGV) leading to steady perimeter safety operations.
“Asylon was based on the premise that automating the infrastructure for robots is essential to robots being efficient and adopted at scale. We began by growing a battery-swapping station that automated all the backend of operations for drones. My co-founders and I come from the aerospace and protection area specializing in delivering a holistic platform that meets the shopper’s wants, and accomplish that repeatedly and reliably,” stated CTO and Co-Founder Adam Mohamed. “From a know-how perspective, growing a dependable floor robotics model of our DroneHome battery swapping station will put Asylon within the distinctive place of the primary to have developed automated battery swapping stations for each air and floor robots. We’re excited to be partnering as soon as once more with the House Pressure to develop such a cutting-edge resolution.”
“The squadron will profit in being supplied belongings, within the type of the robotic safety canine and charging station, to keep up excessive tempo perimeter safety operations for deterrence and actual time intelligence,” stated Lt. Col. Stewart Smith, sixth House Warning Squadron commander.
Final 12 months, Asylon carried out greater than 24,000 remotely operated safety missions from their Robotic Safety Operations Middle (RSOC) using each air and floor belongings, making it the world’s largest robotic safety fleet operator. The Asylon DroneDog Q-UGV fleet patrolled over 9,600 miles over the course of 2022. Asylon expects the DogHouse to extend system efficiency dramatically, granting extra operational time for safety missions and worth to shoppers.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a employees author.
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the business drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand new applied sciences.
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