from popsci.com Drones soon may be bound together by a common code. Airware, a commercial drone software company with MIT roots, hopes to unify drones in a shared code architecture. Airware already makes an autopilot, but that’s just the first step to creating a drone operating system, allowing hardware from different manufacturers to communicate with one another. It’s an … [Read more...] about Drone Brain Makers Want To Create The DOS Of Flying Robots
Jonathan Downey
Drone Startups, Seek Profit in Software and the Cloud
from xconomy.com Airware is a drone company that won’t be selling any drones. And it’s not alone: as the emerging market for commercial drones takes shape, a number of startups plan to earn profits by developing software and services for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), rather than focusing just on the hardware. San Francisco-based Airware said last week it raised $25 … [Read more...] about Drone Startups, Seek Profit in Software and the Cloud
Airware Raises $25 Million Series B to Bring Drone Operating System to Market
UAS hardware, software and cloud services provider Airware announced on Wednesday the closing of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital participating. Mike Abbott of Kleiner Perkins is joining Airware founder Jonathan Downey and Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz on the Airware … [Read more...] about Airware Raises $25 Million Series B to Bring Drone Operating System to Market
Consumer Drones: The View From Above
3D Robotic's Chris Anderson, DJI's Eric Cheng, Airware's Jonathan Downey and Skycatch's Christian Sanz discuss the future of the consumer drone industry at the Churchill Club discussion forum last Tuesday … [Read more...] about Consumer Drones: The View From Above
Bloomberg TV: Drones Have Arrived, What’s Next?
from Bloomberg TV Jonathan Downey, founder and CEO of Airware, Richard Jenkins, CEO & co-founder of Saildrone, Rich Mahoney, director of Robotics Program at SRI International, Christian Sanz, founder and CEO of SkyCatch and Brendan Schulman, Special Counsel at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP sit down with Bloomberg's Cory Johnson to talk about the future of … [Read more...] about Bloomberg TV: Drones Have Arrived, What’s Next?
