INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge
seen with DroneSeed, this type of flying is risky for pilots, who must fly very close to the ground and other obstacles, yet also highly
easy take-off and landing
scales.The craft Pyka has built is more traditional, resembling a traditional one-seater crop dusting plane but lacking the cockpit
Of course, there is also a sensing suite and onboard computer to handle the immediate demands of automated flight.Pyka can take off or land
flight computer.Example of a flight path accounting for obstacles without human inputAll this means the plane, apparently called the Egret,
can spray about a hundred acres per hour, about the same as a helicopter
But the autonomous craft provides improved precision (it flies lower) and safety (no human pulling difficult maneuvers every minute or
Pyka claims to be the only company in the world with a commercially approved large autonomous electric aircraft
and other craft; certification of the craft in other ways; a more robust long-range sense and avoid system and so on
Greycroft, Data Collective and Bold Capital Partners.
