{"id":125932,"date":"2021-08-06T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/warehouse-drones-take-flight"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:23:38","slug":"warehouse-drones-take-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/warehouse-drones-take-flight","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse drones take flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warehouse-drones-take-flight.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drones are neat and fun and all that good stuff (I should probably add the caveat here that I\u2019m obviously not referring to the big, terrible military variety), but when it comes to quadcopters, there\u2019s always been the looming question of general usefulness. The consumer-facing variety are pretty much the exclusive realm of hobbyists and imaging.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a number of interesting applications for things like agricultural surveillance, real estate and the like, all of which are effectively extensions of that imaging capability. But a lot can be done with a camera and the right processing. One of the more interesting applications I\u2019ve seen cropping up here and there is the warehouse drone \u2014 something perhaps a bit counterintuitive, as you likely (and understandably) associate drones with the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, it seems we\u2019ve actually had two separate warehouse drone companies compete in Disrupt Battlefield. There was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/12\/intelligent-flying-machines\/\">IFM (Intelligent Flying Machines)<\/a> in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/06\/vtrus-launches-drones-to-inspect-and-protect-your-warehouses-and-factories\/\">Vtrus two years later<\/a>. That\u2019s really the tip of the iceberg for a big list of startups effectively pushing to bring drones to warehouses and factory floors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones are neat and fun and all that good stuff (I should probably add the caveat here that I\u2019m obviously not referring to the big, terrible military variety), but when it comes to quadcopters, there\u2019s always been the looming question of general usefulness. The consumer-facing variety are pretty much the exclusive realm of hobbyists and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,9,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-military","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}