{"id":140623,"date":"2022-06-14T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/san-diego-drone-tech-startup-raises-165m-to-build-ai-pilot"},"modified":"2022-06-14T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:23:52","slug":"san-diego-drone-tech-startup-raises-165m-to-build-ai-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/san-diego-drone-tech-startup-raises-165m-to-build-ai-pilot","title":{"rendered":"San Diego drone tech startup raises $165M to build AI pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Ez2BM6xQ8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shield AI, an artificial intelligence company focusing on drones and other autonomous aircraft, is on a mission to build \u201cthe world\u2019s best AI pilot.\u201d To that end, the San Diego startup has raised $90 million in equity and $75 million in debt as part of a Series E fundraising round. The funding values Shield AI at $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Hivemind employs state-of-the-art algorithms for planning, mapping, and state-estimation to enable drones to execute dynamic flight maneuvers. On aircraft, Hivemind enables full autonomy and is designed to run fully on the edge, disconnected from the cloud, in high-threat GPS and communication-degraded environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shield AI, an artificial intelligence company focusing on drones and other autonomous aircraft, is on a mission to build \u201cthe world\u2019s best AI pilot.\u201d To that end, the San Diego startup has raised $90 million in equity and $75 million in debt as part of a Series E fundraising round. The funding values Shield AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41,1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140623","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}