XTEND Acquires Drone Inspection Specialist Efficiency Rotors
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
Human-guided autonomous machine system developer XTEND has acquired drone inspection specialist Efficiency Rotors, permitting XTEND to enhance its skill to supply human-guided, distant interactive operations in numerous inspection eventualities, in addition to develop its world enterprise.
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“Our acquisition of Efficiency Rotors marks the most recent step in furthering XTEND’s imaginative and prescient of creating distant interactive operations accessible to everybody, in a spread of eventualities, together with inspection, public security and safety,” mentioned XTEND co-founder and CEO Aviv Shapira. “Daily, individuals threat their lives to make our world safer. Inspection is only one space, amongst many, the place machines, robots and drones can be utilized to perform what individuals can’t, in a extra economical, environment friendly, and safer method. We’re delighted that Keith Ng, Efficiency Rotors’ co-founder and CEO, and his workforce are becoming a member of XTEND on our journey in direction of making XOS the working system of selection for controlling drones, robots, autos, good gadgets, and good machines remotely, safely, and intuitively.”
XTEND affords human-guided autonomous machine techniques permitting operators to hold out complicated and correct maneuvers with minimal coaching. Its XOS working system permits for dependable autonomy, combining human intelligence with machine autonomy to enhance the operator’s talents and decrease the chance of damage. This technique lets professionals function drones and good machines, performing intricate operations requiring human interplay and decision-making from a distant place.
“Efficiency Rotors’s mission has at all times been to develop drones and robotics options for information acquisition in GPS-denied and confined house environments, with out the chance to human lives,” mentioned Efficiency Rotors co-founder and CEO Keith Ng. “Our in depth shopper base spans most of the world’s main oil and fuel, maritime and infrastructure initiatives, and our {hardware} is getting used throughout the World, significantly in APAC. We’re assured that combining XTEND’s innovation XOS software program with our world-class know-how brings the most effective of the business collectively in a single highly effective and simple to make use of answer that comprehensively addresses the vital challenges going through our prospects right this moment.”
The acquisition was led by world personal fairness agency Chartered Group. “The acquisition of Efficiency Rotors not solely enriches XTEND’s providing in industrial inspection, however it should additionally allow Aviv and his workforce to additional diversify their experience in oil and fuel, maritime and infrastructure initiatives, and develop XTEND’s software program enterprise globally, significantly right here in APAC and Japan,” mentioned Chartered Group Chairman Eyal Agmoni.
XTEND was just lately awarded a number of multi-million greenback contracts with the U.S. Division of Protection and MAFAT, the Israeli Ministry of Protection’s Analysis & Growth Directorate, to optimize their drone operations. Each entities already make use of XOS, permitting navy drone operators to interactively function a number of good machines from a distant, secure distance, with no coaching vital.
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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired 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 providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the business drone house 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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