Curt Lary from Hextronics talks about the universal drone-in-the-box. Having nailed the core requirements of a nest (the box), including enclosure, HVAC, opening and closing, charging, infrastructure, and command and control uplink, he could then configure it for a wide variety of drones. Scalability and cost-effectiveness are the key benefits, and the system is configurable for a wide range of UAVs. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to info@rmus.ca. This episode's cast includes: ...
Jul 06, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this episode of Did You Bring the Batteries, we welcome Edwin Sanchez from Votix , the groundbreaking platform changing the world of drone automation. Votix is a hardware-agnostic solution that delivers comprehensive drone automation, orchestration and remote operation capabilities. Our discussion covers effective strategies for managing integrated systems, live streaming flight videos to anyone, anywhere, remotely operating drones, risk reduction, and more. Have questions for the experts? Se...
Jun 28, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Josh Ogden of AVSS joins us in this episode to discuss urban drone operations and the advancements and challenges surrounding their integration into our cities. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com . This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host) Josh Ogden - Co-founder and CEO, Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions For more on RMUS visit: YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook...
Jun 08, 2023•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
In this episode, we launch the RMUS Autonomy Lab . To mark this special occasion, we speak with two of our Lab partners, Johann Beukes ( Levatas ) and Scott Nokleby ( Ontario Tech University ), about drone autonomy and AI applications. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host) Johann Beukes - Levatas, Chief AI Officer Scott Nokleby - Ontario Tech University, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineer...
Mar 03, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 26
This week the team looks at remotely operated vehicles used for inspection in dark, dirty, dangerous places humans don't want to go. That's right, underwater inspection. Our guest is Sam Macdonald whose curiosity about what lay beneath the waves of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay led her to co-found Deep Trekker , a global leader in submersible ROVs, utility vehicles and pipe crawlers. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel ...
Feb 10, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In the decade since writing the first SFOC to fly a drone in about 2012, Michael Cohen has been keeping pace with the rapidly evolving UAS industry, transforming Qii.AI into an artificial intelligence development company that takes building inspection to another level. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host) Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Michael Cohen - CEO, Qii.AI For more on R...
Nov 03, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 24
A legend in the aviation world, Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways and the show Ice Pilots NWT , joins us this week to discuss UASs from the point of view of manned-craft aviators. Mikey talks about operating modern UASs around an airport, the realities of automating cargo flights, and the many unexpected ways drones have changed the world. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Fraser H...
Oct 24, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode of Did you Bring the Batteries? we discuss Fire AI and how this program can be used to help track forest fires quicker and more accurately by deploying drones; however, not until we discuss jumping out of perfectly good planes over raging fires, flying BVLOS in restricted airspace, and the way drones in general can help manage the unpredictability of forest fire season. Before we delve into Fire AI, we give you all the details, and our thoughts, on the recently released Mavic 3 E...
Oct 07, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Kevin and Fraser recap the best things they saw at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, including Ascent AeroSystems's new nano-sized coaxial drone, big drones that fold up and fit into backpacks, rugged drones coming out of India, the upcoming DJI dock, using video to capture datasets, Parrot tactical mapping, and the other noteworthy things we got our hands on at the show. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podca...
Sep 26, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This week the team is joined by drone media mogul Dawn Zoldi . The Dawn of the drone industry gives our team some tips on how to grow a media empire, what the next big drone trends are, who to keep an eye on, which companies will have the biggest impact on the industry in the short term, and what can be done to control drone traffic when drones become as popular as cars. We also give our thoughts on DJI's new quadcopter the DJI Avata . Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts...
Sep 12, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Over the last few months, we briefly mentioned our roadshows across Canada. In Ontario, our open house and trade show took place at our RMUS Canada headquarters, where we hosted a series of inspection and public safety seminars led by various industry experts. In the first of our seminar series, we hear about surveying tools facilitated by industry leader Laurie McBean with Unmanned Aerial Services. Laurie's deep dive into surveying covers the differences between LiDAR and photogrammetry, why yo...
Aug 19, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This week we talk about the unique looking Spirit drone by Ascent AeroSystems, which is hard to describe and define. To help us, we invited Bobby Sakaki from Ascent AeroSystems on the show to discuss the Spirit, which was added to the Blue UAS list in June . We cover the aircraft in detail, including why it was designed the way it was, who could use the Spirit to its maximum potential, alongside many tangents about the drone industry as a whole. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails t...
Aug 08, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 18
For the past 16 episodes, the cast of Did You Bring The Batteries? has gone in-depth on a number of drone products, services and unique use cases (like natural disaster relief or counter-UAS work); however, we had not yet examined the industry as a whole. To correct this knowledge gap, we invited our friend, former DJI guru and current drone researcher, David Benowitz, to discuss the past, present and future of the drone industry. We go over trends, technology that is shaping the industry today ...
Jul 25, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 17
For the first time in months, Did You Bring The Batteries? (Powered by RMUS), is back at full strength. Now that everyone is back, we talk in detail about the things we saw over the past few months. In this episode, we're joined by a counter-UAS expert who discusses what it is, the challenges involved and why it is so important to the whole UAV industry. We review the new DJI Matrice 30 in more detail now that we had the stick time to really judge it. Also explored is the swarm flight system tha...
Jul 11, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The drone industry is always changing, but how do we change with it? One way we will have to evolve is how we approach training. We found a college that is about to redesign its government-approved training program, and lock it in for the next 5 years. We discussed the students of today, tomorrow and what drone training will look like in the near future. Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Canada Ted Strazimiri - Professor, RPAS, Fanshawe Colle...
Jun 27, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 15
I have made up my abandoned mind, we are talking about abandoned mines this week. With Kevin and Fraser out on roadshow duty, Jacob and I are joined by SRK's Olga Gibbons to discuss the issue of abandoned mines, why they are such a problem and what companies like SRK can do about them with the help of UAVs. We also had Pieter Stockmayer from Flyability visiting our Utah office and he spoke with Jacob about the new hazardous inspection aircraft, the Elios 3. Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (...
Jun 10, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Now that a number of the large scale UAV/RPAS tradeshows have come and gone, the RMUS team has reassembled in our studio to discuss what they saw at the first in-person AUVSI Xponential since COVID started. We also recap our hands-on time with the new Fluke Sensor that can listen for and detect leaks in pipes before they are bad enough for anyone to notice. The upcoming open house happening with all our industry partners at the RMUS Canada's facility, and Dan Cyr with GlobalMedic joins us to exp...
May 28, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 13
With the M30 moving from theoretical object to something that is on store shelves, the RMUS team finally got their hands on DJI's newest ship. That is why we assembled our in-house experts to provide you with our impressions of what this drone can do and how it behaves in the real world. We also invited KC Sealock, the lead pilot of Pixis Drones on our podcast to discuss the growing phenomenon of drone light shows replacing firework displays. KC explains the complexities of having 500 drones in ...
May 14, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 12
The first ever RMUS podcast roundtable convened to discuss our hands-on time with Parrot's recently released ANAFI Ai, how baby ducks were saved by a Mavic Mini 2, how the Blue sUAS program might be hurting American drone production, and drone cameras popping up at major league sporting events. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Fraser Hahn - Di...
Apr 29, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This week we talk with two extreme fliers who work on opposite sides of the earth's surface. They explain what it takes to make it in this industry, how they deal with troubling situations that could be fatal, which tools in their toolbox they rely on heavily, and how a Boston Dynamics Spot robot ended up on YouTube because it was at a bar. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin T...
Apr 15, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This week we talk with a veteran robot dog integrator, Brad Bonn of Boston Dynamics, about all things Spot. Brad explains why they made Spot the way they did, what Spot is good and bad at doing, some stuff you might expect to see in the future and some unheard Spot stories. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host) Kevin Toderel - General Manager Chad Walker - Director of Training Brad Bonn - Cu...
Apr 01, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This week we talk with a veteran of integrating drones into the toolkits of first responders: Romeo Durscher. Romeo will explain why compatibility between drone and payload manufacturers is the future of the drone industry, the hurdles the industry will have to overcome to achieve compatibility, and what it will take to bring the industry together to solve the compatibility issue. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - ...
Mar 18, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This week we talk with the founder and CEO of Teal Drones, George Matus. George lets us know who he designed the Golden Eagle for, why software solutions are important in the drone business, the difficulties of hardware production, and where the drone industry might be going in the next few years. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host) Kevin Toderel - General Manager Chad Walker - Director of...
Mar 04, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week we talk with veteran first responder, and current DJI employee, Chief Wayne Baker. Wayne recounts how first responders initially found use cases for UAVs in their everyday work. Which specs are the most important for a thermal camera when fighting fires? How the P1 can speed up police work? How you can organize multiple emergency services who want to use drones at the same time, and more from the world of DJI. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This e...
Feb 12, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This week our roundtable is joined by Autel's director of training, Jon McBride. Jon talks about his time at RMUS, what brought him to Autel, the Dragonfish, the upcoming EVO Nano, competition with DJI, and are drones better if they run on open source software? Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host) Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Canada Jon McBride - Director of Training, Autel For mor...
Jan 28, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This week our roundtable adds one more as Chad Walker from our Utah office joins the podcast permanently to bring perspectives on the U.S. corporate UAV market. Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of BRINC, joins our show this week to discuss why he created the LEMUR S in the first place, the difficulties with modern law enforcement that the LEMUR can resolve, other uses for the LEMUR, and how to survive sudden CEO status. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This epi...
Jan 21, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week our roundtable concludes the podcast premier for our RMUS Blue sUAS Throwdown webinar, and discusses a few of the awards we gave out. You can watch the webinar itself here ; however, before watching, listen to the podcast for more foundational information on the Blue sUAS program, our testing, and some of the participants. This week we will highlight the Teal Golden Eagle and the Vantage Vesper. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode's cast i...
Dec 31, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This week our roundtable of remote aerial system experts assemble again to discuss a recent RMUS Blue sUAS Throwdown webinar, and the extensive testing behind our conclusions. You can watch that webinar here ; however, before watching, listen to the podcast for more foundational information on the Blue sUAS program, our testing, and some of the participants. This week we will highlight the Parrot Anafi USA and the Skydio X2D. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com ...
Dec 24, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 2
For the inaugural episode of Did You Bring the Batteries, we assemble the first roundtable of RMUS experts to discuss how RMUS began, the challenges they faced along the way, how they became a multinational company with the opening of RMUS Canada, and what the future may hold for drones, UAVs, RPAS and robot dogs. This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host) JT VonLunen - President of RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager of RMUS Canada Fraser Hahn - Director of Techn...
Dec 16, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 1
