$3.5M FOR MINE DRONE START-UP

摘要

Queensland-based Emesent, a drone autonomy spin-out from CSIRO, has raised $3.5 million in venture capital to commercialise its first product, Hovermap. The technology automates the collection of valuable data in underground areas too dangerous or difficult for people to survey or navigate, such as stopes or ore passes in mines. Drones installed with Hovermap can be deployed in GPS-denied environments without a human controller to create 3D maps, and record gas readings, videos and images.