Did You Bring the Batteries?

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? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host) Edwin Sanchez - CTO, Votix For more on RMUS visit: YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook

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

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 Engineering and Applied Science For more on RMUS visit: YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook

Curt Lary from Hextronics talks about the universal drone-in-the-box. He tells us once he nailed down the core requirements for a nest (the box), HVAC, opening and closing, charging, infrastructure, and command and control, he could configure it for a 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 podcasts@rmus.com. This episode's cast includes: Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host) Curt Lary - CEO and Lead Engineer, Hextronics For more on RMUS visit: YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook

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 - General Manager, RMUS (host) Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Sam Macdonald - President, Deep Trekker For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus-canada Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

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 RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus-canada Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

One this week's addition of the podcast, a legend of the aviation world, Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways and the show Ice Pilots NWT, joins us to discuss the drone world from the point of view of manned-craft aviators. Mikey discusses operating modern drones around an airport, the realities of automating cargo flights, and the many unexpected ways that drones have changed the world. Plus, Mikey gives us feedback on the drones working in aviation pitches that we came up with. 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 Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Mikey McBryan - General Manager, Buffalo Airways For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

On this edition of Did you Bring the Batteries?  we do eventually 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 the restricted airspace, and the way drones in general can help manage the unpredictability of forest fire season. Before all that we give you all the details, and our thoughts, on the recently released Mavic 3 Enterprise and Mavic 3 Thermal. We also took some time to have an on air podcast planning session, and we decided our end of year event would be the 2nd round of the Blue sUAS round up. If you want to catch up on our thoughts of the industry at this time, you can catch the original round up in two parts as episode 2 (part 1) and episode 3 (part 2) of our show; along with the rest of our back catalogue. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com. Especially the movies you want us to discuss on our future (fictional) movie podcast! This episode's cast includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Robert Atwood - Co-Creator of Fire AI, Hummingbird Drones Inc. For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

Kevin and Fraser are back from the Las Vegas Commercial UAV Show, and they recap the best things they saw at the show, including: Ascent Aerosystems' new nano sized coaxial drone, big drones that fold up so they fit into back packs, rugged drones coming out of India, the upcoming DJI dock, using video to capture datasets, Parrot tactical mapping, and the other noteworthy things that RMUS got their hands on at the show. 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 Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

This week the DYBTB team is joined by the drone media mogul herself: Dawn Zoldi. The Dawn of the drone industry gives our team some tips on how to grow their media empire, what the next big drone trends will be, who to keep an eye on, which companies will have the biggest impact on the industry in the shorted time, and what can be done to control drone traffic when it becomes as popular as cars. We also give our thoughts on the DJI's brand new quad-copter: the DJI Avata.  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 Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Dawn Zoldi - CEO, P3 Tech Consulting For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

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. The first of those we will share here with you is the survey symposium facilitated by industry leader Laurie McBean. Laurie's deep dive into surveying covers the differences between LiDAR and photogrammetry, why you can't get good results from water, and how the key to scanning was actually video games all along. 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 Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Laurie McBean - Geospatial Data Specialist, UAS Matt MacKinnon - President, Unmanned Aerial Services For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

This week we talk about the unique looking Ascent Spirit drone, which we describe as a flying cucumber during this week's show. This is not meant as an insult, but as a descriptive noun chosen to clarify the unique physical attributes of this ship. Perhaps a better word could have been chosen if we were better acquainted with this unit, but since there is more to learn, we invited Bobby Sakaki to join us on this week's show to discuss the Spirit. Bobby works for Ascent Aerosystems, who make the Spirit, and together we discussed the ship itself, why it was designed the way it was, who it could use the Spirit to its maximum potential, and many tangents about the drone industry as a whole. 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 Bobby Sakaki - Head of Product, Ascent Aerosystems For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

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 and what the next evolution might look like. David will also be launching the annual DroneAnalyst industry survey and looking for industry members to take part. If you are interested in helping David and his team identify the current state of the industry, participate in the survey here.  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 David Benowitz - Head of Research, DroneAnalyst For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

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. 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've gotten the stick time to really judge it. Also explored is the swarm flight system that lets you control multiple Teal Golden Eagle aircraft at once. Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode casts includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS Chad Walker - Director of Training, RMUS Jacob Bradford - Certified Drone Technician, RMUS Dave B. - Counter UAS Expert For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

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 their government approved training program, and lock it in for the next 5 years; so 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 Ted Strazimiri - Professor of Drones, Fanshawe College For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

I have made up my abandoned mind, we are talking about abandoned mines this week. With Kevin and Fraser out on road show duty, Jacob and I joined by SRK's Olga Gibbons to discuss the issue with abandoned mines, why they are such a problem and what companies like SRK can do about them with the help of UAVs. Jacob was also talking with Pieter Stockmayer about the brand new hazardous inspection drone, the Elios 3; and since Peter just happened to be in the office at the time, we forced him to speak to us on the record about Flyability's new drone. Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Jacob Bradford - Certified Drone Technician, RMUS Olga Gibbons - Rock Mechanics Engineer with SRK Pieter Stockmayer - Area Sales Manager from Flyability's Denver Office 

Now that a number of the large scale drone/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 first ravaged the world. 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 offices, and Dan Cyr of the Global Medics joins us to explain how they make horrible situations a little better by using drones where natural disasters have just occurred. This episode casts includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Jacob Bradford - Certified Drone Technician, RMUS Dan Cyr - RescUAV Coordinator, Global Medics For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

With the M30 moving from theoretical object, to something that is on store shelves; the RMUS team finally get their hands on DJI's newest ship. That is why we assembled our in house experts to provide you with our hands on impressions of what this drone can do and how it behaves in the real world. We also invite KC Sealock, the Lead Pilot of Pixis Drones, onto our to discuss the growing phenomenon of Drone Light shows replacing firework displays. KC explains the complexities of have 500 drones in the air at one time. This episode casts includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Chad Walker - Director of Training, RMUS Jacob Bradford - Certified Drone Technician, RMUS KC Sealock - Lead Pilot, Pixis Drones For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

The first ever RMUS podcast roundtable is 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 casts includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Courtland Penk - President, Osprey Integrity Ltd Matt MacKinnon - President, Unmanned Aerial Services For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav

This week we talk with two extreme fliers who work on opposite sides of the Earth Surface.  These extreme fliers explain to us what it takes to make it in this industry, how they deal with troubling situations that could be fatal, the tools in their toolbox that they rely on heavily, and how a Boston Dynamics Spot robot ended up on YouTube because it ended up at a bar.  Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to podcasts@rmus.com This episode casts includes: Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS Courtland Penk - President, Osprey Integrity Ltd Matt MacKinnon - President, Unmanned Aerial Services. For more on RMUS you can reach us at: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/rmusuav LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/rmus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rmusuav