Adam Bry

I want to use my time today to talk about an entirely different kind of drone use, much closer to home, that's already having life-saving impact.

We're building towards a future where the default expectation for every emergency is that a drone shows up in a few seconds to provide targeted information, get better outcomes for everybody.

My guess is for many of you, drone is a scary concept.

It might evoke images of weapons in Ukraine, in the skies over the Middle East, where these things are creating damage and devastation at a massive scale.

Ukrainians reported last month 96% of the casualties they inflicted on Russian forces were done via drone strikes.

Now, this is a terrifying new reality on the battlefield.

It's also one that we can't afford to ignore in the West.

But I want to use my time today to talk about an entirely different kind of drone use, much closer to home, that's already having a lifesaving impact.

And I think the best way to understand it is just to show it to you.

So I'm going to demonstrate the robotics technology live here on stage.

So we ...

are in Vancouver, but I am connected to a drone in Tokyo.

So I'm going to click the launch button.

And a real drone, this is all live, a real drone is going to launch itself on the other side of the Pacific.

And I can just control it right here from my laptop.

So it's a little bit like playing a video game.

But I can fly around.

I can look and see whatever I want to see.

So the thing that allowed me to do this is called a dock.

Looks like kind of an intergalactic grill.