#258 Adam Bry - Why China Fears Skydio’s Rise in AI Drone Technology
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Adam Brie, welcome to the show, man. Very excited to be here, Sean. Very excited to have you.
What do we have? Oh, shit.
We have a third joining us. So this is the Skydio R10.
That's detected.
That's detected. No way. So this is our brand new indoor tactical drone designed to get into dangerous situations. You don't have to send a person. And as you can tell, it's got a speaker on here. It's detected a threat.
Attention.
Attention. Please exit the area immediately.
I repeat, please exit the area immediately. Is somebody behind that, or is that programmed in there?
Uh, so you can do two way communication. Um, so you can actually like perch this thing and establish two way communication. If you've got a bear barricaded suspect or something like that, or you can just have prerecorded audio where it says whatever you want it to say. No shit.
Yeah. That is, that is bad. So in case you haven't figured it out, we're talking about all things drones today. You founder of Skydio and, um, Yeah, you guys are doing all kinds of badass stuff with drones, so I can't wait to dig in. So this one is an indoor drone and will rove around whatever you put it in.
Yeah, I mean, we basically built it because a lot of the most dangerous work that our customers do happens indoors. Like in law enforcement, you got a barricaded suspect, you don't know what's in there, you don't know if they're armed or not. And typically, you'd have to send a police officer in, you know, gun drawn, they don't know what they're heading into, and this is the root cause of a lot of tragedies. So if you can send a drone, you get perfect situational awareness, you can deescalate the situation, you can establish two-way communication. So the general mantra is like send the robot, not the person. So this is a brand new product for us. Dude, that is cool.
Can you put a gun on that thing? I know you can. I know you can.
Well, in the U.S., it is illegal to put any kind of weapon on a drone. Well, that's dumb. And fly it in civilian airspace. Just kidding. But you should talk to our friends at Axon about the possibility of putting a taser on it. Axon. I think we have talked to them. Maybe. Yeah, they're the inventors of the taser and the body camera. Dude, so nobody's seen this yet? Well, this product is brand new. We just announced it about a month ago, and it's just getting into customer hands now. So it'll be a steady build, but it's actually flown real missions.
What innovative features does the Skydio R10 drone offer?
in the hands of some of our early access customers.
Congratulations. Who is the market for this? Is this going to be in everybody's home? So initially- Shopping malls?
Yeah. Initially, it'll be heavily law enforcement. And right now, drones are used by- indoor drones like this would be used by high-end SWAT teams. And we certainly expect that the R-10 will be used by SWAT teams in high-stakes situations. But our real goal with this is to build something that's much more accessible for kind of everyday patrol officers, because they're the ones that oftentimes find themselves in the most dangerous situation. They don't have backup. They're out there by themselves. And so this thing really becomes like a flying robot assistant. So we expect it to be heavily adopted in law enforcement. But we also... are seeing incredible interest in critical infrastructure inspection. So we work with energy utilities that have all kinds of gnarly indoor infrastructure in generation plants and so on, where they have to do really dangerous, slow, expensive inspections.
You know, they have to shut the whole plant down. They have to build scaffolding. Somebody has to go and like climb around to look for cracks and defects. And so for them, just being able to put a drone in the air, fly around, see this stuff super quickly, super efficiently is is a total game changer. And then Over time, we also expect this to be adopted by the military for confined space type situational awareness work. Wow.
Wow. Man, your customer, I mean, we had talked about this off camera right before the interview, but my old buddy, Jake Johnson, who apparently did some work for you guys.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:05–3:13
2
What innovative features does the Skydio R10 drone offer?
3:13–8:14
3
How do drones enhance law enforcement operations?
8:14–16:13
4
What are the implications of drone technology for public safety?
16:13–1:14:38
5
What advancements in drone technology does Skydio showcase?
1:14:38–1:15:36
6
How does Skydio's drone technology differ from traditional drones?
1:15:36–1:16:41
7
What role do drones play in public safety and law enforcement?
1:16:41–1:18:00
8
How does Skydio plan to compete with Chinese drone manufacturers?
1:18:00–2:34:09
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