Project air bus airlines developing a last-mile package delivery system using drones; North American company’s eVOLT (drones capable of accommodating passengers) Lift Aircraftalready offering tours in some cities of this country as a tourist attraction; or unmanned cargo helicopter developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) They have something in common beyond their flying abilities. All use autopilots developed by Alicante. flushwhich has become one of the benchmarks in the industry and aims very high.
The company is already producing around thousand of these devices, however, the business plan envisages climbing up to this number. multiply by 100 in the next six years, This coincides with the last expected departure from the industry. To prepare for this leap and gain visibility, the firm has chosen to go public last April, for now. Euronext Access, Although with the intention of climbing to growth. It also received a capital injection at the beginning of August. 7.5 million euro by fund Axon Partners.
Behind this signature aeronautical engineer and the current CEO of the company, David Benavent. After finishing his degree, he went to work for several companies in Madrid developing “phase zero” projects for guidance, navigation and control. European Space Agency. He was also about to finish his doctorate and, he said, because he was so focused on the preliminary stages, he had trouble not always seeing the results of his studies fly away.
At that time, the drone industry was starting to gain strength and he decided to throw himself into it. He traveled to Canada and the United States and ended up here. Georgia Tech UAV Laboratoryis one of the leading laboratories in the development of this technology. But the land was attracting him—both he and his wife—and they wanted to return to their native Alicante.
That’s when the idea of starting his own company started to bother him. The first project aimed to transfer it to the civilian world. guidance technology Who uses the bombs he met through his colleagues in the North American lab? Specifically, the first product Embention was born with, Guided pumps for firefighting.
But the idea didn’t quite work, time passed, and as Benavente put it, the company needed to “sell something, start generating revenue.” Therefore, they decided to take advantage of the guidance technology they were developing. other types of aircraft And they found their niche.
And compared to a view of a pilot using a drone often from afar, the majority of devices used for any application in industry or agriculture today fly solo. scheduled tasks. Of course, Embention autopilots also allow for mixed driving, helping to stabilize or keep devices in the air when the pilot goes off the controls.
The list of projects the company has participated in continues to grow. 500 clients in portfolioalmost all abroad. Among the most prominent AirbusWith the aforementioned project for the development of parcel deliveries, Israeli IAI or the Japanese Sling Y toyota, through its SkyDrive division, where it wants to develop a flying car together. In this sense, in addition to the drones themselves, one of the growth avenues that Embention has pinned its hopes on is eVOLT, i.e. drones capable of transporting humans, where a multimillion-dollar market is expected in the near future. the future. until now.
Source: Informacion
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