Drones have become commonplace in agriculture. “We’ve been at it for about ten years,” says Helio CEO and co-founder Arthur Erickson. “In that time, they’ve gotten bigger, they’re going to keep getting bigger.” Erickson’s goal is to turn drones into do-it-all workers that require as little human input as possible. Currently, the operator still needs to be present to change batteries and swap out the payload. “We are working on an automated tender station that’s going to charge the drone; it’s going to solve the battery, it’s going to refill the payload, fix the payload and do all that just from one automated station,” said Erickson. “Then the human doesn’t even physically have to be there, the human could be remotely monitoring.”
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