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Auterion at the PX4 dev summit 2020
Auterion was the main sponsor this year and contributed presentations from ten Auterion engineers
Higher safety and more efficiency for VTOL operations with the new Auterion software releases
We are excited to announce the next releases of Auterion Enterprise PX4 as well as Auterion Mission Control.
NXP and Auterion collaborate to develop integrated hardware and software solutions
NXP® Semiconductors and Auterion announce a collaboration to develop integrated hardware and software solutions for the unmanned aerial systems industry.
Downtown VTOL flight delivering COVID-19 samples to a laboratory
Auterion Partner Quantum-Systems to deliver COVID-19 samples to a laboratory
Auterion announced as finalist for AUVSI XCELLENCE awards
Auterion named as a finalist in the XCELLENCE Awards by AUVSI.
Bringing a Pilotless Future and Autonomous Delivery One Step Closer to Reality
If you’re watching Westworld Season 3, you’re seeing a vision
The upcoming American Security Drone Act
What the upcoming American Security Drone Act could mean for your business
Enabling BVLOS missions for the African Drone Forum
The Lake Kivu Challenge event promotes the safe implementation of electric cargo.
Auterion leads contributions to PX4
Auterion, with over 51% of contributions is leading the charge in the progress of PX4.
Introducing Auterion 1.2
Auterion 1.2 has a major focus on further improving the safety of flight operations.
One step forward in autonomous air delivery
With rapid technological advances in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capable drones, aerial delivery and cargo transportation within urban areas and remote locations are rapidly becoming a reality.
Enabling navigation with limited or no GPS signal
As part of the next Auterion Enterprise PX4 release, our autonomy team developed an integrated visual information system, as an additional data source, for positioning in limited or no GPS signal environments.
Auterion and Avy collaborate on BVLOS VTOL
Auterion and Avy teamed up to develop the Avy Aera, an advanced long-endurance VTOL drone, designed specifically for medical delivery, public safety, sustainable logistics, and wildlife conservation operations.
Smarter autonomous UAV missions
This past month, Auterion’s autonomy team focused on improving one of the core safety features of our flight control software: not colliding into obstacles that are on the flight path, to give pilots more confidence when flying.
Enabling long-range VTOL with GE
Earlier this year, we teamed up with GE Aviation to integrate the Auterion Enterprise PX4 operating system into GE Aviation’s Unmanned Aircraft System avionics platform. Today we are bringing to market the first long-range VTOL in our product portfolio.
InterDrone 2019 Summary
InterDrone 2019 was a success. Our co-founder Lorenz Meier held a keynote and three software engineers held technical sessions on software development, hardware reference designs, and insights on how automatic flight log analysis can improve the reliability of UAVs.
Introducing MAVSDK
MAVSDK is a set of libraries in different programming languages that provide a high-level API to MAVLink, providing easy to learn programmatic access to vehicle information and telemetry, and other operations.
PX4 Developer Summit 2019
On June 20 – 21 2019, the first-ever PX4 Developer Summit took place at ETH Zurich. Over 200 developers flew from all over the world to meet the largest drone community in the world.
Former AeroVironment VP Joins Auterion as US GM
We are very excited to welcome David Sharpin as our GE General Manager to support growth in North America.
Auterion Enterprise PX4 Release 1.1
The latest Auterion Enterprise PX4 release 1.1. enables cargo drones, industrial inspections, and intuitive camera control.
Red Hat’s SVP Joins Auterion’s Board of Directors
We are very excited to announce that Marco Bill-Peter, SVP at open source company RedHat has joined Auterion’s Board of Directors.
Open Source Development as Public Good
Open standards and open source are the foundation of modern software development – including the Internet. However, the Internet did not happen by itself.
2nd and 3rd Place Winners at AUVSI Xponential 2019
Awarded the 2nd and 3rd place for best fleet management software and detect and avoidance solutions respectively.
$2M Contract with DIU and Teaming Agreement with GE Aviation
The respective commitments show the increased trust of U.S. Gov and major corporations in the open source PX4 ecosystem.
Auterion Enables Impossible Aerospace to Launch New US-1 Drone
The US-1 drone will be running Auterion Enterprise PX4 and will support the aerial imaging needs of law enforcement agencies and first responders.
Drone Workflows in 2019
Real-time work tools have transformed how enterprises get things done – at Auterion we believe that drone workflows for drone operators make drones safer and more reliable.
Contribution Rankings to PX4
In 2018 Auterion was responsible for at least one-third of the total contributions to the PX4 ecosystem. Have a read at the technology improvements that Auterion brought to the community.
PX4 Roadmap 2019 Webinar
PX4 is becoming an industry standard, adopted by most of the players in the drone industry. The key maintainers of the community presented the 2019 roadmap of the largest open source drone community.
MAVSDK Webinar Recap
The webinar on the SDK was a lesson on how to write apps and control PX4 powered drones from a convenient SDK. The SDK supports different programming languages and can be used on mobile, desktop and servers.
A summary of InterDrone 2018
InterDrone was the chance to present our product, announce the closing of our seed investment and show the work done in the last months for our customers and for the PX4 community.
Auterion Launches OS for Commercial Drones
InterDrone, Las Vegas, NV, Sep. 4, 2018 – Auterion, today launched its enterprise drone operating system and announced that the company raised $10m in seed funding from leading investors.