February 23, 2023
The company, which developed a system that allows drones to perform complex landings in a completely autonomous manner, will establish an operations center in New York with the support of the Genius NY accelerator
Wonder Robotics Company the Israeli company, which provides autonomous navigation solutions for drones, is launching a new activity center in the city of Syracuse in the state of New York. The new branch will be established with an investment of 500 thousand dollars, an amount awarded to the company following its participation in the New York accelerator Genius NY, which focuses on the worlds of drones and robotics. Besides the financial support, Genius NY Will assist the company in relations with companies and entities in the field.
Wander Robotics stated that this expansion is part of the company’s strategy to expand operations in the American market, which is the largest and most significant in the world in the field of drone-based smart services such as couriers. The Syracuse area is a center for technological development, infrastructure and regulation for drones. In this area is located the headquarters of the NUAIR organization, one of the seven research centers supported by the FAA (American Civil Aviation Authority). It is a non-profit organization whose goal is to integrate unmanned aerial vehicle systems into the US national airspace in order to allow commercial drones to be operated widely and safely.
Wonder Robotics’ first product, WonderLand, is a system that connects to any eVTOL type drone (takes off and lands vertically) and allows it to perform the landing task completely autonomously, without the need for a human operator – even in unmapped terrain conditions. The system performs its operation in two stages. First, the system performs, using two-dimensional semantic algorithms, an analysis from above of the surface, and locates a target area suitable for landing. In the second stage, the system uses a three-dimensional sensor and machine vision algorithms, while landing, to make sure that there are no obstacles such as cables, bumps or people endangering the landing or the environment. It is an independent system based on visual analysis only, without the need for an external communication channel or GPS. The system makes it possible to land with a precision of a few centimeters, and therefore allows the drone to land safely even on mailboxes and docking stations.
“The American center located in one of the largest UAV centers in the USA, where Oxysystem supports companies from the field and will allow us to better support our American customers and be active partners in the implementation and assimilation of the product in their service”, said Idan Shimon, CEO and co-founder of the company. “The center, which will bring together the customer service, training, and maintenance system, alongside demonstrations of the WonderLand system and its marketing to new customers, the company’s first product will help make the drone services more autonomous, safer and thus much more efficient: reducing the number of people involved in operating the service will allow its expansion to hundreds of thousands of drones in the urban landscape”
The operation center of Wonder Robotics in the USA, which will open in March 2023, is designed to serve the company’s strategic American customers such as Spright. Air Methods drone company, North America’s largest provider of medical logistics services. As a pioneering company in the field of short and medium deliveries with dronesSprite plans to operate hundreds of drones by 2024. Another strategic customer is a drone company of a large grocery chain in the US that will add Wonder Robotics’ autonomy technology to the drone delivery service it already operates at several dozen sites in the US and will serve millions of customers in the next two years.
Shimon explained that “the market for drone services is expected to grow to 63.6 billion dollars by 2025 and I believe the number will be even bigger. The more drones take a more central place in everyday life, the more significant the economic impact of the market will be.”
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