Episodes

  • Flight #29 - Universal Drone Station
    Jul 6 2023

    Curt Lary from Hextronics talks about the universal drone-in-the-box. Having nailed the core requirements of a nest (the box), including enclosure, HVAC, opening and closing, charging, infrastructure, and command and control uplink, he could then configure it for a wide variety of drones. Scalability and cost-effectiveness are the key benefits, and the system is configurable for a wide range of UAVs.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Curt Lary - CEO and Lead Engineer, Hextronics

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    47 mins
  • Flight #28 - Orchestrating UAS Automation
    Jun 28 2023

    In this episode of Did You Bring the Batteries, we welcome Edwin Sanchez from Votix, the groundbreaking platform changing the world of drone automation. Votix is a hardware-agnostic solution that delivers comprehensive drone automation, orchestration and remote operation capabilities. Our discussion covers effective strategies for managing integrated systems, live streaming flight videos to anyone, anywhere, remotely operating drones, risk reduction, and more. 

    Have questions for the experts? Send your emails to info@rmus.ca.

    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Edwin Sanchez - CTO, Votix

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    50 mins
  • Flight #27 - Enabling Urban Drone Operations
    Jun 8 2023

    Josh Ogden of AVSS joins us in this episode to discuss urban drone operations and the advancements and challenges surrounding their integration into our cities.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Josh Ogden - Co-founder and CEO, Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions

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    41 mins
  • Flight #26 - Where Autonomy Meets AI
    Mar 3 2023

    In this episode, we launch the RMUS Autonomy Lab. To mark this special occasion, we speak with two of our Lab partners, Johann Beukes (Levatas) and Scott Nokleby (Ontario Tech University), about drone autonomy and AI applications.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Johann Beukes - Levatas, Chief AI Officer
    Scott Nokleby - Ontario Tech University, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

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    54 mins
  • Flight #25 - Deep Dive Into Underwater ROVs
    Feb 10 2023

    This week the team looks at remotely operated vehicles used for inspection in dark, dirty, dangerous places humans don't want to go. That's right, underwater inspection. Our guest is Sam Macdonald whose curiosity about what lay beneath the waves of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay led her to co-found Deep Trekker, a global leader in submersible ROVs, utility vehicles and pipe crawlers.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
    Sam Macdonald - President, Deep Trekker

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    36 mins
  • Flight #24 - The Qii to Analyzing Drone Datasets
    Nov 3 2022

    In the decade since writing the first SFOC to fly a drone in about 2012, Michael Cohen has been keeping pace with the rapidly evolving UAS industry, transforming Qii.AI into an artificial intelligence development company that takes building inspection to another level.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS (host)
    Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
    Michael Cohen - CEO, Qii.AI

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    30 mins
  • Flight #23 - Ice Drone Pilots NWT
    Oct 24 2022

    A legend in the aviation world, Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways and the show Ice Pilots NWT, joins us this week to discuss UASs from the point of view of manned-craft aviators. Mikey talks about operating modern UASs around an airport, the realities of automating cargo flights, and the many unexpected ways drones have changed the world.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
    Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
    Mikey McBryan - General Manager, Buffalo Airways

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    28 mins
  • Flight #22 - Wildfire Prediction with Fire AI
    Oct 7 2022

    In this episode of Did you Bring the Batteries?  we discuss Fire AI and how this program can be used to help track forest fires quicker and more accurately by deploying drones; however, not until we discuss jumping out of perfectly good planes over raging fires, flying BVLOS in restricted airspace, and the way drones in general can help manage the unpredictability of forest fire season.

    Before we delve into Fire AI, we give you all the details, and our thoughts, on the recently released Mavic 3 Enterprise and Mavic 3 Thermal.

    We also had a quick on-air podcast planning session and decided our end-of-year event will be the second installment of the Blue sUAS round-up. Listen to the 2021 Blue sUAS round-up in two parts The Great Blue sUAS Test (Part 1) and The Great Blue sUAS Test (Part 2), along with the rest of our back catalogue.

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    This episode's cast includes:

    Bryan Calhoun - Podcaster in Command (host), RMUS
    Fraser Hahn - Director of Technology, RMUS
    Kevin Toderel - General Manager, RMUS
    Robert Atwood - Co-Creator of Fire AI, Hummingbird Drones Inc.

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    38 mins