EP 109— Skyways' Isaac Roberts On Mass-Producing Autonomous Cargo Drones For Contested Logistics
Isaac Roberts spent four years in the Navy, built and sold a computer vision company, co-founded a robotics startup, and then joined Skyways to tackle the missing middle in autonomous aviation: long-range cargo drones big enough to matter but small enough to mass-produce. With a $37 million Air Force contract to reach full rate production, Skyways is building hybrid electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) with 1,200 nautical mile range and modular payloads for contested logistics.
Isaac tells Dave Graff why the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is where commercial drone…
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