Did You Bring the Batteries?
In-depth discussions with industry leaders about the ever-evolving drone and autonomous industries in North America. Produced by RMUS, a UAV and robotic solutions expert.
Episodes
29 episodes
Flight #29 - Universal Drone Station
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, ...
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Episode 29
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47:22
Flight #28 - Orchestrating UAS Automation
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 compre...
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Episode 28
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50:08
Flight #27 - Enabling Urban Drone Operations
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.Have questions for the experts? Send your ...
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Episode 27
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40:38
Flight #26 - Where Autonomy Meets AI
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 (
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Episode 26
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53:54
Flight #25 - Deep Dive Into Underwater ROVs
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 wave...
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Episode 25
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35:51
Flight #24 - The Qii to Analyzing Drone Datasets
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
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Episode 24
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30:04
Flight #23 - Ice Drone Pilots NWT
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 vie...
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Episode 23
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27:51
Flight #22 - Wildfire Prediction with Fire AI
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, ...
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Episode 22
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38:24
Flight #21 - What Happens in Vegas Stays on Our Podcast
Kevin and Fraser recap the best things they saw at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, including Ascent AeroSystems's new nano-sized coaxial drone, big drones that fold up and fit into backpacks, rugged ...
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Episode 21
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32:14
Flight #20 - Dawn of a New Era of Drone Podcasting
This week the team is joined by drone media mogul Dawn Zoldi. The Dawn of the drone industry gives our team some tips on how to grow a media empire, what the next big drone trends ar...
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Episode 20
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43:56
Flight #19 - Video Games! The Great Equalizer of Drone-Based Surveying
Over the last few months, we briefly mentioned our roadshows across Canada. In Ontario, our open house and trade show took place at our RMUS Canada headquarters, where we hosted a series of inspection and public safety seminars led by various i...
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Episode 19
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39:29
Flight #18 - Ascent AeroSystems’s Spirit UAV and the Blue sUAS List
This week we talk about the unique looking Spirit drone by Ascent AeroSystems, which is hard to describe and define. To help us, we invited Bobby Sakaki from Ascent AeroSystems on the show to discuss the Spirit, which was added to the Blue UAS ...
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Episode 18
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52:18
Flight #17 - The Drone Analyst
For the past 16 episodes, the cast of Did You Bring The Batteries? has gone in-depth on a number of drone products, services and unique use cases (like natural disast...
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Episode 17
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47:29
Flight #16 - The Counter-UAS Episode
For the first time in months, Did You Bring The Batteries? (Powered by RMUS), is back at full strength. Now that everyone is back, we talk in detail about the things we saw over the past few months. In this episode, we're joined by a counter-UA...
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Episode 16
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48:00
Flight #15 - Planning for the Next 5 Years of Training UAV Pilots
The drone industry is always changing, but how do we change with it? One way we will have to evolve is how we approach training. We found a college that is about to redesign its government-approved training program, and lock it in for the next ...
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Episode 15
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37:30
Flight #14 - The Problem With Abandoned Mines
I have made up my abandoned mind, we are talking about abandoned mines this week. With Kevin and Fraser out on roadshow duty, Jacob and I are joined by SRK's Olga Gibbons to discuss the issue of abandoned mines, why they are such a problem and ...
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Episode 14
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36:57
Flight #13 - Using Drones in Large Scale Natural Disaster Relief
Now that a number of the large scale UAV/RPAS tradeshows have come and gone, the RMUS team has reassembled in our studio to discuss what they saw at the first in-person AUVSI...
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Episode 13
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34:17
Flight #12 - The M30 Drone Light Show
With the M30 moving from theoretical object to something that is on store shelves, the RMUS team finally got their hands on DJI's newest ship. That is why we assembled our in-house experts to provide you with our impressions of what this drone ...
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Episode 12
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35:44
Flight #11 - The RMUS Roundtable Discusses the ANAFI Ai, Ducks, Olympics, and More
The first ever RMUS podcast roundtable convened to discuss our hands-on time with Parrot's recently released ANAFI Ai, how baby ducks were saved by a Mavic Mini 2, how the Blue sUAS program might be hurting American drone production, and drone ...
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Episode 11
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41:12
Flight #10 - Extreme Flying on Either Side of the Earth's Surface
This week we talk with two extreme fliers who work on opposite sides of the earth's surface. They explain what it takes to make it in this industry, how they deal with troubling situations that could be fatal, which tools in their toolbox...
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Episode 10
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47:29
Flight #9 - A Walk in the Dog Park with Boston Dynamics
This week we talk with a veteran robot dog integrator, Brad Bonn of Boston Dynamics, about all things Spot. Brad explains why they made Spot the way they did, what Spot is good and bad at doing, some stuff you might expect to see in the future ...
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Episode 9
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43:39
Flight #8 - Universal Compatibility in the Drone Industry with Auterion
This week we talk with a veteran of integrating drones into the toolkits of first responders: Romeo Durscher. Romeo will explain why compatibility between drone and payload manufacturers is the future of the drone industry, the hurdles the indu...
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Episode 8
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34:48
Flight #7 - How Teal Drones Became Golden
This week we talk with the founder and CEO of Teal Drones, George Matus. George lets us know who he designed the Golden Eagle for, why software solutions are important in the drone business, the difficulties of hardware production, and where th...
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Episode 7
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32:39
Flight #6 - How First Responders Are Using DJI Made Drones
This week we talk with veteran first responder, and current DJI employee, Chief Wayne Baker. Wayne recounts how first responders initially found use cases for UAVs in their everyday work. Which specs are the most important for a thermal camera ...
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Episode 6
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56:13
Flight #5 - Autel's Jon McBride
This week our roundtable is joined by Autel's director of training, Jon McBride. Jon talks about his time at RMUS, what brought him to Autel, the Dragonfish, the upcoming EVO Nano, competition with DJI, and are drones better if they run on open...
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Episode 4
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51:53