{"id":9823,"date":"2021-05-06T09:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/drones-with-most-advanced-ai-ever-coming-soon-to-your-local-police-department\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:49:49","slug":"drones-with-most-advanced-ai-ever-coming-soon-to-your-local-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/drones-with-most-advanced-ai-ever-coming-soon-to-your-local-police-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones With \u2018Most Advanced AI Ever\u2019 Coming Soon To Your Local Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Google veterans and backed by $340 million from major VCs, Skydio is creating drones that seem straight out of science fiction\u2014and they could end up in your neighborhood soon. Three years ago, Customs and Border Protection placed an order for self-flying aircraft that could launch on their own, rendezvous, locate and monitor multiple targets on the ground without any human intervention. In its reasoning for the order, CBP said the level of monitoring required to secure America\u2019s long land borders from the sky was too cumbersome for people alone. To research and build the drones, CBP handed $500,000 to Mitre Corp., a trusted nonprofit Skunk Works that was already furnishing border police with prototype rapid DNA testing and smartwatch hacking technology. Mitre\u2019s unmanned aerial vehicles didn\u2019t take off. They were \u201ctested but not fielded operationally\u201d as \u201cthe gap from simulation to reality turned out to be much larger than the research team originally envisioned,\u201d a CBP spokesperson says. But the setback didn\u2019t end CBP\u2019s sci-fi dreams. This year, America\u2019s border police will test automated drones from Skydio, the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that on Monday announced it had raised an additional $170 million in venture funding at a valuation of $1 billion. That brings the total raised for Skydio to $340 million. Investors include blue-chip VC shops like Andreessen Horowitz, AI chipmaker Nvidia and even Kevin Durant, the NBA star. It\u2019s not clear just how fast its drones are selling. Dun &#038; Bradstreet estimates its 2020 revenues were&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Forbes<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2021\/03\/03\/drones-with-most-advanced-ai-ever-coming-soon-to-your-local-police-department\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded by Google veterans and backed by $340 million from major VCs, Skydio is creating drones that seem straight out of science fiction\u2014and they could end up in your neighborhood soon. 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