Stay Untethered is a media platform providing in-depth analysis, interviews, and podcasts on drone and mobile robotics technology, strategy, and business. It features content from industry practitioners, including hands-on product reviews and exclusive event coverage like XPO24, offering a practitioner-driven perspective on the sector. The platform aims to teach readers how to think about the industry.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
The mobile robotics and drone sector is dominated by technologists, yet there is a lack of resources for sharing industry insights, failures, and victories that shape the field. This creates a void in thought leadership and informed analysis about the technology, strategy, and business aspects of the industry.
Solution
Stay Untethered is a platform for analysis and debate on technology, strategy, and business related to mobile robotics and drones. It features articles and podcasts from industry practitioners, including executives, engineering leaders, lobbyists, venture capitalists, and drone service providers. The platform covers in-depth product reviews, exclusive event coverage, and interviews with key industry figures, such as a deep dive into the IF800 Tomcat enterprise UAS and a look at AVSS's new Means of Compliance for parachute systems. Its aim is to teach people how to think about the industry as opposed to what to think, promoting intellectually and factually grounded discussions.
Target Audience
The primary audience includes professionals in the mobile robotics and drone industry, such as executives, engineering leaders, lobbyists, venture capitalists, and drone service providers, as well as pilots and other technologists seeking deeper industry insights.
Features
- Articles and podcasts from practitioners with direct experience in building vehicle platforms, policy, and investment
- Product reviews and hands-on analyses of hardware like mapping cameras, gimbals, and enterprise UAS platforms
- Exclusive event coverage, including interviews and sneak peeks from industry conferences like Exponential 2024
- Video interviews with company leaders, such as CEO and cofounder Josh Ogden of AVSS and cofounder Adam Bilmes of Inspired Flight Technologies
- A focus on strategic and business analysis to complement purely technical content