Drone Startup Aptonomy Introduces the Self-Flying Security Guard
Published at Techcruch.com
August 22, 2016
by Lora Kolodny
“Aptonomy, Inc. has developed drone technology that could make prison breaks, robberies or malicious intrusions of any kind impossible for mere mortals.
… Aptonomy co-founders Mihail Pivtoraiko and Siddharth Sanan are well-known in the industry already. Both attained doctorates from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University prior to starting Aptonomy.
Pivtoraiko previously worked at NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin and Intel. And Sanan’s soft robotics and human-robot safety research was the inspiration behind the robot Baymax in Disney’s Big Hero 6.
The duo is part of the current Y Combinator batch of startups, and have raised some seed funding through the accelerator.”