Drone-Maker Looks to Shine at Upcoming Houston Expo

Autel Robotics is making ready to showcase its wares at the upcoming 7th Annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit.

The event, to be held in Houston, Texas from 12 through 14 June, will see Autel debut Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) the likes of its transportation and delivery optimized Titan model, and a new Enterprise series drone dubbed the Autel Alpha.

In 2015, Autel Robotics released its first-generation Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), the X-STAR. In short order, the company debuted its EVO series of UAVs—the success of which afforded Autel recognition and burgeoning renown among U.S. consumers. The introduction of the EVO II series in 2020 earned Autel the distinction of having developed and brought to market the industry’s most powerful compact drone, and solidified the company’s favorable reputation among UAV manufacturers.

Comes now 2023, and the unveiling of Autel Robotics’s EVO Max 4T UAV, an intelligent, innovative platform at once suited to commercial, prosumer, and hobbyist applications. The EVO Max 4T’s suite of advanced autonomous flight technologies includes omnidirectional obstacle avoidance and tri-anti interference. The latter feature permits operation of the contraption in busy urban areas inundated with Radio Frequency, Electromagnetic, and Global Positioning System (RFI/EMI/GPS) interference.

The EVO Max 4T is equipped with three high-quality cameras: a 48-mega-pixel telephoto camera with 10x optical zoom, 160x digital zoom, and a ½-inch Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensor; a 50-mega-pixel wide-angle camera with a 1/1.28" CMOS sensor and 3840 x 2160 video resolution; and an infrared camera with a 640 x 512 resolution and 1.2-kilometer ranging distance. The EVO Max 4T also sports a range of intelligent navigation and data acquisition functions, including 3D flight routes, PinPoint Mode, Team Work, Polygon Mission, Waypoint Mission, and Oblique Photography.

Also new for 2023 is Autel’s EVO Nest, which features an automatic charging point and base of operations for the entirety of the company’s EVO Series drones. Designed as an all-weather UAV support station, The EVO Nest offers extended UAV range and operating time. When paired with the Autel’s SkyCommand Center for centralized drone management and mission planning, the EVO Nest is simple and convenient to set up, maintain, and operate. What’s more, the system fits easily into the bed of a standard pickup truck.

Finally, Autel will display its EVO II V3 Series UAVs, as well as the company’s new Dragonfish Standard, a fixed-wing VTOL UAV featuring a unique tilt-rotor architecture and a claimed 126-minute flight-time.

Several of the Autel products to be presented at the 7th Annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit derive of the concern’s expanded Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) solution—a forward-thinking symbiotic system eminently conducive to monitoring critical infrastructure such as energy and electricity distribution networks and petroleum refineries and pipelines. Autel’s ISR solution is equally germane to public safety, traffic monitoring and management, Emergency and Search And Rescue (ESAR) operations, aerial mapping and photography, and education.

FMI: www.autelrobotics.com