AUTEL ROBOTICS!: Ready to meet Max?

lukappaseidue · Dec 30, 2022

https://twitter.com/x/status/1608447877260386313

Wayne Maine · Dec 30, 2022

lukappaseidue said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1608447877260386313

Another week and the next cat will be out of the bag.

OldBlueHeron · Dec 31, 2022

It’s probably a 4/3 to compete with the Mavic 3. Yawn.

vr-pilot · Dec 31, 2022

OldBlueHeron said:
It’s probably a 4/3 to compete with the Mavic 3. Yawn.

I have an idea but I may not tell

BadMadEd · Dec 31, 2022

360° camera for drone or new drone with 360° cam?

vr-pilot · Dec 31, 2022

BadMadEd said:
360° camera for drone or new drone with 360° cam?

Yes, a true 360° gimbal cam drone having commercial image quality for real time unobstructed views with zoom and propless full panos would be great. But I don't know if this will be included or possible here.

OldBlueHeron · Dec 31, 2022

It’s an Evo 2 version 3 with a 4/3.

Dave Pitman · Dec 31, 2022

They hired a competent software engineer.

lukappaseidue · Dec 31, 2022

Dave Pitman said:
They hired a competent software engineer.

Who?

claudius62 · Dec 31, 2022

The invisible Man

Autelpilotsnumpty · Dec 31, 2022

Dave Pitman said:
They hired a competent software engineer.

And her name is Maxine

Doc52 · Dec 31, 2022

vr-pilot said:
Yes, a true 360° gimbal cam drone having commercial image quality for real time unobstructed views with zoom and propless full panos would be great. But I don't know if this will be included or possible here.

I have that with my Yuneec already!

Dave Pitman · Dec 31, 2022

lukappaseidue said:
Who?

That was my just guess / hope for their big announcement. It was not a statement. And, it is what Autel dearly needs. But, no sign of that happening. The Autel Evo 2 Pro / Enterprise has been stuck with beta firmware for months. The V.3 is not any better off. More hardware that they can't support will not help Autel succeed.

rcee · Jan 1, 2023

Man, looking forward to this !

Eagle928 · Jan 1, 2023

Dave Pitman said:
That was my just guess / hope for their big announcement. It was not a statement. And, it is what Autel dearly needs. But, no sign of that happening. The Autel Evo 2 Pro / Enterprise has been stuck with beta firmware for months. The V.3 is not any better off. More hardware that they can't support will not help Autel succeed.

You nailed it. Autel Robotics NEEDS more help in their software development department. They make good products in hardware but the software is always so slow to catch up.

vr-pilot · Jan 1, 2023

Eagle928 said:
You nailed it. Autel Robotics NEEDS more help in their software development department. They make good products in hardware but the software is always so slow to catch up.

They are actually hiring (in India) on Linkedin. Maybe someone over here is capable?
HTML5 / JS / React & Vue - Full Stack Developer

vr-pilot · Jan 1, 2023

Dave Pitman said:
That was my just guess / hope for their big announcement. It was not a statement. And, it is what Autel dearly needs. But, no sign of that happening. The Autel Evo 2 Pro / Enterprise has been stuck with beta firmware for months. The V.3 is not any better off. More hardware that they can't support will not help Autel succeed.

Here is an exert from a DroneDJ interview with Maxwell Lee (general manager of Autel Robotics) nearly a year ago:

(quote) So, as we enter 2022, Lee has high hopes for Autel Robotics, and he lays out his plans. “We will continue to develop the EVO III drone and possibly some heavy-lift platforms to make our ecosystem more robust. The same goes for the Dragonfish series, whose multiple platforms will continue to be nurtured. We’re getting requests from pretty much every direction to expand our offerings, but one big technology that we’re looking into is autonomy systems. I’m particularly inclined toward autonomous drone swarm technology for security applications like border security, patrolling, site monitoring, etc. (unquote)

Link: How Autel Robotics hopes to shape the future of drone industry

I think an EVOIII with just the EVOII V3 out right now could be less likely than the part "... and possibly some heavy-lift platforms to make our ecosystem more robust".
Earlier in that interview it is being said:
(quote) It also explains the growing focus of drone makers on the enterprise sector, with “consolidation” being the key phrase. “We positioned the EVO II as a bigger Mavic Pro but a smaller M300; it can fulfill the requirements of both consumers and professional users. (unquote)
But instead of a bigger enterprise platform it could also be a specialized smaller sized drone, i.e. full (top/bottom) 360° pano cam etc.

vr-pilot · Jan 1, 2023

Doc52 said:
I have that with my Yuneec already!

I also have flown Yuneec drones (H480 and H520) for years and I liked the idea of exchangeable payloads and endless 360° obstacle free view, below the drone at least.
I actually used the H520's endless rotation capability for fawn thermal cam searches flying "lawn mower patterns". This way the look down vision kept perfectly stabilized while the drone made its turns above the camera gimbal. Unfortunately the "successor" H520E does not even have 180 ° freedom (about 210 ° would have been enough for "detangling" the "lawn mower sequence"...)

vr-pilot · Jan 1, 2023

BadMadEd said:
360° camera for drone or new drone with 360° cam?

Coming back again to your post (and while it is still some 4 days time to speculate):
The teaser image shows this "bull's eye" and my first impression was that of a strobe light LED lense. But actually it could really be a pano lens like in the GoPro MAX:

So maybe in fact a top and bottom mounted 360° pano camera drone with all props nicely being suppressed from the image in real time?
That would be a real innovation at least when it would meet high quality live transmission and recording standards and added features like real time (HQ) zoom, head tracking, intuitive AR steering using OBS etc.

Maybe this is also the reason why it is called MAX? (It could also be in honor of Maxwell Lee (general manager of Autel Robotics))

(Photo GoPro MAX by https://gopro.com/de/de/shop/cameras/max/)

Eagle928 · Jan 1, 2023

vr-pilot said:
Coming back again to your post (and while it is still some 4 days time to speculate):
The teaser image shows this "bull's eye" and my first impression was that of a strobe light LED lense. But actually it could really be a pano lens like in the GoPro MAX:
View attachment 15415 View attachment 15418
So maybe in fact a top and bottom mounted 360° pano camera drone with all props nicely being suppressed from the image in real time?
That would be a real innovation at least when it would meet high quality live transmission and recording standards and added features like real time (HQ) zoom, head tracking, intuitive AR steering using OBS etc.
Maybe this is also the reason why it is called MAX? (It could also be in honor of Maxwell Lee (general manager of Autel Robotics))
(Photo GoPro MAX by https://gopro.com/de/de/shop/cameras/max/)