Editor’s Note: This video interview accompanies Steve Lubetkin’s November 2021 CompuSchmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey.
Most of us are familiar with spellbinding aerial videos sweeping across a beautiful landscape as part of most TV shows, news stories, and even TikTok videos as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — usually called “drones” — have gone mainstream as a tool for professional photographers, videographers, and even amateurs willing to get a drone pilot’s license.
But there are other, far more commercial, uses for drones that are likely to revolutionize many industries.
One industry that’s a surprising beneficiary of drone technology is the agriculture industry where small farms and large agri-business “food factory” sites are using drones for precise application of pesticides and fertilizer once spread by crop-dusting planes and helicopters.
Now, a Houston-based company, Hylio (pronounced HEE-lee-oh), is providing automated agriculture drone systems that the company says have already treated hundreds of thousands of acres across the globe. (See more at https://www.hyl.io/.)
In this interview, Hylio CEO Arthur Erickson describes his company’s drone aerial spraying technology and why it’s a breakthrough for farms both small and large.
You can watch the interview in the player below. Read the CompuSchmooze column here.
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