Apollo Robotics has announced the immediate availability of early access to its Apollo Development Partner Program, which is designed to deliver a fully automated, autonomous surveying UAS for professionals.

Apollo Robotics says that it can quickly digitize and reconstruct any worksite into a “highly accurate and instantly actionable” 3D model from a single scan by combining multi-sensoring LiDAR, HD and thermal cameras with artificial intelligence.

“For the past three years, our team, working in stealth mode, has studied the surveyors’ challenges and bootstrapped a disruptive and affordable solution that is tailored to achieve scalable digital transformation of the surveyor’s business model,” says Rob Cammack, CEO of Apollo Robotics.

“This experience has allowed us to fully grasp the very needs of lead practitioners and develop a compelling, user-friendly solution to most challenges of today’s surveyors.”

This week during CES 2019 in Las Vegas, the company will showcase its Surveyor Version 1 UAS, as part of the Techniplas Open Innovation Program.

“Today, our Version 1 platform enables the digitization of an entire worksite integrating mission-critical capabilities to deliver an affordable, surveyor friendly, full-stack solution,” Cammack adds.

According to Apollo Robotics, the total cost of purchasing and operating emerging UAS technologies is prohibitive to most companies within the surveying industry. The process of integrating site planning, data collection, and analysis is also considered complicated, labor-intensive, and lacks the required automated workflow that is needed to achieve convincing scalability.

“Autonomous surveying can be cost prohibitive, time-consuming, and require scarce expertise that is already in high demand,” explains Avi Reichental, executive chairman, Apollo Robotics.

“By applying and integrating deep learning, 3D digitization and multi-sensoring, Apollo is addressing this multi-billion-dollar opportunity by delivering the first ever affordable solution that improves a surveyor’s overall competitiveness and bottom-line.”

Having already secured more than $2 million in pre-order purchase commitments, Apollo Robotics is launching the Apollo Development Partner Program for qualified industry participants, as those qualified early access participants can purchase the Apollo Surveyor Version 1 UAS platform for a one-time cost of $53,800. That cost includes FlightService mission planning software for Development Partners.

The program is offered to the first 25 commercial applicants to qualify, with special benefits to Development Partners including complementary delivery and training, free software upgrades and reduced subscription rates for data platform services, among other benefits.

“We believe that by providing early access of our program to qualified surveying and engineering companies, we can jointly revolutionize how professionals gather, handle, and process 3D data,” the company says.

“Apollo’s industrial-grade platform is fully automated, designed to fly unmanned, and is readily available for use on-site and on-demand, enabling professional surveyors to access premium aerial data in a faster, safer, more efficient, and cost-effective way.”