The first viable alternative to DJI drones?

The first viable alternative to DJI drones? - Anzu Robotics

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Join us in a discussion with Randall Warnas, CEO of Anzu Robotics, a new American drone manufacturer that provides world-class quality drones and offers the first viable cost-effective alternative to DJI drones.
We will discuss how Anzu Robotics is able to improve on DJI's design to make their platform bypass some of the recent Chinese drone bans.
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@THEMANCAVE2023 Ай бұрын

This was great interview and I am so glad someone manufacturing drones has those thoughts and onions. As a DJI owner and operator and Its refreshing to hear a CEO speak with actual common sense and understands that the entire China drone issue is just our government trying to have more control. Also FL is absolutely trash for banning the best drone on the market to save lives

@lauren301 Ай бұрын

With Randall at the helm, I expect good things will happen.

@VicMossPhotography Ай бұрын

Glad to see y'all back. And having Randall as a guest is awesome.

@timvandevender9837 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the great presentation. Intellectual property and patent licensing is a primary business driver for technology industries. Think IBM PC standardization or Qualcomm patents in cellular phones. From a DJI perspective, they can make income from licensing their existing tech while not having any of the manufacturing, resource, sales or regulation liabilities. It's the safest, lowest risk way to make money in perpetuity using existing IP. Anzu Robotics' business model is a logical extension of the drone industry. Building a "local" company to innovate the core technology from DJI's platform to be built and wrapped in hardware/software that is capable of meeting US regulator requirements and modern data security concerns. I really appreciate there are people like Randall that are willing to drive these types of modern business solutions.

@dronespottersinternational9488 Ай бұрын

Great discussion, looking forward to more news about Anzu.

@AtlanticAerials Ай бұрын

Very cool to see you guys back

@Philonic Ай бұрын

What a great video. Thanks for making this, guys!

@DroneXL Ай бұрын

Excited to see how Anzu will do! Good luck, Randall!

@deltaleader71 Ай бұрын

yeah, no geo-fencing is the way to go! The pilot should be able to make that decision...that is why we are part 107 certified.

@PropertyHighlightsTTP Ай бұрын

Keep praying Randall! It will work out! Like this guy a lot!

@n1iex Ай бұрын

Awesome interview thanks!

@jonharis Ай бұрын

Exciting development. Looking forward to watching where this goes. I’m looking forward to evaluating a unit soon.

@gracedbygod2854 Ай бұрын

Great interview!

@revthred Ай бұрын

Awesome to see the efforts from Randall Warnas and Anzu Robotics! Please please move as fast as possible into a M30T style platform (you can call it Rex :). The advantages of the M30T for first responders is huge (IP ratings, redundant safety features, heavier payloads, higher optical magnification, better speaker/spotlight combos, hot swappable batteries, etc).

@NorthsideHawk Ай бұрын

Great interview

@spartanaerialservices Ай бұрын

Anzu Robotics M300 RTK !!! Bring it on…

@maxe_faxe Ай бұрын

I definitely want control over the speaker volume on startup and anytime else the process is going to output sound to a speaker. When I'm out in remote/natural areas, loud speaker sounds are annoying and potentially attract attention I don't want.

@jamiesonallen9214 Ай бұрын

Randall Warnas, thanks for real discussion on the made up Chinese drones issue.

@snowcatcowboy Ай бұрын

Where we would find Anzu's Webpage?

@dgrove81 Ай бұрын

I am a drone photographer and videographer, I work for the Marketing wing of an Architecte/Engineering firm out of Indianapolis. Our office does largely transportation engineering, and we do a lot of work with/for the Texas Department of Transportation . We also have offices in Florida and are developing more projects with the Florida DOT as well. With Texas's recent DIR ban on DJI technology and Florida's ban on DJI drones, myself, as well as others who do surveying, construction inspection, investigative engineering, etc. have been tasked with finding an alternative to DJI drones. For months now, the answer has been "there really isn't one," the closest options being Autel (still a Chinese company) or Parrot (not economically viable for what we do, and still not the quality we would get from DJI). I feel like this is the first real solution I have found for my purposes as Mavic 3 user for photgraphy and video, and once the Aloft software has been able to add on pre-planned missions, I believe our Surveyors and other engineers will be very interested in this.

@apocaly2855 Ай бұрын

So can you use the 4g option on the green mavic 3 look alike or not?

@joetheairbusguy1813 Ай бұрын

You know what irritates me, when I go to a manufacturers website and they don’t say what their product costs. Do better.

@scruffytech Ай бұрын

He said it's gonna be around $5100 for the lower cost drone

@joetheairbusguy1813 Ай бұрын

@@scruffytechI didn’t watch the entire video. It sucks that I can’t get a price (like I can with DJI) until I give them my email and phone #.

@scruffytech Ай бұрын

Well, you will have to buy it from your drone supplier not directly from this company if I understand that correctly. If you're not going to watch the entirety of then oh well, ok. Every single question that can be asked is answered in this video. I put in my time in watching it.

@ivaneberle3972 Ай бұрын

$5100 Raptor/$7600 Raptor T

@stephencarlson6028 Ай бұрын

5500 and I've seen em 7500 even more expensive than the DJI Enterprise yet they ate that these days are about 7500 I think there's like two at 7500

@spartanaerialservices Ай бұрын

Country of origin for solar inspections is just plain silly, I fly this industry every day, and I can tell you that 99.9% of all solar panels are made in China. So what’s the difference if you have a Chinese drone inspecting Chinese solar panels?

@ravens9992 Ай бұрын

I was reading on it today. Hope it operates just as well.

@deltaleader71 Ай бұрын

This licensing deal is reminiscent of DJI's likely deal with Cogito Specta Air. I bet DJI will be working deals like this because of potential data privacy concerns.

@hollycrystal7717 Ай бұрын

please follow youtube's volume guidelines

@KmonCentz Ай бұрын

I want one SOOOO BAD for the business I'm starting... reached out and everything. I REEEEEEALLY hope this drone is just as good cuz inspection and public safety are really important today

@ebinrock Ай бұрын

What do you all think of Skydio drones? How will Anzu compare in feature set, quality, and price?

@ivaneberle3972 Ай бұрын

California has a new Right-to-Repair Law. Will this be integrated into the Anzu Raptor roll-out?

@itoothitooth4943 Ай бұрын

DJI did this deal to improve their image and suppress other competitors.

@itoothitooth4943 Ай бұрын

There would be a new market where DJI drones can be reprogrammed using “blue” software. This would allow conversion of the physical format by replacing the DJI software with “blue” software.

@wstdrone Ай бұрын

What is “blue” and green technology?

@itoothitooth4943 Ай бұрын

Who wrote the software code in your drone? DJI or someone else?

@piXLDroneShow Ай бұрын

He explains that they have a copy of the firmware, frozen in time at the time of the agreement. Aloft uses the code to control where the data goes.

@ivaneberle3972 Ай бұрын

A little disappointed to hear that the fimware is DJI-provided as a frozen-in-time at the time of licensing, with only software (SDK) and presumably software updates provided by Aloft. Firmware is what controls data protocols, transmission and encryption between the aircraft and controller. With the Mavic 3 FW now a couple of years in the wild we would expect this Raptor to be as robust and well-sorted (caveat being it'll be as well-sorted as it can ever be, at launch, WRT firmware). The Smart Controller will no doubt be some version of Android but also frozen in time. So this leaves 3rd party add-on and compatibility (mapping, 3D) and future-proofing somewhat of an open question. Will Anzu sell Raptors in numbers sufficient to ensure there's 3rd party support? Hopefully they will

@sharejesus3448 Ай бұрын

I would love to see a professional model that is not industrial. I do not care for DJI and at the moment I'm using Autel, but I'm not happy with them either. Plus I would prefer to support an American based company. It's something I can afford for Real Estate photography. $7000 is a bit high for real estate photography. Lol

@Mike0193Azul Ай бұрын

We need more competition companies here in the states. We have better ui and software but Chinese products have been winning in engineering, innovation, and price

@richardrachman1990 Ай бұрын

I think he lost me as soon as he said he's not interested in getting on the Blue List. That's what a lot of us need.

@richardrachman1990 Ай бұрын

Especially with thermal :(

@piXLDroneShow Ай бұрын

The Blue standard is a failed standard. Don't even get me started on Green. There's a reason so few are approved for it. What needs to change is the requirements that lawmakers put in place. There's no reason that any drone should be Blue if they aren't used for the military.

@richardrachman1990 Ай бұрын

Regardless of your opinion of it, we still need to abide by it to do research!

@piXLDroneShow Ай бұрын

That's a legislative issue.

@christopherdavis9137 Ай бұрын

Can someone post a link to what blue and green standard mean? I’m not familiar with term… and when I google search… still not sure

@troytmg Ай бұрын

This is great idea. But what is sad is that China is able to outcompete us in the the research and manufacturing. With all our manufacturing and trade laws, no one in the U.S. can

@scruffytech Ай бұрын

NO GEO-FENCING!!! 😁

@juancarlos4 Ай бұрын

For what I see this is just a DJI copy, everyone is trying to kick out DJI out of US market, it’s a shame.

@gnehrenz Ай бұрын

It's not a copy. It's a rebranded DJI drone. The chips inside are DJI..Even the code lists the Mavic 3. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7OHfL1ksdrQk6c.html

@gordongrainger6975 Ай бұрын

It’s likely still a DJI drone so the trumptard republicans will leave DJI alone.

@gregt5057 Ай бұрын

Cost is was to much

@thompaulson5152 Ай бұрын

It's just a corporate get around dji has learned American capitalism better then America

@KarlF12 Ай бұрын

Another company refusing to make consumer drones. How disappointing.

@steveday2022 Ай бұрын

my words exactly!!! this whole thing is ridiculous.

@SlackerU Ай бұрын

It looks like a copy of DJI's products. If anything it's a military solution to the DJI-ban on civilian drones used for military purpose. I'd want that money too but I am on the other team.

@nateteator3901 Ай бұрын

Is this new company still economically viable if Republican Congress members stop lying about DJI information security?

@motomavrick Ай бұрын

Terrible price base. It's cheaper just to stick with DJI. Almost like they are taking advantage of the push against Chines markets.

@piXLDroneShow Ай бұрын

Keep in mind, a company with smaller volume, not manufacturing in China, cannot possibly offer the same pricing as DJI. It is a thermal drone, which are not cheap. Like Randall said, this is not for someone who doesn't need a non-chinese drone.

@motomavrick Ай бұрын

@@piXLDroneShow I get what you're saying. But it shouldn't be marketed aa viable alternative to DJI. It should simply be marketed as an American based "professional" drone. We see those key words and most of us are excited to finally see an American company compete for our private sector dollars. There are already plenty of expensive American made platforms out there that are out of the average consumers reach.

@liggel04 Ай бұрын

Your missing the point, this is a company filling the gap created by stupid legislation for people that need good products.

@motomavrick Ай бұрын

@@liggel04 I’m not missing any point. I know who their customer base is. I’m saying that the video title, marketing, or whatever you call it was misleading. It made it sound like we finally had an all around challenger for DJI. Instead it’s an American partnership with DJI.

@TB-sv3nw Ай бұрын

TOO expensive for my wallet. Get it down to $1K or less...then I'll buy American.

@roronguyen3442 Ай бұрын

my first DJI drone the brand new AVATAR 2 (combo kit with 3 batteries) and I may need a lots of yours guys help , because i am not pro drone , i don't even have my fly permis official to fly that kind category of drone. am i stupid to start with expensive game like DJI 1200 EUROS? I may crashed at my first fly, i got the package today put everything to batteries charged ready for to morrow morning first fly ! wish me luck guys !

@dickbong7499 Ай бұрын

So you bought the rights to DJI’s “about to be obsolete” models… why THAT green? I wrap all my drones bright colors to be more visible, you could have gone safety green or neon orange to make it look more professional but no, you went with Chinese toy green? If it’s my money I’m waiting until the Mavic 4T comes out within the year