Pyka

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Autonomous electric airplanes

Summer 2017Founded 201775 peopleAlameda, CA, USA

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Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.

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Pyka develops autonomous electric aircraft for agricultural application and cargo, offering fully autonomous, long-range, multi-mission UAVs with zero-emission capabilities. Their Pelican series aims to reduce operating costs and increase productivity in aerial application and cargo transport. The company emphasizes autonomy, efficiency, and safety in its autonomous aircraft technology.

Pyka provides fully autonomous electric aircraft designed for agricultural crop protection and cargo transport. Key products include Pelican 2, an autonomous crop protection aircraft with higher payload and efficiency for aerial application, and DropShip, a long-range, heavy-lift UAV for multi-mission operations. The aircraft operate with autonomous flight capabilities, enabling multi-mission functionality and low-emission operations for challenging environments. Their technology highlights redundancy, reliability, and autonomy to achieve safer, cheaper, and cleaner aerial tasks.

Who it’s for: Agricultural customers requiring autonomous crop protection and aerial application, and organizations needing autonomous cargo transport in challenging environments.

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