Host Randy Goers and Charles Acknin, CEO and Co-Founding father of Skyways talk about how the corporate is popping autonomous cargo drones from experimental know-how into reliable, scalable logistics techniques.
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Charles Acknin is Co-Founder and CEO of Skyways. Skyways is constructing unmanned plane techniques designed to revolutionize autonomous cargo transportation. In contrast to many rivals nonetheless in growth, Skyways’ plane are operational in the present day — carrying significant payloads over important distances for each navy and business clients. Primarily based in Austin, Skyways is now shifting towards mass manufacturing of its autonomous plane, constructing confidence by way of real-world cargo missions that would in the end allow future passenger purposes.
At Skyways, Charles leads the corporate’s strategic imaginative and prescient and oversees operations, product growth, and progress initiatives in autonomous aviation.
Previous to Skyways, Charles co-founded and served as CEO of Elixir Labs. Earlier than that, he was a Senior Software program Engineer at Google, the place he labored on the corporate’s search engine for practically 5 years and spent a yr advancing Google’s mission of common accessibility.
Earlier in his profession, Charles held engineering roles at Oracle, Cosworld-Asia in Shanghai, and Amadeus. He additionally participated in Google Summer time of Code, contributing to the open-source model management system Subversion.
Charles holds a Grasp of Science in Software program Engineering from Oxford Brookes College and a Grasp of Science in Pc Science from SUPINFO.
On this episode of the Drone Radio Present, Charles shares how Skyways is popping autonomous cargo drones from experimental know-how into reliable, scalable logistics techniques.
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