chester
@chesterzelaya
founder @thedroneforge | scaling drone ai | @ucberkeley mecheng + eecs alumn
Announcing Droneforge's $2.5M Pre-Seed led by Outlander, with participation from First In Capital, Tofino Capital, and Shor Capital. Alongside a group of amazing early angels. At @thedroneforge , we have only two missions... 🧵 1/4
AI drones
the answer is: yes
Can i make my drone water the plants in the garden?
from one of our Nimbus research-preview users: “The fact YOU made me, someone with next to ZERO technical ability get a drone to run a program autonomously onto an aviation node is fucking wild. I had to fly these things with my fingers & now you press a button… I’m glad…
privacy is a MUST as we start to scale commercial drone fleets this paper tackles path-planning encryption for multi-agent obstacle avoidance without leaking sensitive data like > customer address > valuable drop off points holy shit so much value add
< Encrypted Drone Navigation in Multi-Agent based Systems > Drone deliveries and multi-agent fleets are scaling fast But with route coordination comes risk -- route data leaks customer locations, vendor relationships, and operational strategy > How can drones avoid collisions…
me realizing I quit my job to work 10x harder for less money and no weekends
my first breathe of air in the morning comes with 150mg of caffeine cheers
11000 thank u guys so much sharing insane clip by u/dr_Alexpid to bless your feeds today
07-21-2025 -- droneforge autonomous drone flies itself into a fan this video has 100% made my whole founder journey worth it i love this shit
new office addition: infinitely looped fpv freestyle videos to show what we’ll be able to do autonomously one day
drones accurately estimating state solely through a downward facing event camera + tiny ConvRNN🤯 no imu's at all. cool to see information theory being pushed to our modern limit
<All Eyes, no IMU: Learning Flight Attitude from Vision Alone> In a recently published paper, researchers ditch IMU entirely and shows a drone flying only using vision from a downward facing event camera A tiny ConvRNN is trained to understand attitude and rotation rates...…
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yeah i’ll believe that when FISH can DRIVE 😒 oh snap wait a minute