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Iris Automation is a Y-Combinator startup company building an artificial intelligence-based collision avoidance system for industrial drones and other autonomous flying machines. The company was founded by Alexander Harmsen and James Howard in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The company uses industrial cameras, deep learning, and computer vision on the drone to observe and interpret the world for full situational awareness of the operational environment. Detecting moving aircraft is the first step in developing a safe and robust collision avoidance system. Its technology processes information about intruder aircraft rapidly and its proprietary algorithms make intelligent decisions in real time. The built system determines the safest course of action to avoid accidents based on location, heading, speed, and other factors.
Iris automation has team members from NASA, Boeing and control specialists, robotics, computer vision and machine learning experts.
