Garcia: Commercial drones must be engineered around their specific payload
Martin Garcia · 660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire? · May 15, 2017 · at 13:22
Flix Systems founder Martin Garcia explains to Nathan Latka why Flix builds custom drone hardware rather than using generic off-the-shelf drones.
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“Usually, people think that they buy drones, and then they think of the payload, but it's usually the other way around. Whatever you want to do, you have to think of what the payload is, and then you build the drone around that.”
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