Work for businesses on the move in their UAV inspection, surveying, or mapping activities may get a little bit easier with the unveiling of HexTruck – a pickup-mounted automated drone hangar platform compatible with any off-the-shelf craft.
HexTruck is the result of a collaboration between autonomous UAV dock manufacturer Hextronics and FlytBase, which provides drone-agnostic software solutions to automate and scale aerial operations. The HexTruck unit takes the earlier Hextronics Global rapid-refueling battery-swapping station for a variety of low-cost commercial drones and goes farther, making that portable system truly mobile with a new core component called Global Advanced.
HexTruck is designed to be fitted into the bed of a pickup truck and used for launch, landing, and automated drone maintenance within the hangar from that position. As such, companies using UAV for business can use equipped road vehicles as all-in-one solutions for getting their…
