This survey drone takes safety seriously

New Zealand-based drone manufacturer Altus Intelligence wants to make sure its US$39,000 survey drones don't end up as rubble. Most of Altus' customers use its flagship drone, the Long Range Extreme Weather (LRX), for construction and engineering surveying/mapping and expect a rugged, dependable vehicle to get the job done. That's where the LRX's three separate fail-safe systems come in. The first is a triple auto pilot design, meaning that if anything goes wrong with one of the GPS streams, the other two will take over. The LRX is also armed with eight staggered propellers.