Sony establishes a new company related to drone with Japanese robot venture

Mobile phone maker based on 100% stake by Sony "Sony Mobile Communications", Which is a startup that develops robot technologyZMP"A company that develops and provides services using autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) technology in early August 2015"Aerosense Co., Ltd.We announced that we will establish.

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AeroSense Corporation is a joint venture company jointly owned by Sony Mobile and ZMP and plans to develop, manufacture and sell industrial technology combining image capturing by drone and processing of image data by cloud. Using Sony's camera, sensing, communication network and robot technology and ZMP's automated driving technology, robot technology, business experience in industrial fields, etc., it is possible to provide services for industrial services such as surveying, surveying, management and inspection It will start offering from 2016.

The company's outline is as follows, and Mr. Hisashi Taniguchi who is also the representative director of ZMP will take office as Representative Director of Aerosense Co., Ltd.


Sony Mobile hopes to focus on the business development of the IoT market, ZMP aims to expand the robot technology which had been deployed on land until now to the sky field, and by multiplying the technology of both companies, new service The creation of the plan is planned. Also in April 2015Sony invests about 100 million yen against ZMP, And it was reported that an automatic driving car combining Sony and ZMP's technology will appear.