Dropla Tech ApS

Big News at Dropla Tech! We are honoured to announce that the European Space Agency - ESA has awarded Dropla Tech ApS a contract to study navigational and georeferencing resilience of drone swarm operations in GNSS denied/degraded environments for humanitarian demining application. Humanitarian demining operations in Ukraine are conducted in GNSS degraded environments. Where unexploded ordnance is preventing the safe passage of civilians, it is essential that we have the precise coordinates. The Swarm platform ensures these capabilities. By using satellite technologies, Swarm allows us to cover larger areas more quickly, with more accurate positioning of potential ordnance through on-the ground localisation services. Most importantly, Swarm keeps people out of danger, using robotics to complete operations in a safer manner. The life-saving potential of this project is not limited to demining, but could also be applied across a range of humanitarian use cases including drones as first responders, search and rescue services and disaster response applications. By developing precise positioning and navigation algorithms, we aim to unlock new levels of autonomy for coordinating drone swarms out of line-of- sight and in cluttered environments. We're proud that ESA has recognised Dropla's expertise in autonomy, sensor fusion, and resilience engineering so that we can lead this innovation for social impact in Ukraine. I want to thank our incredibly talented team for securing this opportunity to push the boundaries of the possible. And a special mention to our collaborators at ESA Space Solutions for supporting us with advancing this essential capability. If we say - we do! 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Aske N., Kim Jesper Jørgensen, Lars Appel Haahr, Dr. Dieter Lederer, Björn Pötter, Charlotte Wetche, Søren Elmer Kristensen, Niels Erik Haug-Larsen, Justin Zeefe, Deborah Fairlamb, Demine Ukraine

Dropla Tech ApS is looking forward to DALO Days 21 st. and 22nd. of August. All set up and ready to go! Looking forward to showing our UGV solution in the flesh, coming straight from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Come and visit us at the StartUp area. Andreas Siggaard and Claus Lodberg Christensen from Hecto Drone have helped set up the 12m display wall for Custos Robotics ApS, Hecto Drone , Dropla Tech ApS and BlinkTroll Robotics. We have decided that all 4 companies are coming together to display, that we are part of the strategic partnership of CenSec - Center for Defence, Space & Security and Odense Robotics The display wall have been designed by our chief of design - illarion Karnaukh and it looks great! Our Brothers in Arms Øystein Hatlestad Hovland and Kenneth Skorpen from BlinkTroll Robotics are going to be present! A special thanks to Charlotte Wetche and Jeppe Icedor Petersen from CenSec, and Søren Elmer Kristensen from Odense Robotics Come and have a talk with us. We got a war to win.

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi We're thrilled to welcome Dropla Tech ApS to the Odense Robotics StartUp Fund! This Danish-Ukrainian startup is on a mission to tackle one of the world’s most urgent challenges: demining Ukraine's vast, dangerous landscapes. With innovative use of drones and robots, Dropla Tech aims to reduce the time required to clear landmines from 70 years to just 12, and at a fraction of the current cost. V'yacheslav Shvaydak, Ph.D., CEO of Dropla Tech, has moved the company’s headquarters to City of Odense, the heart of Denmark’s robotics industry, to accelerate the development of this life-saving technology. Already being tested in Ukraine, their solution not only promises to save lives but also to restore crucial agricultural land, ensuring food security for millions. Welcome to Odense, Dropla Tech — your work is a beacon of hope in these challenging times. We look forward to supporting you on this incredible journey. Learn more about this development in the official press release from Odense Robotics StartUp Fund:  https://lnkd.in/dDcPebGD #OdenseRobotics #StartUpFund #DroplaTech #Innovation #Demining #Ukraine #Robotics #TechnologyForGood

Dropla Tech ApS will be participating in the Dalo Industry Days 2024, the largest defense industry exhibition in Denmark, organized by Forsvarsministeriets Materiel- og Indkøbsstyrelse. The event takes place in Ballerup, Denmark on August 21-22, 2024, hosting over 500 exhibitors and 6,000 participants from around the world. We look forward to meeting you at our stand, located in the Start-up area, right next to BlinkTroll Robotics, Hecto Drone and Custos Robotics ApS.

Dropla Tech ApS is celebrating its first birthday. A year ago Danish Business Authority has officially registered our company. On the photos you shall see how it all started... and how it is going 🇺🇦🇩🇰💪 We have gained momentum, that some of my Danish friends and colleagues deem unmatched for the scene. While I write this, in high spirits, I wish to express my gratitude to the Kingdom of Denmark 🇩🇰, accepting us and supporting in all our endeavors. As we speak, our Clover-1, our unmanned ground vehicle for vegetation removal, is undergoing certification and testing phases under supervision of The State Emergency Service of Ukraine and State Special Transport Service of Ukraine - two main mine action organs of Ukraine 🇺🇦. Soon to hit deming operations. Special gratitude to the Demine Ukraine office, for making cooperation and testing accessible and seamless. Human beings that work in Demine Ukraine are driven with the same mission as us - to see Ukraine without landmines. They pawed the way for economically efficient land release with easy track for innovations. Proud of the work our hardware team is pulling off, under the rigours gaze of Max Tkachenko, our Head of Engineering. While our cheap UGVs remove vegetation and take care of area reduction, we mature our detection solutions, developing collaborative UAV swarms and multi-modal sensor fusion. Signal processing and AI team is doing tremendous work training 10 individual neural networks for a variety of sensory data. Dropla is on the road to become the biggest holder of training datasets for Optical landmine detection - 1.8m labled frames in Q22025. From a heart driven idea to a soon certified UGV solution in one year. I wish I could share more news now, but can't. Stay tuned in August. And our credo is: if we say - we do! To the efficient land release we go. Mads Bendt Øjvind Hulgaard Mario Zimmermann Björn Pötter Dr. Dieter Lederer Michael Bube Thomas Herbst Lars Appel Haahr Kristian Skaarup Aske N. Pedro Basto Niels Vejrup Carlsen Thomas J. Howard Kateryna Drozd Ihor Bezkaravainyi #deminingUkraine #mineaction #landpreparation

We are proud to be engaged in activities that lead to Ukraine without landmines. Working within the initiatives of Demine Ukraine and Ministry of Economy of Ukraine ensures alignment for the current and the future goals of the mine action in Ukraine 🇺🇦. #UkraineWithoutLandmines

#Eurosatory To say that this was mind-blowing - is to say nothing. Thank you to the Danish companies, CenSec - Center for Defence, Space & Security, Forsvarsministeriets Materiel- og Indkøbsstyrelse, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for making the Danish presence a resounding success. Now Danish innovation and ingenuity reached key decision-makers from around the world. As for Dropla Tech ApS - I had extremely positive engagements that will translate into upcoming projects and partnerships, that you would hear about later. The unique constellation of Dropla and its full Access to the training and testing facilities in Ukraine, alongside cooperation with Ukrainian regiments brings a unique pull for partners. I am glad that by these small steps we are making a difference. A small one, but a difference nonetheless. This is a game of resources, and every dime and effort counts. Stay tunes for more news about us breaking ground in Ukraine 🇺🇦 with a solution that would bring efficiency and capabilities into demining, challenging status quo. Thank you, Kenneth Skorpen, Björn Pötter for being there! We are Denmark! 🇩🇰 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

Two years of full-scale war. All this seems like a nightmare when you let your mind comprehend what is actually going on. Ukraine has been living and working in unfathomable conditions for more than 730 days. I just want to ask you to support human beings that are fighting on behalf of the whole Europe. Children love all kinds of things... but there is no child in the world who would say I like war. This fact alone is enough. We are Ukrainians and we want this menace to seize existing. We thank the Defense Forces for every new day, for freedom and opportunities. We thank them for Ukraine. We pay respect and honor to the fallen defenders. We are strong together. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

What a year it's been for the demining scene and Dropla Tech ApS! In a mere 9 months, we have gained ground, literally. Today we're thrilled to announce our dedicated 300+ target testing ground, Dropla-Hub, is established near Dnipro. This provides a vital foundation to validate hardware, calibrate sensors, and create datasets to train AI capabilities. Also, our amazing robotics team, which we all in Dropla cherish, in a mere 4-month timeframe, have delivered the Beta of Dropla Uni - a vegetation removal UGV to assist with safer land preparation. While still in the early stages, missing automated mission planning and eyes, this shows our commitment to practical solutions for the field. Stay tuned for testing with Ukrainian government organs - SESU and DSST. But the main achievement, without a doubt, is the testing site. As it unlocks a road to bring us closer to our final North star ⭐ goal of sensor-agnostic landmine detection AI to enable faster, more reliable land release. With ground truth datasets created in Dropla-Hub, we are gaining on AI capabilities not only for localization but classification of threats. And we invite teams, engaged in landmine detection and sensor manufacturers, to come, validate, calibrate and gather Ground Truth with us on the most comprehensive target collection in the real environmental conditions. So the Bottomline is: We're inspired by the path ahead. Each step takes us closer to a Ukraine free of landmines. With these building blocks in place, the future looks bright for pioneering swarm automation and AI in humanitarian mine action. More to come in 2024, Godspeed ✋ Героям Слава! #landminedetection

Right now, V'yacheslav Shvaydak, Ph.D. is present at the most important demining conference in the world @ Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 🌍 Leaders in the sector are sharing insights from day to day operations, focusing on breaking the limitations in continuous innovation adoption. It is clear that automated operation planning and land release automation, alongside remote sensing integration into technical surveying is the main center of attention. We shall share the updates from the conference in a separate post. Godspeed 🇺🇦🇩🇰 #demining #GICHD