CyPhy 'Unlimited' Flight Time Security Drone Examined

They have been using tethered drones for bridge inspections in Missouri.

Interesting things, and what I reacted mostly in this article was iRobot Roomba, I have one, awesome machine that doing the work extremely well - but every time I see that one moving around I'm thinking, who's watching me and my apartment on the the iRobots camera and who is using the map of my apartment... and for what purpose...

No direct need to mention that all outgoing traffic from this device to the "cloud" are blocked, by my own paranoia;)

This company is out of business, from a Bloomberg report on Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms:

Helen Greiner, known for developing the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, founded CyPhy in 2008 to develop a drone tethered to a grounded power source that could fly for days at a time for observation and communication. But investors pressured her to begin commercial sales before she was ready, she said in an interview. She stepped down as CEO, then left the company in late 2018 to take a job advising the U.S. Army on drones.

At the start of the year, CyPhy announced it would change its name to Aria Insights and transition from hardware to drone data analysis software. In March, after plowing through $39 million of venture capital, the company shut down.