REGENT Rising: Co-founder and CEO Billy Thalheimer on the latest progress

I get so incredibly hyped when I think about the awesome progress REGENT has made over the past few months.

Building and testing hardware in the real world is hard - so it makes it all the more sweet when things work.

We now have our drone Seaglider - Squire - doing fully autonomous operations and carrying payloads at military exercises. That represents a huge effort by our software and perception teams to get Squire reliably doing end-to-end missions itself.

We’ve gotten our large platform - the Viceroy prototype - all the way up to takeoff speed at ~50 mph! The level of engineering precision, control redundancy, and safety architecture is just unbelievable.

And - in prep for our big next step of production - we opened our quarter-million sqft manufacturing facility. Right now its a big empty canvas. Soon we’ll fill it wall-to-wall with Seaglider production.

Team is rolling on all cylinders. This is why I got into this industry. Could not be more excited about what’s ahead.