Sony who will own 50.005% & ZMP who will own 49.995% are expected to jointly found ‘Aerosense Inc’ in early auguest 2015, with Sony’s camera, sensing, telecommunications network & with its advanced robotics technologies will be leveraged with ZMP’s automated driving & robotics technologies.
Sony is not going to sell drones directly but will lease them to businesses for industrial use such as surveying measuring & inspecting.
Commercial drones that are capable of holding advanced photography & video equipment, have already proven a massive success in movies & documentaries, Innovation in aerial robotics is fueling massive growth in the commercial drones industry & is expected to grow to an estimated £813m ($1.27b) by the year 2020.
Aerosense Inc is expected to begin rolling out its services early 2016.