Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

Re:Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines by neuralfog on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:30AM (#46573715)

We have done automated utility inspections for the past few years. Computer vision is not a problem any more. When we were starting we had to annotate thousands of images. Today some use cases require less than a 100. More interesting problems are pre-field planning, sagging, or BLOS compliance

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Re:Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines by agvoltair on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:57PM (#46577870)

Hey - Avi here, cofounder of Voltair.

We should chat- I'd love to hear more about your computer vision model. My email is [email protected] if you want to shoot me an email.

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Re:Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines by rurban on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:00AM (#46598040)

We annotate via qwen, and feed that back into training our vision ML. High accuracy.

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