This reader comes from Skye, a drone start-up company in Xi'an. In April last year, Lei Fengnet visited the company. At that time, their products had already received crowdfunding at Kickstarter. CTO Gui Xiaoxuan revealed that they had started mass production and shipped the product two months later. Therefore, Lei Feng Net did not think that this company will fall so quickly.
Skye Intelligence was founded in February 2015. At last year's CES, they showed the first drone product. In appearance, this product was not designed to look like a Phantom on a bad street, but rather like a crab; Functionally, it has a computer vision following function. At that time, Dobby, Hover Camera and Phantom 4 have not yet been released, so this function is still at the forefront (2016 CES, Tencent and Zero Joint Launch of the UAV). The computer vision follows the function, but this drone has not basically appeared in the market so far). So at the time, their products left a deep impression on Lei Feng, and their expectations were a little bit more than the drone startups.
According to the readers, Skye Intelligence officially declared bankruptcy in December last year. As for bankruptcy reasons, the main reason is that the product backlog cannot be sold, and it is difficult to repay the supply chain funds. At the same time, the company defaulted on employees for 3 months without pay.
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However, although somewhat shocked, it will soon be understood. The main reason is that there have been too many bad news in the UAV industry recently. From December onwards, consecutive companies such as GoPro, Airline, Zero, etc. have announced massive dismissals. Today, the top three global sales of drones are also in Parrot. Announcing the removal of one-third of its staff (about 290 people), plus 3D Robotics, which had already switched off the consumer-grade drone sector and made industrial drones last year, the Chinese and foreign well-known consumer-grade drone companies are basically dead and wounded. According to Lei Feng network and other drone companies to understand that their living conditions are not optimistic, some are also cutting people to reduce operating costs, and some are trying to transform the program, many of them with such a deep qualification of zero enterprise. It can be said that the entire drone industry has been overwhelming, and the number of layoffs or bankruptcies will only increase. Of course, there will be fortunate children.
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