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January 8, 2015

Drone market resembles Silicon Valley's early days

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
AP Business Writer

DANVERS, Mass. — To see the future of drones, head up the hill at the intersection of Industrial Drive and Electronics Avenue. Inside a bland brick office building, the team at CyPhy is working on tethered machines that can fly nonstop for days and pocket-sized drones for search-and-rescue missions.

It's not a fancy building. There's no giant aerospace or defense company here in Danvers, north of Boston. Just small teams of computer scientists and mechanical engineers working in spaces called “The Playpen,” “The Den” and “The Department of Failed Good Intentions.”


 
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