At Perceptual Robotics, our drones are named after women whose work shaped science, engineering, and computing.

• Ada – after Ada Lovelace, pioneer of early computing
  • Bea – honouring Beatrice Shilling and Beatrice Hicks, trailblazers in aeronautical and space engineering
  • Dot – inspired by Dorothy Vaughan, Dorothy Spicer and Dorothy Buchanan, leaders in mathematics, aviation and civil engineering
  • Eve – named after Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician, computing pioneer and STEM advocate

And we’re not stopping there.

We’re already working on Flo, our newest development named after Florence Violet McKenzie – Australia’s first female electrical engineer and a pioneer in radio communication. In 1939 she founded the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps, training over 12,000 servicemen and 3,000 women in Morse code and wireless telegraphy at her own expense. Her life’s work was about equipping people with the capabilities they need, which is exactly what Flo will be designed to do: put professional-grade inspection capability directly in the hands of asset owners and service providers in the easiest way possible and with the minimum field equipment required.

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Today we celebrate the women whose legacy continues to power innovation.