Building a Defence Against Drones
Notes de l’épisode
SDTH Winner (3 Month Challenge) Vaikesh Manimaran, Maelstrom
Key Points:
- Real-time defensive systems force hard trade-offs between speed, accuracy, cost, and reliability - there's no perfect solution, only chosen compromises
- Working directly with operators and defence experts surfaces problems and constraints that pure lab development would never reveal
- If the prize funding is being used to accelerate MAELSTROM's development beyond the hackathon prototype