A Grays Ferry-based drone startup called Exyn Technologies is sending its drone underground next week to scour the walls of a Latin American mine guided only by its onboard sensors.

With no pre-loaded maps or a GPS signal, the drone will gather data that will let the University of Pennsylvania spinout build 3D models of the mine’s structure and spot possible safety risks guided by the company’s exynAIsoftware.

“The best way to characterize this if we were blindfolded and were told not to remove the blinfdold,” said CEO Nader Elm. “In the absence of GPS, it has to perceive its environment by using different sensors and building maps of the environment and its relationship to that environment.”

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