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May 2007 - Chris Anderson starts DIYDrones.com while building his Lego mindstorm base UAV.
Sep 2008 - Jordi builds traditional helicopter UAV able to fly autonomously and wins the first Sparkfun AVC competition.
June 2010 - APM 1 flies first autonomous and scripted mission in SW (post)
2010 - APM1 released by 3d Robotics
Aug 2010 - Jani/jDrones ships first DIY quad frames which were adopted as the original standard
April 2011 – First fully autonomous Copter mission flown by Jason at Sparkfun AVC
Nov 2011 - AutoTester is created by Tridge
Oct 2012 - First TradHeli autonomous mission by Rob Lefebvre
Dec 2013 - BeaglePilot project created by Víctor Mayoral Vilches and Siddharth Bharat Purohit to port APM codebase to Linux.
Jan 2013 - ArduPilot code moved from google code to github
Sep 2013 - Flymaple board support by Mike McCauley, Tridge
Aug 2014 - First Plane flight on Linux board (Pixhawk Fire cape)
Oct 2014 - First report of Plane being successfully used in search & rescue including finding a missing light plane in Florida.
May 2015 - First documented multi-vehicle flight using only a single ground station (first three, then fifty!).
June 2015 - Parrot Bebop port’s first successful flights
March 2016 - 3DR ceases direct funding of ArduPilot community as it cuts jobs.
Oct 2016 - Copter-3.4 release including object avoidance.
Aug 2017 - Rover-3.2.0 released “onion” architecture, new layered rate and speed controllers, skid-steering vehicle support, SmartRTL
Oct 2018 - Copter-3.6.0 released with ChibiOS support, support for many smaller autopilots, DShot ESCS, Follow mode
Aug 2019 - ArduPilot flies over the North Pole, Video
Spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic which swept the world, 2020 saw a number of digital firsts from APM Terminals.
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APM competitors
| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE2 Construction | 2009 | $1.1M | 13 | 3 |
| MES Holdings | 1994 | $1.2M | 700 | 24 |
| MGC | - | $520,000 | 50 | 53 |
| Aspen Group | 2003 | $76.7M | 7 | 70 |
| Walton & Company | 1989 | $44.1M | 100 | 9 |
| The Porter Co. | 1945 | $61.4M | 83 | 57 |
| O'Connell Electric | 1911 | $110.0M | 550 | 35 |
| The Skillman | 1972 | $17.5M | 150 | - |
| Hoffman Construction | 1922 | $1.4B | 938 | 276 |
| Collier Youth Services | 1927 | $1.6M | 50 | 26 |
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