Trends and advances in Robotics and Automation are being closely watched in software and hardware space. However, it is especially hard for integrators to bring together software and hardware to meet industrial needs.

Aria Insights, a drone data analytics company recently announced that it is shuttering operations. The company confirmed the move in a tersely worded statement from Lance VandenBrook, the former CyPhy CEO offered to TechCrunch:

Aria Insights has ceased operations effective March 21, 2019.

The Massachusetts-based startup changed its name from CyPhy Works to Aria Insights in January. The tethered drone company was aiming to use the rebranding to focus on integrating artificial intelligence and machine language into its drones.

The company was founded in 2008 under the name The Droid Works, with robotics pioneer Helen Greiner as one of its founders. The company’s tethered aerial vehicles were used in the agriculture, defense, law enforcement, and energy industries.

The founders were trying to evolve the company by “Changing the Game”:

As a workforce multiplier, we empower users to access the unreachable, see the imperceptible and synthesize information across facilities and operations. Our remote partners allow users to digitize their world. We are motivated and inspired by changing the game for our users, removing people from dangerous places, and ultimately saving lives.

Last year a few prominent drone startups shut down including Google funded Drone startup Airware and Rethink Robotics, Pioneer of Collaborative Robots

The move by Aria Insights appears to be an abrupt one, with little to no information offered to external parties.