Seagate is targeting drones and robots as it looks to add its storage technologies to new devices.

“There’s a huge opportunity there,” said Patrick Ferguson, a product manager at Seagate. “I’m really excited about it.”

Robots and drones generate a lot of data, but have limited internal storage to retain all that information. For example, drones with multiple cameras generate a lot of video, but just one CompactFlash or SD card to store all that data may not be enough.

“In a 20 minute flight you’re talking hundreds of gigabytes, not tens of gigabytes,” Ferguson said.

Data increasingly is being uploaded to the cloud for analysis. Gigabytes of data can’t be uploaded to the cloud in real-time when a drone’s in flight, so it’ll have to sit on the device until it can be extracted and uploaded.

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