The Greater Chennai Corporation started using drones to fight the mosquito menace. The civic body has taken three drones on rent. The drone is operated by trained pilots sent by the Anna University. The drones are 45 kg in weight and have two tanks. One tank is loaded with three litres of petrol and the other with 10 kg of larvicide.
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Skylark Drones Raises $3M In Pre-Series A Funding Round
Mrinal Pai (left) and Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy in their Bengaluru office
Skylark Drones, an Indian drone platform company, announced that it has secured USD $3 million in a pre-series A funding round to strengthen its product offerings and fuel international expansion. The funding round was co-led by investors InfoEdge Ventures and IAN Fund with participation from AdvantEdge Founders, Fowler Westrup, Redstart Labs, IKP and Vimson group. Continue reading
Zipline Raises $250M
Zipline has raised $250 million in new funding to help us accelerate the development of a new model for instant logistics. Continue reading
FlyingBasket Delivers Radio Equipment in Switzerland
On 14th June 2021, FlyingBasket’s remotely piloted multicopter FB3, equipped with an automatic cargo hook, transported radio equipment weighing up to 80 kgs across a canyon in Davos Wiesen, Jenisberg, in a pilot mission for a Swiss service provider cablex. Continue reading
Albania to Purchase Drones from Turkey
Bayraktar TB2
An additional budget of more than 8 million Euros was allocated for the priority project of the Albanian Ministry of Defense for the purchase of UAVs, “within the scope of the agreement with Turkey and measures to increase territorial control and national security”. Continue reading
IAI Sells Drone Guard Systems to South Asian Country
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) though its ELTA Systems group is delivering dozens of Drone Guard (CUAS) systems to a country* in South Asia in a deal, worth tens of millions of dollars (USD). Continue reading
IAEA Harnesses Drone Technology to Monitor Radiation at Contaminated Uranium Sites in Central Asia
An emerging technology combining a drone with a highly sensitive gamma-ray detector will be deployed in coming months to monitor radiation at contaminated uranium legacy sites in Central Asia. These sites are former uranium mining and processing areas in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and this advanced drone technology will support the safe and secure monitoring of radiation levels at these sites. Continue reading
London Air Ambulance in Near Miss with Drone
An air ambulance helicopter came within yards of colliding with a drone over London as it flew a critically-ill patient to hospital. The remote-controlled craft hovered just below the chopper as it circled above the Royal London Hospital, a report has revealed. Continue reading