Drone flies in crevasseDemonstration from Flyability of a drone designed to investigate difficult environments to explore:Flyability … partnered with the mountain rescue team of the Zermatt Glacier in the Swiss Alps to explore crevasses situated at an altitude of 3’500 meters ASL. These narrow ice caves are inaccessible to all current robotic technologies,and present a enormous risk to human rescuers. Flyability has pushed the boundaries of UAVs with their latest drone, as it was able to fly down into the crevasse and back up to return to the surface and
captured the most stunning footages of the area, and rarely seen by humans. With its spherical,freely rotating protective cage, the drone remains perfectly stable after contacts, and making it totally collision-tolerant and secure to fly close to humans. It was thus capable to easily access this extreme environment while being remotely operated by an untrained pilot. The embedded full HD camera,digital live video transmission and the powerful lighting system allowed the drone to operate in the heart of the mountain glacier, tens of meters below the surface.
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