The EU-funded AURORA project aims at connecting technologies and key actors to foster the adoption of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). Focusing on emergency-related applications, Robodrone participated in development of intelligent, urban autonomous flight solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and self-piloting passenger-carrying VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft.

The role of Robodrone in the EU Erasmus+ co-funded project is to create, test, and subsequently integrate into school educational programs of vocational education new modules that focus on rapidly developing areas of digital technologies - drones and virtual reality. New joint qualification standards for job specialisations “UAS Developer and Operator” and “Virtual Reality Programmer and Developer” have been defined and our drone operation training content can be found at https://digisplatform.eu/

The aim of the conference was to provide a unique forum for urban transport practitioners, NGOs, academics, policy makers and urban planners to discuss how to transform urban mobility within the framework of the theme “Moving people and goods more sustainably”. The Urban Mobility Days conference was jointly organized by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility & Transport (DG MOVE) and the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.

In 2016 the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) defined three drone categories: open, specific and certified. The MoNIfly project targets the open and specific categories by proposing a drone traffic management system based on mobile network infrastructure. The 3 year project started in 2017 and its purpose was to find innovative solutions to reduce risk of collisions of drones with static obstacles, other drones or aircraft/helicopters.

In mid-2015 Robodrone signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Czech Mountain Rescue Service to develop an integrated solution to detect people buried by avalanches. Our Avalanche Scan Set searches for acoustic signal, the signal is transmitted to the headset and the markers (flags) are released manually via the radio control station. More than 90% of people buried by avalanches survive if dug out within 15 minutes. In short, when it comes to avalanches, time is of the essence.

ŠKODA AUTO is pressing with Industry 4.0 principles: at its Mladá Boleslav plant, the Czech car manufacturer is testing a drone that can identify and count containers outside the factory from the air. The drone is a result of collaboration between the ŠKODA brand’s logistics department and Robodrone, and is paving the way to implementing future drone-assisted stocktaking operations.