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CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL)’s “Octacopter” drone has successfully delivered 50 vials of Covid vaccines to a primary health centre in Karnataka.
What is an Octacopter?
Octacopter is an indigenous medium-class drone developed by National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) a constituent of CSIR.
Features of Octacopter
The drone is made of lightweight carbon fibre with a foldable structure for ease of transportation.
It has unique features like autonomous guidance through dual redundant MEMS-based digital autopilot with advanced flight instrumentation systems.
It can fly at an operational altitude of 500 metres and can carry a payload of 15 kg.
Applications
The drone can be used for the last-mile delivery of medicines, vaccines, food, postal packets and human organs.
It is also integrated with Powerful onboard embedded computers and the latest generation sensors for other applications like agricultural pesticide spraying, crop monitoring, mining survey, magnetic geo survey mapping among others.
Source: This post is based on the article “Multicopter DRONE design & developed by National Aerospace Laboratories- NAL has successfully demonstrated Covid-19 Vaccine delivery at remote location in outskirts of Bengaluru” published by PIB on 15th November 2021.
