CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL)\u2019s \u201cOctacopter\u201d drone has successfully <\/span>delivered 50 vials of Covid vaccines to a primary health centre in Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n Octacopter is an indigenous medium-class drone developed by <\/span>National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) a constituent of CSIR.<\/span><\/p>\n The drone is made of <\/span>lightweight carbon fibre with a foldable structure for ease of transportation.<\/span><\/p>\n It has unique features like autonomous guidance through dual redundant MEMS-based digital autopilot with advanced flight instrumentation systems.<\/span><\/p>\n It can fly at an operational altitude of 500 metres and can carry a payload of 15 kg.<\/span><\/p>\n The drone can be used for the last-mile delivery of medicines, vaccines, food, postal packets and human organs.<\/span><\/p>\n It is also<\/span> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Multicopter DRONE design & developed by National Aerospace Laboratories- NAL has successfully demonstrated Covid-19 Vaccine delivery at remote location in outskirts of Bengaluru<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published by <\/span>PIB on 15th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories(NAL)\u2019s \u201cOctacopter\u201d 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… Continue reading Multicopter DRONE design & developed by National Aerospace Laboratories- NAL has successfully demonstrated Covid-19 Vaccine delivery at remote location in outskirts of Bengaluru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[6575,10485,402],"class_list":["post-146734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-drones","tag-multicopter-drones","tag-robotics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704803164},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is an Octacopter?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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