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Flyability Shows Off Elios 3 Ultrasonic Thickness Payload at Posidonia 2024

June 4, 2024 by Miriam McNabb 3 Comments

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Flyability and ABS to attend Posidonia 2024 with UT drone Flyability, the market leader for confined space drone inspections, announced today its presence at Posidonia 2024. Flyability will attend the tradeshow in partnership with classification society ABS, who will be at booth 3.101. Posidonia is one of the biggest shipping events of the year - and the ideal opportunity … [Read more...] about Flyability Shows Off Elios 3 Ultrasonic Thickness Payload at Posidonia 2024

Flyability Funding: More than $22 Million for Makers of Elios Indoor Inspection Platform

September 8, 2022 by Miriam McNabb 4 Comments

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Flyability funding got a major boost this week as the company celebrated a  15 million Swiss Franc (CHF) Series C funding round, augmenting their previous CHF 7 million.   (CHF 22 million is currently about $22, 645,000 USD.)  The companies unique Elios 3 collision safe platform for indoor inspection was on display this week on the floor of Commercial UAV Expo in Las … [Read more...] about Flyability Funding: More than $22 Million for Makers of Elios Indoor Inspection Platform

Dark, Dirty and Dangerous: Flyability’s Collision-Tolerant Drone Has Upped the Game for Commercial Applications

April 30, 2019 by Miriam McNabb 7 Comments

It's been a mantra for the commercial drone industry since they got started - if you've got a job that is dark, dirty or dangerous, use a drone.  Swiss-based Flyability designs collision-tolerant drones that can perform visual inspections where even other drones can't fly- into inaccessible spaces like mines, nuclear power tanks, bridge trusses, and into the hulls of ships. … [Read more...] about Dark, Dirty and Dangerous: Flyability’s Collision-Tolerant Drone Has Upped the Game for Commercial Applications

Flyability Joins International CERBERUS Team to Take on the Sub-T Challenge

October 9, 2018 by Miriam McNabb Leave a Comment

Makers of the leading industrial drone for inaccessible spaces, Swiss company Flyability has taken on the DARPA SubT Challenge with international team CERBERUS.  Flyability makes the collision-tolerant Elios, already used in underground and other challenging environments for industrial uses like mining and industrial inspections. The following is from a Flyability press … [Read more...] about Flyability Joins International CERBERUS Team to Take on the Sub-T Challenge

Drones in Mining: A Special Kind of Drone for Inaccessible Spaces

May 16, 2018 by Miriam McNabb 13 Comments

Mining is a growing vertical for the drone industry.  Drones have a lot to offer mining: monitoring of remote operations, measuring stockpiles, and other geospatial applications have been adopted at scale in open mines. But there's an entirely different area of the mine that may get even more benefit from drone technology: inside.  Inspections around dangerous equipment, … [Read more...] about Drones in Mining: A Special Kind of Drone for Inaccessible Spaces

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