Robotic Skies to service Avy’s growing eVTOL drone fleet under new agreement

Robot­ic Skies and Avy — Drones for Good, a Dutch drone man­u­fac­tur­er, are to devel­op a field sup­port pro­gramme for Avy’s grow­ing fleet of long-range autonomous life­sav­ing air­craft.

It aims to keep the Avy fleet opti­mal for crit­i­cal med­ical and human­i­tar­i­an flight oper­a­tions around the world.

Based in Ams­ter­dam, Avy has been devel­op­ing emis­sion-free drones since 2016 for urgent med­ical trans­port, sup­port­ing emer­gency ser­vices and nature pro­tec­tion. The company’s flag­ship air­craft, the Aera, is an autonomous fixed-wing eVTOL drone designed for beyond visu­al line of sight (BVLOS) mis­sions.

Brad Hay­den, Founder and CEO of Robot­ic Skies, said: “Drone sys­tems like the Avy Aera are built to with­stand harsh envi­ron­ments and demand­ing mis­sions. How­ev­er, even these high-per­form­ing sys­tems still need prop­er pre­ven­tive care, and some­times unex­pect­ed repair work, to keep them oper­at­ing their best.

“We are thrilled to work with Avy and to pro­vide them with the peace of mind that they will have the fast, pro­fes­sion­al, and high-qual­i­ty sup­port they need, any­where in the world they oper­ate.”

Robot­ic Skies serves the com­mer­cial drone indus­try with main­te­nance, inspec­tion, and repair ser­vices through its net­work of over 225 qual­i­ty-con­trolled Ser­vice Cen­ters across 50 coun­tries.

Robot­ic Skies’ pro­pri­etary sys­tem com­bines exper­tise in unmanned air­craft sys­tems and tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion main­te­nance method­ol­o­gy to pro­vide afford­able turnkey field ser­vice pro­grams.

Hay­den was a recent guest on the eVTOL Insights Pod­cast, where he talked more about Robot­ic Skies and the impact it can have on the com­mer­cial drone and eVTOL mar­ket.

Patrique Zaman, Founder and CEO of Avy, said: “Hav­ing Robot­ic Skies as a trust­ed main­te­nance part­ner means we can focus our ener­gy on devel­op­ing and safe­ly deploy­ing our drone tech­nol­o­gy.

“As we look towards expand­ing our oper­a­tions, it makes sense for us to build indus­try part­ner­ships that can help us quick­ly advance our growth ini­tia­tives on a glob­al scale. Robot­ic Skies has the added ben­e­fit of meet­ing any main­te­nance-relat­ed reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments.”