Swiss Firm RigiTech Enables Drone Delivery—Without a Landing or Takeoff

The company’s prototype precision dropping system delivered wind turbine parts 20 miles offshore with a 100 percent success rate.

Jack Daleo

Monday, July 03, 2023 at 04:17 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

RigiTech successfully tested its Eiger drone system, featuring a precision dropping prototype, for autonomously delivering spare parts to offshore wind turbines without requiring the drone to land.
The landmark test at Ørsted's Anholt Offshore Wind Farm achieved 100% success in 40 deliveries, monitored remotely over long distances.
Utilizing AI-based RigiCloud software and extensive Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) authorizations, RigiTech's solution enhances wind turbine maintenance and expands possibilities for long-range, autonomous drone logistics.

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Wind turbine maintenance is an important yet unheralded task. But drones have arrived to spice things up.

RigiTech is a Swiss drone manufacturer and operator boasting some of the most extensive beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight authorizations in the industry. And it just completed a landmark test of its Eiger delivery system, flying spare parts to the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm, located 20 sm (17 nm) off the coast of Denmark. But there’s a catch—the drones didn’t need to land.