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

Verified

Key Takeaways:

RigiTech successfully demonstrated its Eiger drone delivery system by autonomously dropping spare parts to offshore wind turbines without landing, a significant innovation for platforms lacking landing pads.
This precision cargo dropping system utilizes advanced technologies like AI-based flight planning, computer vision, and remote monitoring via RigiCloud software for centimeter-level accuracy in high-wind environments.
RigiTech's BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) drone technology is also being expanded for long-range medical and humanitarian deliveries across multiple European countries, navigating diverse regulatory landscapes.

See a mistake? Contact us.

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.