ISRAELI drone solution provider Airobotics has become the first company in the world to be granted authorisation to fly fully automated drones without a pilot, albeit only drones commercially deployed and flown in Israeli air space.
Certification was granted by the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel, which authorised drones commercially deployed in Israel to fly without a pilot-in-command in beyond visual line of sight mode.
This level of certification is the most innovative level of commercial drone operations, allowing computer software and artificial intelligence to take the place of a human drone pilot.
Airobotics’ drone system can fly in automated BVLOS mode sans pilot only on customer sites in Israel, including Israel Chemicals’ Tel Aviv base and Intel Israel’s sites around the country.
As Airobotics’ first local clients, Intel and ICL helped push development by allowing the company and the CAAI to conduct testing on-site at facilities in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Read the full article by Karma Barndon at Australia’s Mining Monthly.