Hyderabad, Oct. 6 -- As part of the Medicines from the Sky trials Airserve today demonstrated successfully the medical drone delivery capability from Vikarabad Area Hospital to Madgulchittampalle primary healthcare centre, the distance between the two hospitals is 6.2km.

According to a press release, Airserve is a Hyderabad-based innovative start-up in customized drone and autonomous aerial services. T-Works, an initiative of the government of Telangana, has designed and fabricated a cold-storage medical supplies payload with a first-of-its-kind autonomous release mechanism. It was done in collaboration with Airserve Initiatives.

The solution incorporates a unique payload-release mechanism that automatically detaches the entire payload ...