These aerospace experts are building drones to save accident victims’ lives
Their drones can reach accident site quickly, carrying an ‘active blood control kit’ that bystanders can administer to the victim with help from medical professionals connected digitally via the drone.
While working at defence organisations such as Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Abhishek Burman played a key role in the design and development of India’s combat aircraft programmes.
Now as director and chief executive officer at General Aeronautics (GA), Burman and his team are building drones for saving lives. His startup, which was incubated at Society for Innovation and Development (SID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), designs and makes unmanned aerial vehicles or drones focused on security and civilian applications. …