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How drones are helping deliver prescriptions & the fight against #Covid19

An Irish drone company Manna Aero is working with the HSE on a trial to deliver medication to ...

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10.36 5 May 2020


How drones are helping deliver prescriptions & the fight against #Covid19


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10.36 5 May 2020


An Irish drone company Manna Aero is working with the HSE on a trial to deliver medication to vulnerable people cocooning in Moneygall. But how else could we use drone technology to help us through the crisis? Henry McKean met drone experts who say the small aircraft can help to monitor social distancing, get difficult construction surveys done safely and deliver food and even do thermal imaging. Henry got to take part in a trial in Dun Laoghaire with Ian Kiely
CEO of Drone Consultants Ireland and Conrad Schafer, UCD mechanical engineering student who has set up dronescape.ie

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