
Federal Express Corporation (FedEx), in partnership with the IIT Madras, has successfully completed the first-ever intra-city drone delivery flight trials in India, conducted in Bengaluru. The initiative was carried out under the research framework of the FedEx SMART Centre at the IIT Madras and implemented with Amber Wings, a deep-tech startup incubated at the institute.
The trials demonstrated that a 53 km road journey taking 60 minutes could be replaced by a 39-42 km flight route, reducing the transit time to 21 minutes.
