Clear Flight plans to make the robots commercially available by the second half of next year.
Similarly, only a few individuals that came in close contact with a cage containing crabs showed a clear flight response, compared to the control.
"The Robirds could definitely help by creating a barrier between the birds and the power plant," Nico Nijenhuis, founder of Clear Flight, told me.
We were now one synchronized formation, with a clear flight plan and a mission objective that had been delivered in our pre-mission briefing.
The Robirds are in the final testing stages, according to Clear Flight, which claims that bird traffic declined by 50% or more – at some landfill sites – when the robo birds took flight.
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Clear Flight Solutions' Robird is the remote-controllable, doesn't-need-feeding version of the same idea.
Clear Flight Solutions' Robird is a drone that flaps its wings and scares the bejesus out of other birds to keep aviation safe.
He explains that Clear Flight Solutions would team up with a local partner who has the relevant licence to operate these types of drones for legal compliance purposes.
"But more important than that, there needs to be clear flight planning and use of the designated routes, adherence to air traffic control, and all of those things build up layers of safety to help prevent an accident".
In contrast, venture capital investments, which had recalibrated alongside the IPO market in the second half of last year, have remained sedate with a clear flight to quality; fewer rounds, for higher-quality companies, with larger check sizes.
