The demand for "drone-nurses" is increasing. Even in Italy, the employment of these flying robots for transporting urgently needed medical and bio sanitary supplies is developing as one of their many potential applications. Initial trials in Italian airspace have demonstrated the viability of using these "drone-nurses" to swiftly transport medications, biological samples, vaccines, and blood between hospitals and health institutions located even tens of kilometers apart, without relying on the more expensive and frequently impeded by heavy traffic of large cities, conventional medical cars. It will also be able to bring life-saving equipment and organs for transplantation on these flights. Over 10 medical drone innovations created in Italy will be presented at the eighth edition of the event for professionals in the UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) sector, which will take place next week at the European University of Rome with the involvement of renowned Italian experts. On this occasion, various research involving "drone-nurses" will be demonstrated. In recent months, for instance, Leonardo - in partnership with Telespazio and D-Flight - organized two flights with the same number of fixed-wing and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones, the first with the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome and the second with the Lazio Region and Aeroporti di Roma.
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