Herotech8 Ltd

This project seeks to advance the field of urban air mobility by developing an advanced 3D connectivity mapping tool, designed to enhance the integration and operational efficiency of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) within urban environments. By leveraging drone technology, photogrammetry, and connectivity performance monitoring, our initiative aims to create...

This ambitious 2-year project will develop, evaluate, standardise and operationally deploy the world's first fully automated Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to conduct 24/7 commercial UAS operations in one of the busiest airports in the world, London Heathrow. The High intensity Autonomous Drone Operations project (HADO) will create a scalable technical an...

Project Skyway is an ambitious plan to put Britain once again at the forefront of a transport revolution the likes of which it has not seen since the advent of the steam railway in the 18th century. Then, short lengths of track sprang up around the country allowing steam-powered locomotives to take coal from northern mines or wool and cotton from mill tow...

Our vision for the future of UK infrastructure encompasses fleets of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) powered by renewable energy to deliver more efficient applications and processes in high cost areas such as search and rescue and highway maintenance, whilst reducing the economic impact currently caused by interruptions such as road closures. Additionally...

This project aims to pave a way for integration of drones into the UK transport system for their widespread use for commercial deliveries. For this purpose, we focus on development and integration of physical and digital infrastructure into the practice of medical supplies delivery between blood banks and UK hospitals, paying special attention on integrat...

Covid-19 crisis highlighted the potential benefits of using drones as an alternative, resilient, fast, flexible transport mode for inter-sites medical logistics. This recognition came at a time when inventories of supplies, surgical tools, samples were badly needed, but were not necessarily at the right place at the right time. The use of drones supports ...

XCelerate partners' goal is to take UTM systems out into the real world, by providing a repeatable framework that towns, cities and wider can follow in order to open up portions of the skies and enable suitable safe BVLOS operations, including highly automated (no-pilot-in-the-loop) scenarios. Project XCelerate will be enabled by a network of existing and...

COVID-19 has created a need to better connect locations of care provision (e.g. hospitals, doctors surgeries, pharmacies and nursing homes), in order to improve the speed of delivery for time critical medication, to reduce transmissibility of COVID-19 to vulnerable patients and to help move care provision and testing closer to the patient via better distr...

HEROTECH8 is a UK-based robotics company and CWEIC CommonwealthFirst Export Champion, with a vision to create wide-scale, clean and sustainable infrastructure hardware for drones. Recipient of the InFocus Women In Innovation Prize in 2016, the team seeks to complete an industrial research project in robotics and autonomous systems. This will allow develop...

HEROTECH8 is a start-up company based at Cranfield University Business Incubation Centre (CUBIC) in Bedfordshire in enabling robotics. Our aim is to bring drone technology to people and places that either would not have the resources, energy infrastructure or technical know-how to reliably and safely operate existing drone platforms. Following our recent ...