Initiatives jointly with large companies and industrial partners, to encourage the contamination and dissemination of best practices and the development of co-innovation projects.- Leonardo - Drones Project - The initiative starts from the collaboration between Poste Italiane and Leonardo to evaluate the potential of drones in the logistics field and to explore new business models with a focus on the drone logistics market. The agreement provides a vertical study of the drone delivery market both nationally and internationally, the identification and testing of solutions that meet the needs of a logistics operator and the evaluation of a potential medium-term partnership. The project will end by 2022. In February 2022 a freight transport simulation was carried out in Turin with safe flight tests in a pre-operational scenario. The ground and flight tests took place starting from a sorting center of Poste Italiane with an electrically powered VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) cargo drone. With this experimentation, a further step is taken towards an air logistics transport model that will allow, in perspective, to move hundreds of kilos with remote control of the aircraft. The synergy will make it possible to develop and offer value-added services to communities based on new generation technologies, even in emergency situations.
