Imagine for a moment a city where, alongside the usual services - firefighters, police, waste haulers, traffic regulators - squads of advanced drones are working almost autonomously during the day and night. They monitor and analyse the city's congestion in real time - and adjust traffic lights accordingly. Others rush to the scene of a fire and provide life-saving information to firefighters. Others guard important sites around the clock. Linas Gelažanskas, whose company develops advanced autonomous drone technology, dreams of such cities in the very near future.
The Vilnius resident's interest in flying machines dates back to his childhood, when he started building model aeroplanes when he was just four years old. Since then, his desire to turn his ideas into reality has only grown. After studying in the UK and the US, Linas graduated from Lancaster University with a PhD in engineering, but returned to Lithuania to pursue his dreams. He is now the head of IT Logika, a scientific innovation company he founded, which develops applied drone technologies. Specifically, he is developing drone systems that will operate almost autonomously, without the constant supervision of human pilots, and thus revolutionise the daily management of cities.
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