All eyes on the sky
A bolt of inspiration hit Eric Peck while serving as a RAAF Hercules pilot eight years ago in Afghanistan. “I saw how drones were being used to track soldiers on the battlefield,” he recalls. “It piqued my interest, because my parents had just moved to a farm, and I thought maybe they could track their cows that way.”
The seed took shoot four years later after Peck had left the RAAF and was working at professional services firm Deloitte. There he met a robotics engineer, Josh Tepper, who had been asked by government agencies whether drones could be used to move chemotherapy medication to remote places.
“There’s normally a hospital within about 100-150 kilometres of most smaller healthcare facilities in the country, and there was only about a kilo of medication that needed to be moved,” says Peck. “We
