Packaging Europe Issue 15.6

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THE FUTURE OF DRONES AND PACKAGING Libby Munford speaks with Robert Garbett, founder LM: First things first, I’d like to ask you a very simple question: what is a drone? and chief executive of The Drone Major Group, an independent drone advisory service, about the RG: A drone is any unmanned system that is autonomously or remotely future of the drone industry. controlled in any environment, be it on the earth’s surface, underwater, in the air, or in space. So it’s a very wide spectrum, and you have to encompass all of those spaces if you want to solve a problem effectively – the answer isn’t always a little flying drone.

LM: Can you tell me more about the Drone Major Group? RG: We were founded in 2017 with the initial drive to unite all the stakeholders in the industry, across all the areas we cover. Within three to six months, it became clear to us that there really was a need for advisory Packaging Europe | 23 |


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