Strix2100 universal drone docking station rolls out from Ohio

It looks like Spright, the drone services division of air medical service provider Air Methods, is set to receive what is being called the only universal and fully autonomous drone docking station in the world. Israel-based StrixDrones tells DroneDJ that the first units of its highly advanced Strix2100 DroneDock are now rolling off the assembly line in Dayton, Ohio.

StrixDrones announced the opening of its US manufacturing facility a little over a year ago. The drone tech company had been awarded a contract by Air Methods, which was looking to build the only bi-directional, drone-based, healthcare-specific delivery network across the United States and beyond. The Israeli company then roped in local material suppliers such as RAM Precision Industries and NCT Technologies Group as subcontractors.

Niv Aharoni, founder and CEO of StrixDrones, explains that, unlike other docking systems, the customizable DroneDock is the only product in the market with…