Inspired at first by a desire to beat their city's notorious traffic, a group of Cambodian students have designed a prototype drone that they hope can eventually be used to ferry people around Phnom Penh and even help fight fires.
With eight propellers and using a school chair for the pilot's seat, the drone was developed by students at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia on the outskirts of the capital.
"We wanted to solve some problems for our society by making a taxi drone and... inventing drones for firefighters," he said, noting how, for example, they hoped it could reach the upper floors of a building to bring a hose where a fire truck could not reach. While the team hopes it will eventually fly far higher, when manned the drone currently only rises to as much as 4 metres .
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