Singapore start-up aims to bring healthcare to Papua New Guinea’s needy, one drone at a time

Department of Computer Science, News Media, Student

Singapore start-up Yonah, made up of NUS alumni and students, are hoping to build a cargo drone system for hospitals to deliver measles vaccines. NUS Computing student Sriram Sami was enlisted in August 2016 and is now the avionics lead and part of the core team. He is developing and testing an autopilot software based on an open source Ardupilot project.

Channel News Asia, 15 February 2018

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