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MEDIA 2025.09.22

Demonstration flight of water-space drone at Drone Summit

Prodrone Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, President and CEO: Shunsuke Toya) will be exhibiting at the "4th Drone Summit 2025" to be held from Wednesday, September 24th to Thursday, September 25th, 2025. At the venue, in addition to conducting demonstration flights, we will be taking part in lectures and panel discussions, exhibiting aircraft at the Prodrone booth, and cooperating with the "Aichi Mobility Innovation Project" booth exhibit. During the demonstration flight on the 24th, we will be showing off to the public for the first time a demonstration of the ``Water-Air Combined Drone,'' which combines an aerial drone and an underwater drone. This drone is being developed with support from SBIR (Cabinet Office *1). At the venue, in addition to flying from the air, you can also view real-time footage from underwater. This is an opportunity to experience the next generation technology that has already been put into practical use and allows you to freely travel between the sky and water. At the Prodrone booth, you can see the latest lineup, including the "Prodrone GT-M" capable of long-distance flight (100km tested) and the disaster prevention drone "Prodrone Rescue." In addition, at the "Aichi Mobility Innovation Project" booth, we will exhibit the "SORA-MICHI experimental aircraft" for the first time, as well as the large drone "PD6B-CAT3", which was unveiled at "Japan Drone 2025" in June this year and is scheduled to receive Type 1 certification. At the lectures and panel discussions, our representative director and president, Shunsuke Totani, and executive officer and technical supervisor, Kiyoichi Sugagi, will be on stage to deliver the latest industrial trends and real voices from the field in line with each theme. Please pay attention to the perspectives of drone manufacturers that can only be heard here. *1 The SBIR (Small/Staurtup Business Innovation Research) system is a system that aims to support research and development by startups and the commercialization of its results, thereby promoting the creation of innovation in Japan. The water-space combination drone is being developed using Selected Project No. 18 of the Small and Medium Enterprise Innovation Creation Promotion Project (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, First Sector).■ Prodrone booth exhibition

■ Aichi Mobility Innovation Project Booth Exhibition

■ Demonstration flight of water-air combination droneDate and time: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 10:30-11:00 Location: Chuo Ryokuchi Park (3-chome Kinjofuto, Minato-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture)■ Keynote speech“About efforts to create innovation in Aichi Prefecture” Date and time: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 11:45-12:25 Speakers: Masaaki Shibayama (Advisor, Aichi Prefecture Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry), Shunsuke Totani■ Panel discussion⓵ “Towards mass production of domestically produced drones” Date and time: Thursday, September 25, 2025, 11:00-12:00 Moderator: Kiyoichi Sugaki Panelists: IHI, Daido University, Tokushima University Moderator: Shunsuke Toya Panelists: Nagoya Railway, Japan Airlines, Sojitz, etc.■ Symposium sponsored by the National New Smart Logistics Promotion CouncilDate and time: September 25, 2025 (Thursday) 15:20 ~ Shunsuke Totani, President and Representative Director of Prodrone, will participate as a panelist■Exhibition detailsExhibition name: 4th Drone Summit Period: September 24th to 25th, 2025, 10:00 to 17:00 Location: Port Messe Nagoya Booth location: Aichi Mobility Innovation Project (113) Prodrone (81) Website: https://dronesummit.pref.aichi.jp/ ■ About Prodrone Co., Ltd.With the vision of "becoming the most trusted drone company in the region," we aim to build a drone ecosystem in the Chubu region. We offer a one-stop service for everything from development to sales of industrial drones, including the PD6B-Type3 multicopter, which has a maximum recommended payload of 20kg and has begun mass production, and the Prodrone GT-M, which is capable of long-distance flight (100km tested).

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