Unfortunately, a 1-km reel of regular aerial fiber optic cable is too heavy to be hanging in one place (within the robot) on a typical power line. For that reason, Bombyx uses a special type of cable ...

Last week, the Brave1 tech cluster tested a dozen Ukrainian fibre-optic drones, a considerable number of which are capable of striking targets at distances of up to 40 km. Source: a journalist from ...