Flyability Wins 2025 Safety and Innovation Mining Excellence Awards

Flyability is proud to announce that it has been awarded both the Safety and Innovation Awards in the 2025 Mining Technology Excellence Awards. These awards acknowledge the profound impact that Flyability’s solutions have had in the mining sector. 

The Mining Technology Excellence Awards are awarded annually, with commendations falling under 12 different categories. 

Patrick Thévoz, Flyability’s co-founder and CEO, said, “These awards are a profound validation of our founding mission: to keep human inspectors out of dangerous spaces. Mining has been our fastest-growing segment in the past years, and the Elios 3 drone & software solution is empowering a growing number of mine operators across the globe to safely scan and access complex environments. We are committed to continuing our work as pioneers, driving the future of digitized inspection to make mines globally safer and more efficient.”

The Mining Excellence Award’s safety category includes companies and organisations that actively demonstrate the best practices in terms of health and safety, whether it be compliance with standards or new initiatives taken to improve workplace safety. With the primary goal of the Elios 3 being to ensure humans do not enter dangerous environments, it exemplifies this category. The Elios 3 can be used to enter old workings or survey cave-ins without human entry, allowing mine operators to safely plan the next steps. 

The Innovation Award has a wide scope, accepting nominations from new products, new services, novel product features, marketing strategies, or business practices. Each submission for the award is assessed based on the novel elements that demonstrate the candidate solution/product as a new or creative technology in the mining sector. With the Elios 3, the drone’s combined ability to gather critical data remotely and its custom software suite offer unparalleled access to mine operators. At mines around the world, the Elios 3 is proving itself in terms of both time and financial savings while providing greater access than ever before, making it the perfect champion for this award. 

The full article detailing Flyability’s award and profile is available on the Mining Technology Excellence Awards page. 

For more information, please reach out to media@flyability.com