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When the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Rik Leemans, stops in front of your invention and says he’s surprised, you know you’ve built something worth talking about.
That happened to a team of young Uzbek engineers this week at InnoWeek 2025 Forum, when Leemans (Nobel Peace Prize 2007) praised their locally produced drones – machines designed, assembled and coded entirely in Uzbekistan.
“It’s all ours,” says Kamronbek Rakhimov, one of the developers. “We built the software, sensors and body from scratch. Nothing imported.”
Kamronbek Rakhimov, one of the developers behind the new mapping drones Euronews
The drones, once a student experiment, now create 3D landscape maps for farms, river valleys and mountain areas.
“They can cover several hectares in half an hour,” Rakhimov added.
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