Copter Express COEX Technology

Kopter Express is located on the territory of the Moscow SEZ in Pechatniki. The company produces an educational designer "COEX Clover" and industrial autonomous drones "COEX Pelican" for monitoring territories and delivering light-weight cargo. The company also developed an automatic charging station. drones The organization is a member of Skolkovo, a member of the Association of Operators and Developers of Unmanned Aircraft Systems "" and AERONET a member of the Union of Machine Builders. Russia COEX supports and organizes events and initiatives aimed at the development of the ALS industry, cooperates with, WorldSkills Russia acts as a partner of the events of the Olympiad of the National Technological Initiative, the School of New Technologies, the All-Russian Robotic Olympiad.

Copter Express Technology LLC appeared in 2016, 95% of the company belongs to Oleg Ponfilenka, 5% - to his partner Vasily Filippov (data Kontur.Focus).

Products and Services

Copter Express Technology makes two types of drones - a design drone for training Clover 3 and Pelican for cargo delivery and monitoring the infrastructure of companies. The cars are assembled in the Moskva technopolis, where the company's office is located. There is also a training center. Schoolchildren and college students learn to design, assemble and pilot a quadcopter, as well as program its autonomous flight. Having assembled the Pelican drone, the student will be able to assemble any drone, according to COEX, because he not only understands the design of this aircraft, but can also simulate it. In addition, exactly the same computers as in Clover 3 are used today on industrial drones.

COEX provides its students with a full course of study, including video, textbooks, an open platform for UAV study and development - Gitbook. And all software updates are available on Githab^[1] and in the ^[2].

The Pelican unmanned drone is most used in the oil and gas sector. So, for Rosneft, the quadcopter monitors whether an employee works in a helmet on the rig or without a helmet. If an employee is injured, the information received is taken into account to estimate the amount of insurance payments. Such monitoring is needed for the safety of oil workers at the facility. The job of a guard hired for these purposes would be more expensive than that of a Pelican drone. Such a device with a charging station costs 990 thousand rubles, without a station - 490 thousand rubles. COEX sells exactly the drones themselves, not services to operate them.

For Gazpromneft, the drone delivered beacons to ice floes so that the icebreaker could freely pass in the ice of the North Sea, in the Arctic.

The speed of the Pelican industrial drone is up to 72 km/h, the weight is up to 3 kg, it can fly 30 minutes without recharging, the flight range is 10 km. The company writes flight software. The machine lands on a special mark similar to a QR code measuring 1.2 x 1.2 m. Using machine vision, the drone reads this mark or arUco markers in which any action is programmed - the mark gives the drone a command, for example, to climb up, etc.

History and Performance Indicators

2022: Sale of industrial drone business

As it became known on June 24, 2022, the Russian Coex sold the Pelican industrial drone business to Hive (part of the Gaskar Group). The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It is only known that the buyer of assets is going to invest at least 100 million rubles in the project by the end of 2022.

According to Kommersant, the agreement involves the transfer of rights to design developments, production lines and a team. Coex plans to retain the Clover line of quadcopter designers, which are designed to teach robotics.

Russian Coex sold its industrial drone business to a competitor

Hive CEO Nikolai Ryashin told Kommersant that negotiations with Coex began almost immediately after DJI decided to suspend work in Russia. The new owner wants to "transform production from small-scale to mass production," and even before the takeover procedure was completed, he found a new battery supplier based in Kazan. Coex, on the other hand, did not consider the Pelican professional drone line to be its main asset - it brought the company about 15% of profits, and the rest came from the Clover educational series.

Experts interviewed by Kommersant believe that Hive should move on. To replace DJI with Pelican, you will have to make changes to the design of drone ports, and at the next stage it may be a full-scale logistics system that can automatically receive parcels to drone ports and send them.

By June 2022, there are no large-scale Russian projects for the production of drones yet: not a single Russian brand "cannot be talked about in terms of prevalence," said Maxim Mysev, director of telecommunications projects at Diginavis LLC. He added that since March 1, 2022, due to changes in federal aircraft stations (FAP-494), the industrial use of drones has actually become illegal, with the exception of solutions for premises.^[3]

2019: Launch of crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo platform

On October 10, 2019, it became known that the metropolitan company COEX launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo platform.

The company, which operates on the territory of the SEZ "Technopolice" Moscow, "launched a crowdfunding campaign on the international platform Indiegogo^[4]

COEX makes special Clover Drones in Moscow, on which anyone can learn how to assemble and program drones. The kit includes quadcopter assembly components, open source software, and the documentation required for training. In Russia, more than 3,000 schoolchildren and students have already studied working with drones on Clover Drones.

The special economic zone "Technopolice" Moscow "provides a modern infrastructure and the opportunity to integrate into its ecosystem. COEX is one of the most interesting developers and manufacturers that operates simultaneously in two promising markets: the industrial drone market and the educational market. I hope that soon robotics will be studied at SOECH Clover quadcopters not only in Russia, but also abroad, noted the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of the city of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov

Indiegogo was selected to enter the international B2C market and promote an updated version of the SOECH Clover 4 for flying robotics training. The main goal is to assess the demand for our product, and then go to the Amazon and Alibaba portals. The crowdfunding campaign will end in November 2019, COEX Marketing Director Alexander Dubinin told

With the COEX Clover School kit, you can create your own drone control training course. This package includes educational materials on the 72 and 144 of academic hours, methodological materials for courses in aviation robotics and more than 100 hours of video on the practical assembly, calibration and operation of the drone.

2018: Sale of 1,300 quadcopters

Copter Express Technology (COEX) sold 1,300 unmanned drones - quadcopters in the year and in 2019 plans to double their production and receive revenue of 250 million rubles. Revenue, according to official data, amounted to 109 million rubles, net profit - about 30 million rubles.

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