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A | 8 月 25 日消息，据外媒 TechCrunch 今天（25 日）报道，印度自主飞行无人机初创公司 Airbound 完成了 3,700 万美元（注：现汇率约合 2.49 亿元人民币）A 轮融资，希望最终把无人机空运货物的成本降到与公路卡车运输相当的水平。
B | Airbound 不到一年前刚刚获得 865 万美元（现汇率约合 5,829 万元人民币）种子轮融资，本轮完成后，这家成立 3 年的公司累计融资已接近 5,000 万美元（现汇率约合 3.37 亿元人民币）。
C | Beijing/London, Oct 18 (UNI) China's foreign ministry has defended an incident in which a Hong Kong protester was pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in the British city of Manchester and beaten up.
A spokesman said people had "illegally entered" the grounds and any country's diplomats would have taken "necessary measures" to protect their premises, the BBC reported.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong leader John Lee weighed in on the event, saying it should be dealt with in accordance with local laws.
Police are investigating an assault on the pro-democracy protester on Sunday. Footage shows men emerging from the consulate and dragging a man inside.
The violence has prompted loud calls for the UK government to summon China's ambassador, and possibly take further action.
The protester, identified as Bob, suffered several physical injuries and spent a night in hospital for treatment.
However, China is sticking to a different version of events from the police.
"People [who] intended to cause nuisance entered the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester illegally... threatening the safety of a Chinese diplomatic facility," said foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin at a daily press briefing in Beijing.
He added that any attempt to infringe on the consulate's "tranquillity and dignity" would "not be tolerated".
According to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police, around 30 to 40 people had gathered outside the consulate and patrols were in the area to help maintain the "peaceful protest".
"Shortly before 4pm a small group of men came out of the building and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted," a police statement said.
"Due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds."
The consulate says protesters had displayed an insulting portrait of China's president.
Bob told BBC Chinese that "mainlanders" - people from mainland China, as opposed to Hong Kong - had come out of the consulate and destroyed their posters.
"As we tried to stop them, they dragged me inside, they beat me up," he said. "It's ridiculous. They [the attackers] shouldn't have done that. We are supposed to have freedom to say whatever we want here [in the UK]."
The protest took place on the same day China kicked off its twice-a-decade Communist Party Congress, where its leader President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure a third term in power.
Xi had on Sunday made reference to the situation in Hong Kong, saying Beijing had turned the situation in the city from "chaos to governance".
Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the former British colony after pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019.
UNI ING。Airbound 等初创公司认为，相比公路车辆，无人机运送部分货物速度更快、成本更低。无人机配送已经出现了一些成功案例，但无论运输规模还是适用范围，目前都远不能与卡车运输相比。Airbound 希望从飞行器本身入手缩小差距，让无人机拥有与地面运输竞争的成本优势。传统飞行器很大一部分能源都消耗在承载自身重量上，而不是运输货物，因此空运成本居高不下，运输小批量货物时尤其明显。Airbound 创始人兼 CEO 纳曼 · 普什普解释，公司希望制造自身重量低于所载货物重量的垂直飞行无人机，以解决这一问题。目前其打造的 TRT 无人机重约 1.5kg，可以运载约 1kg 货物，正在开发的下一代产品预计重约 3kg，载重量最高可达约 5kg。
D | Airbound 采用类似火箭的尾座式设计，以直立姿态垂直起飞，升空后转为水平飞行，降落时再恢复直立姿态。普什普表示，公司未来即使制造更大的无人机，也会继续保留垂直起降能力，避免对跑道产生依赖。“我们的目标是，让所有运输最终都能做到与卡车运输成本相当。”Airbound 成立于 2023 年，已经在印度南部的班加罗尔和贡土尔完成超过 1.3 万次自主飞行。公司下一步的目标充满野心，计划建立一个连接安得拉邦 3 座城市的无人机配送网络，并已经与当地政府签署协议，最终实现每天 1 万次飞行，为零售、电商和医疗领域运送货物。“我们想扮演的是波音的角色，也就是提供各地航空公司都依赖的飞机，而不是自己成为航空公司。”然而，监管限制让 Airbound 目前很难把大量飞行转化为真正的商业收入。
E | 公司已经拥有超过 150 名员工，整体上却仍处于基本没有营收的阶段。
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