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The Drift: North Bay-devised drone ready for underground res…

Purpose-built Emergency Response Drone latest product offering from SafeSight Exploration It’s smaller than an average-sized dinner plate, but what the SafeScout Emergency Response Drone (ERD) lacks in girth it more than makes up for in ambition. Launched in mid-September, SafeScout weighs a mere 950 grams (two pounds) and measures a …

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THE DRIFT: Drones making underground inspections safer

Mike Campigotto envisions a day when an autonomous drone can wake up underground, fly a pre-determined route recording the specs of a stope, return to its docking station, and upload the data to a server – all before the mine supervisor has had their morning coffee. It’s not as far …

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