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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Matternet CEO Andreas Raptopoulos walks next to an operator carrying a drone used for delivery of medical specimens after a flight at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 26, 2019. Matternet and UPS partnered with the hospital to start commercial flights of medical samples across the WakeMed campus. …
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This spring, the company will begin a new trial in Helsinki, Finland, for which it is soliciting views as to what should be delivered. Burgess also said that, separate from drone tests, the company and others were working on an unmanned traffic management system. Akin to virtual air traffic controllers, …
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At a conference hosted by the Born Free Foundation, conservationists outlined how they are harnessing technology to protect endangered wildlife. Andrew Wade reports It is no small irony that as humanity destroys more and more of the natural world, it concurrently increases its ability to both study and protect it. We are living …
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GIRLS from Byfield and Keppel Sands had the opportunity to pilot drones over a ‘miniature Great Barrier Reef’ during the SheMaps roadshow yesterday. CQ primary students were given a twenty-minute course in safety, flight theory and navigation before flying drones within the Royal Flying Doctor Service hangar. Husband-and-wife team Paul …
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, Mar, 12 2019 – (JCN Newswire) – Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) is putting into practical service unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to more easily and efficiently inspect the interiors of power plant boilers and other large indoor structures. Demonstration testing for manually operated drones was completed last …
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Farmers usedrones to spray chemical herbicidesin a wheat field in Yanggang village, Shihe town, Qiaocheng district of Bozhou city, eastern China’s Anhui province, March 4,2019. (Photo by Liu Qinli from People’s Daily Online) Several Chinese cities are using drones to monitor traffic, capturing traffic violations such as using mobile phones …
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Adrian Sainz, The Associated Press Published Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:34PM EST Rescue crews didn’t have to stumble through every destroyed building in their search for victims after a tornado ravaged a corner of Alabama this week: They used heat-seeking drones to let them know whether there was anyone beneath …
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Help is at hand for troops on the front lines thanks to palm-sized drones developed by the the Ministry of Defence (MOD). British Army plans will see 200 miniature drones ‘smaller than a human hand’ deployed on the battlefield to provide soldiers with an eye in the sky. These mini-drones, dubbed Black Hornet, …
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LEHMAN TWP. — Up in the sky. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s just a drone. And the word “just” doesn’t apply. Jared Reimer, from ABJ Drones, a New Jersey-based company that deals in the flying eyes in the sky, offered a presentation at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre …
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