At an explosives test range at Oklahoma State University, Jasper Baur tested his technology’s ability to detect land mines and dozens of other kinds of explosive ordnance – credit, Demining Research Community. When drones appeared on the scene en masse, many people saw the potential immediately—for military purposes, for breathtaking …
Read More »Companies Now Use Drones to Find Reasons to Cancel Your Home…
Here’s another reason to hate drones. Insurance companies across the nation are now using drones to aerially scope out customers’ homes and suss out reasons to cancel their home insurance, The Wall Street Journal reported. That’s what happened to Cindy Picos, who told the Journal her insurance provider used a …
Read More »Students find sky-high excitement with UAF drone center
The room at Delta Junction Junior High School would look busy even without the nine students zipping around. The buzz from the kids just added to that busy-ness. Nick Adkins easily got their attention, however. He was visiting to teach them some things about drones — and not only the …
Read More »Rotorua Lakes Council uses drone to find rough sleepers in r…
Local Democracy Reporter Felix Desmarais visits Sanatorium Reserve. Video / NZ Herald Rotorua Lakes Council flew a drone over an urban reserve to find rough sleepers, and found two. The drone’s use was revealed in an operational report for January, presented to the council’s Operations and Monitoring Committee meeting on …
Read More »Drone and thermal camera used to find lost hikers in Bedford…
A search and rescue team used a thermal camera mounted on a drone to locate two lost hikers Christmas Day in the Peaks of Otter recreation area of Bedford County. The two men had set off for Sharp Top Mountain shortly before dusk without proper lighting or emergency equipment, according …
Read More »Drone helps Grant Co. Sheriff’s Office find man with dementi…
March 23, 2021 7:03 PM Elenee Dao Posted: March 23, 2021 7:03 PM HARTLINE, Wash. — It’s a nightmare losing a loved one at night in freezing weather. “This gentleman, I’ve probably known him since I was in diapers,” said Fire Chief Daryl Dormaier, with Grant County Fire District 6. …
Read More »Franklin County Deputy uses drone to find lost hunters
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Two hunters who were lost in the woods Monday night are safe thanks in part to a high tech drone. Monday, around 8 p.m., The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) got a call that two hunters were lost in the woods at Battelle Darby Creek Metro …
Read More »New police drones deployed to find missing people
Image caption Drones are an increasingly common sight and, outwardly, this one is no different Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people. The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can’t to try to work out where people …
Read More »MIT, NASA develop tech that could be used to find missing hi…
New drone technology that could allow fleets of the unmanned vehicles to navigate without GPS, developed by MIT and NASA, could help find hikers lost in the wilderness and one day could be used to make their way over the surface of the moon and Mars, researchers say. “You can …
Read More »Tiny optical gyroscope could find a home in phones and drone…
Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created the world’s smallest optical gyroscope, a sensor that could be used in smartphones and drones. The optical gyroscope resting on grains of rice (Credit: Ali Hajimiri/Caltech) The tiny device, which is smaller than a grain of rice, determines its position …
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