BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) — In the wheat fields of Nanyukou Village, Cheng’an County, in north China’s Hebei Province, farmers have given up the spring toil of spraying pesticides by hand, leaving it instead to agricultural drones. “We used to work hard in the fields with ‘face to the soil …
Read More »Walmart to launch high-tech service at 2nd store in US – and…
WALMART is set to launch a brand new method of delivery at its second US store – and it could help a select few avoid self-checkout. Walmart joined forces with Wing, a Google owned company, in April, announcing it would begin offering drone delivery in two stores in the Dallas-Fort …
Read More »Australia, US, UK forge high-tech deal to counter China
AP, MOUNTAIN VIEW, California From underwater drones to electronic warfare, the US is expanding its high-tech military cooperation with Australia and the UK as part of a broader effort to counter China’s rapidly growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Friday met with Australian …
Read More »Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure Could Happen in the U.S., …
Israel’s 40-mile-long chain of walls and fences at its Gaza border teems with sensors and automated weapons. It is supported by an electronic intelligence network that monitors every phone call, text message and email in the territory. A large, well-trained military stands ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to respond rapidly to …
Read More »Drone racing: Speed, skills and high-tech thrills
WHAT comes to mind when you think of the word drone? It could be futuristic autonomous bots delivering packages of things you ordered online right to your doorstep, or maybe those light shows put on during big celebrations like National Day and New Year’s. In Malaysia, we’ve seen them used …
Read More »Advance Navigation opens high-tech manufacturing facility
Advanced Navigation, the world’s most determined innovator in artificial intelligence (AI) for robotic and navigation technologies, has unveiled a new high-tech robotics facility for autonomous systems based at UTS Tech Lab in Botany, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The facility will scale up the manufacturing of Advanced Navigation’s world-first AI navigation systems …
Read More »High-tech high seas: how drone boats are changing the way na…
They can travel thousands of kilometres with no one on board, spend weeks at sea, and some are already armed with weapons. Drone boats are in the water around the world right now, as both private companies and militaries experiment with the technology. “We are at the very beginning of …
Read More »Merida’s City Hall will seek to acquire new high-tech equipm…
“The Mérida City Hall supported the control tasks in the Peón Contreras theater incident with high-tech equipment that watches over and monitors different aspects of security and mobility in the Historic Center”, said Mayor Renán Barrera. He explained that the Municipality rents a drone that flies over the city to …
Read More »Olympics to drive high-tech transformation of Queensland sta…
“You might want the drone view, or the [club] president’s 50-metre view.” Lee said he was also “blown away” by the Bernabeu’s removable pitch, which would be stored underground and increase potential event nights at the 85,000-capacity stadium from about 100 a year to 250. An artist’s impression of the …
Read More »Farmers go high-tech with ‘dairy drone’ imagery to help them…
A grass drone. Photo: Brent Barbano, Sharegrid Previous Next Image 1 of 2 A grass drone. Photo: Brent Barbano, Sharegrid Image 2 of 2 This innovation is designed to help farmers determine the best time and which areas to allow their cows feed. ALFIE SHAW Published: Sun 31 Jul 2022, …
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