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AFTER THE Covid lockdown was announced last year and campuses were shut, 19-year-old Dewang Subil returned to his village in Kerala from Bengaluru. Four months ago, the computer science student with a passion for photography bought a battery-operated drone — he wanted to capture the best images. Last week, Dewang …

On a sunny October afternoon, in a deserted Edina, Minnesota, park, a black drone the size of a dinner plate takes off from the grass and zooms across the expanse. It roars like a mechanical mosquito. Or a high-pitched blender possessed by the devil. At rest, the X-shaped craft, with …

Leaks from natural gas transmission pipelines can present a significant safety hazard, as well as being harmful to the environment and extremely costly to producers. ABB Ability IoT solution turns drone into gas detector Now drones are to be put to work to sniff out gas leaks from transmission pipelines, …

Butte, Mont. • On a recent afternoon, Ian Fairweather, president of Fairweather IT, remotely navigated a six-propeller drone his company designed and built toward an exhausted snow goose that had recently landed on the placid, reflective water of the Berkeley Pit. But the snow goose resisted the attempts to be …

Niger is turning to drone technology to help protect a Saharan antelope and other endangered species in Africa’s largest terrestrial park. The Termit and Tin Toumma reserve in the southeast of the West African desert state is at threat from poaching, deforestation, over-grazing and armed conflict. French conservation group Noe …