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  • Australian Delivery Drone Mishap

    Last month, a remote food delivery drone owned by Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, crashed into electric power lines en route to a suburban home in Brisbane, Australia.  The collision caused a fire that briefly knocked out power to area residents.  The company apologized for the incident, which may have been caused... Read More

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  • Drones Can Help Coffee Farmers Meet Rising Global Demand

    A number of countries that produce coffee as their major export commodity are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to protect and nurture their crop yields.  But none, perhaps, is more dedicated to this task than the central African nation of Uganda, the world’s seventh largest coffee producer.  Uganda actually harvests two annual coffee crops, and... Read More

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  • Is North Dakota the “Silicon Valley of Drones”?

    North Dakota might seem like an unlikely venue for a major commercial drone exposition. But last week’s 16th Annual UAS Summit and Expo held in Grand Forks – which attracted more than 600 academics, business leaders and state and local politicians – confirmed the state’s reputation as the epicenter of the US drone industry.  North... Read More

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  • Drone Captures Rare Footage of Great White Sharks Under Siege

    Conservationists are tracking various types of endangered mammals as well as fish species whose numbers have reached dangerously low levels – to better understand how to protect them.  But scientists in South Africa have taken a special interest in the plight of a fearsome predator that is still thriving – the Great White Shark.  In... Read More

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  • Inside the Eye of the Storm: Tracking Hurricane Fiona in Canada

    Hurricane Ian isn’t the only extreme weather event wreaking havoc on the North American continent.  Further north, in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Hurricane Fiona has been pummeling coastal towns destroying homes and property and leaving thousands without power.  Residents are calling it the worst hurricane in Canada’s history.  But thanks to unmanned wind drones deployed... Read More

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  • Second Year of “Elon Drone Day” Set for November 18

    In recent years, some U.S. high schools and trade schools have begun integrating drone technology classes into their curricula, in part to spur students to consider the expanding drone industry as a promising career path.  But at the college level, it’s more common to find a senior professor and drone enthusiast using his university campus... Read More

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  • Drones Are Helping Floridians Assess the Damage Caused by  Hurricane Ian

    Authorities in Florida have begun cleaning up the devastation to homes and beaches caused by Hurricane Ian.  It’s an arduous task, made more difficult by the lack of access to some of the hardest hit areas. But thanks to  surveillance overflights conducted by swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) authorities are piecing together a comprehensive... Read More

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  • Faced with Mounting Building Collapses, Kenya Turns to Drones

    Construction is one of the main U.S. industries in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are making their mark.  Drones can quickly survey a construction site to assess its stock and inventory; they can also conduct random safety checks at a fraction of the cost of human inspections – and without exposing field workers to injury.... Read More

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  • De-Mining the World’s Battlefields with Drones

    Land mines are one of the scourges of modern warfare.  Under international law, parties are supposed to lay their mines in an orderly fashion and to mark and keep track of them; they’re also supposed to construct mines with metallic materials that allow them to be detected.  Instead, in many armed conducts over the past... Read More

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  • Taiwan Enters into the World of Counter-Drones

    Taiwan’s government has just announced plans to develop its first comprehensive counter-drone system to defend itself against possible intrusions and spying by China.  The decision, announced in late August, came just days after an unidentified drone suspected of being launched by China flew low over a Taiwanese military installation at Kinmen and began recording video,... Read More

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