It's the ultimate solution to the problem of drone flight endurance - harnessing mother nature's power. Researchers from the University of Washington have put a tiny sensor backpack on bees to gather aerial data. Bees are more important to farming that you might have imagined. According to the 2004 USDA piece titled, "Bee Benefits to Agriculture" the USDA tells us that … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Solution to Battery Endurance: Researchers Put Drone ‘Backpack’ on Bees to Help Gather Data for Farming
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Drone Start-Up Birdstop Expands Flight times by Easy Battery Exchanges
DroneLife had a chance to catch up with the CEO and C0-Founder Keith Miao of a new drone start-up named Birdstop.io at the Commercial UAV Expo in London recently. Keith was a member of a several panels that we participated including the ROI of Drones. We caught up at the show. The Palo Alto, California based drone start-up builds autonomous battery exchange stations … [Read more...] about Drone Start-Up Birdstop Expands Flight times by Easy Battery Exchanges
