While the anti-science, anti-vaxxer crowd continues to shoot up media attention with dose after dose of misguided information, low-income nations with actual medical problems face real-world problems when it comes to obtaining vaccines. Vaccines delivered by ground vehicles to people in need can often spoil before arriving due to supply-chain bottlenecks and other … [Read more...] about Study: Drone Vaccine Deliveries Save Lives
Drones For Good
Drones for Good: 3 Amazing Stories
With all the press that rogue drones get, we like to make sure that the thousands of examples of beneficial drones get some play too. Here are three amazing stories of drones for good in the news recently: helping the environment, working on search and rescue operations, and - like every superhero - saving cute puppies. Drones Reveal Illegal Logging in Monarch Butterfly … [Read more...] about Drones for Good: 3 Amazing Stories
Drone Camp is Open
How does this sound? You can spend a week working with some of the nation's top drone experts. You can learn from Air Force pilots, engineers from one of the country's leading universities, and drone experts successful in a brand new industry. For a week, you can be immersed in the design, manufacture, and operation of drones. You'll get to visit the Microsoft Technology … [Read more...] about Drone Camp is Open
‘Drones for Good’ Winner Tackles Glacier Rescue
A UAV company internationally recognized for making “Drones for Good” is now partnering with mountain rescue teams to – well -- do some good. Swiss dronemaker Flyability is teaming up with rescue workers at the Zermatt Glacier region in the Swiss Alps to explore inaccessible mountain crevasses as high as 11,000 feet -- demonstrating how drones might be used to find climbers … [Read more...] about ‘Drones for Good’ Winner Tackles Glacier Rescue
Techie Relief Group Unveils New Drone Swarm System
What are the best ways to deploy modern technology in response to the world’s worst disasters, epidemics and conflicts? For at least one relief group, the answer may be drones. HumanITas Solutions, a Quebec-based collective dedicated to a “collaborative, evidence based, field-tested and affordable solution aiming to enhance humanitarian response,” has developed a … [Read more...] about Techie Relief Group Unveils New Drone Swarm System
