(Source: BBC) How do you deliver food and medicine to people in an area where a cargo plane would be shot down? It was a question that kept US Air Force pilot Mark Jacobsen awake at night after he met Syrian refugees in Turkey. Then he had an idea - a swarm of tiny drones, each delivering 1kg or 2kg at a time. On an airfield in Sacramento a group of aircraft enthusiasts … [Read more...] about Bringing Aid to a War Zone in a Swarm of Drones
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In Syria, Drones with a New Mission
(Source: 3drobotics.com) This past March, Mark Jacobsen, a PhD candidate in Political Science at Stanford, spent a week in Turkey conducting field research among Syrian refugees and activists. At that time the sieges by the Syrian government were at their worst, and the refugees Mark spoke with told him tragic stories, venting their frustration with the U.S. for not … [Read more...] about In Syria, Drones with a New Mission
