The Australian-British team met the competition's 10-minute detection gate during Finals Testing near Nenana, Alaska, linking fixed cameras, AI and drone swarms into a single detect, verify and act chain. Fire Foresight, a Tasmanian wildfire intelligence company, received a $500,000 award in the Autonomous Wildfire Response track of the XPRIZE Wildfire competition as part of … [Read more...] about Fire Foresight Wins $500,000 XPRIZE Wildfire Award
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Anti-Landmine Drones May Save Thousands of Lives
We don’t tend to think about them much but unexploded landmines are a deadly problem looming over large populations all over the world. According to CARE, more than 110 million landmines lay buried in the ground around the world, resulting in 70 lives lost or injured per day at any given location. Now, a British university team has developed an innovative to find and … [Read more...] about Anti-Landmine Drones May Save Thousands of Lives
University of Bristol Uses UAV Technology for Atmospheric Research
(Source: bristol.ac.uk) A team of scientists and engineers sampling greenhouse gases in the remote South Atlantic have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with lightweight fully autonomous UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) by flying octocopters at altitudes of up to 9,000ft. The researchers, from the University of Bristol, University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway, … [Read more...] about University of Bristol Uses UAV Technology for Atmospheric Research
