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Michigan Medicine To Use Drones To Deliver Medicine To Your Doorstep

May 4, 2023 | Drones, Healthcare, Michigan

Medicine delivered straight to your doorstep? Starting next year, that will be possible. Each year, the University of Michigan’s Michigan Medicine delivers close to 125,000 prescriptions to patients. Soon, it will add one more method of delivery … drones....

Dead Birds Are Flying Again — This Time, As Drones

Apr 20, 2023 | Drones

On a New Mexico college campus, there’s a large field that many birds fly over. Lately, some of those birds have been dead. Mostafa Hassanalian, an engineering professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, is using drone technology to lift dead birds...

The Role Of High Payload Drones In Agriculture As Flying Robots

Apr 13, 2023 | Agriculture, Drones, Robots

Drones are being used for an ever widening range of agricultural applications enabled by new technology and diminishing regulatory constraints. Most current drone options are small, battery powered units and when equipped with cameras or other sensors and they are...

Crazy Shapeshifting Drone Inspired By Dragons Forces Itself Around Objects

Mar 30, 2023 | Drones

Graduate students at the University of Tokyo have outdone themselves and are changing the way we look at drones with their newest invention. They created a group of futuristic-looking drone prototypes that can change their structural shape midair. As you will see in...

Observing Group-Living Animals With Drones And Computer Vision

Mar 23, 2023 | Computer Vision, Drones

A drone is flying over a herd of plains zebras in central Kenya. It is flying quite high so that the animals are not bothered by it. These zebras are really interesting for collective and spatial behavior studies, according to the researchers Ben Koger and Blair...

Drone Company To Make Deliveries By Lowering Small Droid Into Your Yard

Mar 16, 2023 | Defense, Drones

For years, a drone company called Zipline has made deliveries using a fairly traditional approach: An uncrewed aircraft with an 11-foot wingspan drops off a package with a parachute, and it descends to the ground thanks to the predictable presence of...