How to use drones responsibly in Kakadu
Indigenous-led guidelines are necessary for conservation technology.
Drones have transformed conservation and land management over the past decade, making it easier than ever to collect ...
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How do mass drone displays work?
The Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremony showed the spectacular potential of drones to join the party. ...
As Australia burned through 2019’s devastating Black Summer, a Change.org petition circulated calling for the cancell...
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Video: COVID-monitoring drones
Australian researchers build drones to remotely monitor health signs.
What do you get when you combine COVID-19, drones, cameras and AI?https://www.youtube.com/embed/eKSLs7lNl0Q Rese...
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Swift by design, drone by nature
Ornithopters not just a flight of fancy.
Hovering, darting, gliding, diving and braking, the fleet-winged contraption in the video below is at the cutting edg...
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Next-gen drones could bee like this
Agility and perception the keys to navigating tight spots
An Australian-led team says it has uncovered the secret to the agile flight of the bumblebee, which could influence t...
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Bubbles for plants and drones for mosquitoes
Two novel ways of delivering the goods.
The answer to most things these days is an app or a drone, so it’s rare when one of these falls short of the mark, le...
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New solution to weighty issue
Using drones to learn more about large cetaceans.
There’s always been a problem with checking the mass, length and various other characteristics of wild whales.Probl...
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Orca will change US battle-readiness
Looking ahead to the era of the XLUUV.
There’s no doubt drones are becoming lynchpins in the future of US warfare. Barack Obama authorised 506 drone strikes...
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Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s your retail delivery
NASA builds drone-management software as numbers grow.
Modelling suggests that within a year or so there will be about 400,000 commercial drones operating in the US, alongs...
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Drone, self-driving vehicle energy savings overstated, reports find
Two studies find autonomous transport less efficient than predicted. Andrew Masterson reports.
Autonomous vehicles and drones could reduce greenhouse gases and energy use in the transport sector, two reports show...
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Drone shadows jellyfish
Drones help researchers track jellyfish swarms.
A quadcopter drone photographs a swarm of jellyfish and its own shadow. Keith Holmes / Hakai InstituteAs the world...