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The Secret Life Of Drones: AI Takes Airborne Robotic Inspections To A Higher Level

Amy Kover
June 13, 2018
High above in the treetops, flying contraptions dart in and out of the branches, buzzing as they collect vital material. Though they may sound like a swarm of hornets, they are actually more benign, industrious creatures: unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, inspecting the electrical grid.
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A Friend In High Places: New GE Company Aims To Ease Drone Industry’s Growing Pains

Fred Guterl
June 07, 2018
Think of all the work that drones could be doing right now. They could be fighting Zika-carrying mosquitos in Florida, inspecting gas pipelines in Alaska and checking the structural integrity of bridges and dams across the country. They could be rushing medical supplies to the scene of accidents, carrying people to the airport and yes, even delivering pizza. Drones — or unmanned aerial vehicles, as they’re called by people in the industry — are a revolution waiting to happen.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Thing On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 09, 2018
"Engineers at Stanford found a way to see around corners, their peers in China came up with a 3D-printing drone and scientists in England found a way to hack bacteria and turn them into drug factories. Are you ready for your weekly dose of amazing science?
 

 

Seeing Around Corners
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 19, 2018
Scientists in Pennsylvania are planning to re-engineer human immune cells to sniff out and kill cancer, a drone saved swimmers caught in rough surf in Australia, and an AI robot assistant in England found a new way to fight malaria — in toothpaste. Time to brush up on these and other remarkable developments we discovered this week.
 

 

Editing Out Cancer
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That’s Hot! Drones And High-Powered AI Technology Are Transforming Safety Inspections

Tomas Kellner
September 07, 2017
The inspector sits at the controls, eyes glued to the screen as the autonomous drone flies past working flare stacks and heated gas plumes. It buzzes from place to place, identifying corrosive spots, marking them for maintenance.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

June 23, 2017
This week, researchers unlocked the secrets of underwater stickiness by reverse-engineering octopus tentacles, mended broken bones with a pioneering new stem cell therapy and built a silicon chip that mimics the behavior of neurons to make deep-learning systems faster and more efficient.
 

Computer Chip Makes Deep-Learning Networks A Little Brighter
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

June 17, 2017
Space flight triggered amazing changes to a bunch of flatworms. Mosquitoes that carry life-threatening diseases may have met their match in a fungus engineered to sting like a scorpion. And a new drone can scoot around the world as well as any roach can. Nature has nothing on these creatures!
 

Out-Of-This-World-Worm Grows Two Heads
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Synthetic biologists at Boston University hacked human cells and made them add and subtract numbers, their peers at MIT bioprinted a bacteria-ridden fabric that will keep sweaty gym rats cool, and a team based in Boston and San Diego developed a Saran wrap-like electrode for the brain that “could lead to high performance brain machine interfaces.” This is science, not fiction.
 

A Cellular Computer?
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
May 19, 2017
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a technology that purifies water by injecting it with CO2 gas and researchers in Holland are using 3D-printed implants to correct eye defects in children. We see progress.
 

The Swarm Is Getting Smarter
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Ready For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone

Mark Wallace
March 20, 2017

UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. "There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty of reason for excitement about drones," says Mark Wallace, UPS Senior Vice President of Global Engineering and Sustainability.

 

 
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