Drones with high-tech sensors track disease in Italy's olive trees
15 April 2022
A new high-tech strategy will help monitor crops for infection with Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that has devastated the olive industry in southern Italy
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Russia and Ukraine are both weaponising mobile phones to track troops
11 April 2022
Mobile phones ping signals to nearby communications towers, allowing both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers to track the movement of opposition forces
Drones and AI help find pebble-sized meteorite that landed in 2021
11 March 2022
Locating meteorites on Earth’s surface is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but using AI to analyse images captured by drones pinpointed a tiny space rock in just four days
Collision-dodging drones can navigate tight spaces without crashing
9 March 2022
Two teams of engineers have taken separate approaches to enable drones to carry out research or rescue operations with a reduced risk of crashing
Easter Islanders relied on freshwater springs under the sea to survive
4 March 2022
Surveys of Easter Island show that ancient settlements and the sites of the island’s famous giant statues are situated close to freshwater springs that are only accessible at low tide
Drones armed with a small microwave weapon can shoot down other drones
14 February 2022
A compact weapon that generates a beam of microwaves can knock out electronic devices without causing harm to people
Meet the amateur drone pilots defending Ukraine’s border with Russia
11 February 2022
As tensions rise in Ukraine with Russian troops arriving at the border in increasing numbers, a small army of amateur engineers is monitoring events using homemade drones equipped with sensors and old Soviet missiles
AI can spot wounded wild animals and poachers in camera trap footage
25 January 2022
An AI designed to detect bed sores in digital images has been used to identify wounded animals in camera trap footage, and can also detect poachers
Portable laser scanner creates colour 3D images of surfaces or objects
14 January 2022
Lidar uses lasers to create 3D images, but these can be hard to interpret because they are black and white. A new scanner adds cameras to make colour images that could be useful for infrastructure inspection or robot vision
Robots can use their own whirring to echolocate and avoid collisions
18 November 2021
Instead of using sophisticated sensors to detect their surroundings and navigate safely, drones and robots could listen for reflections of their own mechanical noises
