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  • Drones are playing a critical role in Milton and Helene recovery

    Mack DeGeurin

    October 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    A variety of organizations are using drones to find missing persons and airdrop supplies in response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. A Walmart in North Carolina, for example, sends necessary prescriptions and resources to a nearby senior center with a drone from its commercial drone delivery program.

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  • Precision agriculture promises rural farmers efficiency, but barriers hold local implementation back

    Elijah de Castro

    October 06, 2024 |

    The People-Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    Farmers are transitioning to precision agriculture to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The practice uses technology like artificial intelligence, satellite imagery, and soil probes to collect and analyze data so farmers know how to manage specific parts of their fields.

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  • Slow Steps Through a Minefield

    Oleksandr Tartachnyi

    August 16, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    MinesEye is prototyping a drone, which has conducted more than a hundred flights, to help Ukrainians identify mines and other potentially dangerous objects deposited in agriculture fields. The drone and its software combine data from aerial photography, magnetometers, and infrared cameras. As of reporting, the system found 18% of the 146 explosive devices planted using its cameras, and adding magnetic scanning data to the analysis, the hit rate rose to 90% of metal-containing projectiles.

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  • Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the 'Last Mile'

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    July 09, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    The Zipline drone system helps deliver life-saving medical supplies, such as blood and antivenom, to areas in the country that are hard to reach due to issues with the terrain, infrastructure or extreme weather. Since launching, Zipline has made more than one million deliveries.

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  • My robot and I: Japanese stories of technology and old age

    Gonzalo Robledo

    July 06, 2024 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

    Seniors in nursing homes and hospitals in Japan are often accompanied by a variety of robots designed to help prevent loneliness, cognitive decline, and the loss of mobility. A social robot might encourage them to dance while robot dogs and seals take the place of a pet without the responsibilities.

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  • The High-Tech Tools That Can Bust Careless Oil and Gas Drillers

    Jennifer Oldham

    June 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Iraq

    To help reduce methane emissions, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative invested in high-tech satellites that can detect equipment leaks that might otherwise be missed. The leaks identified and addressed thanks to the satellites accounted for the equivalent of one million tons of carbon dioxide.

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  • Indian women take to the skies as drone pilots

    Juhi Chaudhary

    May 21, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: India

    About 10,000 women from rural areas in India are training to be agricultural drone pilots as a part of the government-run Drone Didi program. The job provides them with financial independence and greater respect from their communities.

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  • Bees vs. drones: How tech is tackling crop pollination

    Nita Bhalla Rina Chandran

    April 02, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Australia, Two Wells

    As bee populations decline, farmers who practice covered agriculture are flying drones over their crops — which vibrates the plants' flowers to disperse the pollen — to pollinate them instead.

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  • Managing predators from the sky

    Kylie Mohr

    April 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Researchers and livestock farmers in Montana are using drones with speakers that play human voices to scare off predators and mitigate conflict between the animals.

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  • The Smart Heart: How AI Is Sharpening Cardiovascular Medicine

    Michaela Haas

    March 01, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, Minnesota

    Several hospitals are beginning to use artificial intelligence, like Chat GPT’s medical assistant Suzanne, to make cardiovascular medicine more accurate and effective. AI can detect illnesses that are hard to see with the human eye, interpret test results and make diagnoses quicker and help doctors provide more effective treatment to patients. Since AI emerged in healthcare in 2018, the FDA has approved about 700 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices.

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