This Drone Aircraft Could Save Lives

Primary tabs

This Drone Aircraft Could Save Lives

Submitted by Samuel Bendett

Gizmodo.com - September 7th, 2012 - Brent Rose

We generally hear about drone aircraft killing people in war zones. But there's a reverse side to that narrative—an autonomous copter can drop medicine and supplies to people stranded after a natural disaster even when roads have been demolished. A humanitarian group called Ideate recently tested drones' viability as a real-world delivery vehicle in one of the harshest, most brutal environments imaginable—Burning Man.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Groups this Group Post belongs to: 
Workflow history
Revision ID Field name Date Old state New state name By Comment Operations
No state No state
howdy folks
Page loaded in 0.480 seconds.