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comes to the fans of the human seem right to fold who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson and i work a deal. shift special how drones are helping humans during the krona virus pandemic and beyond. to cope with 900 pandemic has given drones acoustic piano and aerial vehicles are being used to disinfect streets and remind people of lockdown measures and still of her food as well as other supplies. this is a promo clip from the irish start up mondo the company was set to begin testing its food delivery by drone service in march. but then came the. virus pandemic

now modifying its drones to a small town called money gall instead we're delivering critical food supplies to farms who thought the city inhabitants of the town the coon injure in the. new branch of drones that they can deliver goods to lock down areas without individual people having to come into contact. 70 year old fidel like lisa in order bread and milk her medications also being delivered directly toward doorstep it's absolutely fantastic and it's just a different i thought i'd never see a good day at best which happened as i wouldn't have my care and. connectors. a single drone can make up to $100.00 deliveries per day manas founder bobby healey says that if the government wants the start of could be delivering to $600.00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. what's more huli says monitoring the autonomy drones could be a job for airline pilots currently out of work because of the chronic crisis. in

supper yard she like its municipal workers who are operating drones the beach town began using drones for ocean rescues to monitor forest and brush fires. now drones are also supplying elderly people in remote areas with medications disinfectant and facemasks the nearest pharmacy is about 2 hours away on foot. nobody got out this resident says it's necessary for them to come to us where we live is remote but the distance doesn't count only the goodwill of the people. these examples show how creative individuals worldwide are using the technology to help overcome 1000. separate african countries like qualified john experts to help overcome this allowing unicef i found at the african john and data academy where young africans can learn to build and operate drones.

deborah is getting a flying lesson. she's one of the 1st students at africa's 1st drawn academy. deborah plans to use what she has learned during the program to help her native country malawi. there's so many things that i learnt from here that we had to do we had in the designing of the jones designing of the payload like dropping payload in a few days is a lot of trees and it's hard to reach area. being able to fly drones actually is important and hard to reach areas so from commuters to 5 meters over 10 meter range . the curriculum demands a lot from the 26 students currently enrolled around half are female most and all

are from africa this was one of unicef's conditions for financially supporting the economy. africa many times has been far behind in technology and we think drones are the future we want them to start their own businesses join current businesses just really building up the journey industry and being more than just pilots to this and deborah and her fellow students learn to construct a pilot drones integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drawn data. grades in the face place. basically as a woman and of course do presenting. this lab is not far from the academy deborah comes from humble background herself if the drone program weren't free of charge she wouldn't be able to afford it. i don't think we are finding these drones use a full of the information. the disease outbreaks at some

point and. challenges season by season different of. also because of these different seasonal agricultural challenges malawi hopes drones can help protect small farmers like david george. the country is spearheaded using drones and data and 2017 it opened the world's 1st drone testing corridor. here companies like martin carroll's employer arrow contest they're drawing solutions. martin is testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk from flooding. it's a hard situation and because you know it's. a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that they've grown up and i don't want to move our goal is to be able to provide the evidence showing that you know this is prone to flooding and this is where it could happen where if we move to this area could be less and less prone to flooding. so far drug companies like arrow can't find enough

qualified personnel in africa the academy is supposed to change that. today is a special day for debra her presentation on digital maps as part of her final exam if everything works out she'll soon be a qualified drone pilot and technician. to specialize in land surveying in order to help alleviate hunger and starvation in malawi she knows what it means to be poor and her own family never had much. her uncle currently lives in a slum he's proud of his niece and she visits him often. students in the interest the. she's the future and the she's. group that has. drawn to. see a future for. the drone industry looks set to grow rapidly and deborah hopes to be

a part of it she wants to found her own company that works with drones focused on helping those in need in malawi and beyond. has been working on a. save people. in the summer of 2016 these images from central italy shocked the world. the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 buried hundreds of people and destroyed entire villages. davida scott i'm with son knows the pictures all too well he grew up in a region often affected by earthquakes. these events are actually shocking fortunately i was never actually affected me personally it was not in the middle of

it disaster. of course these things that you personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people that might make knowledge of what. the scientists dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. and yeah the professor for robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years old so the idea that all should be something where you got that disaster. for your 5 year sort of soup of action all right today plays all these aster and it all finally finds its way through the building. find all sorts way you know the space within the building you can also mop the environment localize where the victims are lying and then find its way out from the building.

the design is already largely completed the small drone has been equipped with cameras that it uses to scan the surroundings an onboard computer analyzes the captured images and extracts prominent reference points to create a detailed 3 d. map. this allows it to locate potential survivors of course the drone also needs to reach them and that presented a problem. earthquakes can reduce everything to rubble in order to reach people trapped within a drone would have to be able to get through narrow passages and tight tunnels. the solution a drone that can adapt to its surroundings by folding and reshaping itself. for independently rotating propellers are attached immobile arms thanks to servo motors these can swivel around the main body allowing the drone to fold into an ocean to pass through holes. to

inspect an object from up close you can turn into a t. shape. and it can reposition its arms to get through narrow passages. and. the drone flies autonomy sleep using a special software that registers points on structures and follows them offline. this enables the drone to constantly calculate its own exact location and speed. a training ground close to. this is where re dog the swiss society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. when looking for berry person after an earthquake nothing beats a dog's nose but there are limits if a building is at risk of collapsing the mission is too dangerous for humans and animals. re doc thinks these are situations where

a drone could be useful. although the drone is foldable which is great because it can enter a building through tiny openings and that's really important as pathways can be very small. autonomy's flying is another great feature as cable is communications and connections often get interrupted in the rubble. we don't use his telescope cameras to look inside buildings. but these can only extend some 5 meters after that there's no way forward. i think drones would be great as one of several tools for instance if i use the camera and realize that there's a large hollow space in that i can't go further but i need tunes in the drone is a great addition. another helpful feature would be a microphone with intercom peters that way i could communicate with somebody very

far away inside a building but that would also be really important. women's wish to. take these needs to heart at the moment however he's primarily working on battery life and the drone speed. by that i forward that only strictly between 20 and 30 minutes that means if you want to be able to fly fast fast but you know if. there are many obstacles should overcome for example you need to be able to see fast and to make good reason to think so at the moment of working on these 2 big problems. the robotics professor will continue researching and in a couple of years his dream of the perfect rescue drone may well be a reality. in

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