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like and new information on the crawl of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you go your podcast you can also find us at. science. shift special how drones are helping humans during the crossfires pandemic and beyond. to cope with 900 pandemic has given drones a truce to the unmanned aerial vehicles are being used to disinfect streets remind people of lockdown measures and still of our food as well as other supplies. this is a promo clip from the irish startup motto the company was set to begin testing its food delivery by drone service in march. but then came the coronavirus. endemic

now modifying its drones to a small town called money gall instead we're delivering critical food supplies pharmacy products that happens at the trial and are kooning the cunt and. given its of drones is that they can deliver goods to lock down areas without individual people having to come into contact. 7 year old fidel my gleason order bread and milk for medications also being delivered directly toward doorstep absolutely fantastic and it's just he's delivered by joel and i thought i'd never see the day that best was hacked and he wouldn't have to get into my care and. connect as. a single drone can make up to $100.00 deliveries per day manas founder bobby healy says that if the government wants the start of can be delivering to $600.00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. what's more he says monitoring the autonomy of drones could be a job for airline pilots currently out of work because of the chronic crisis. in

the upper yard chilling 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 denies 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 cope with 900 channel inches. several african countries like qualified john experts to help overcome this malaria and unicef have 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 drone academy. deborah plans to use what she's learned during the program to help her native country malawi. many things that i learned from here we had to do we had the designing of the drones depending on the payload like. a lot of trees and it's hard to reach. being able to fly drones accurately it's important and hard to reach areas so from commuters to 5 meters over this 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 academy. 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 is really building up the john industry and being more than just pilots to this and deborah and her fellow students learn to construct a pilot drawn integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drawn data. i really feel great in the face being. basically as a woman and of. this lives not far from the academy. deborah comes from humble backgrounds herself if the drone program weren't free of charge she wouldn't be able to afford it. i mean we are finding this drill is useful to. be 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 in 2017 it opened the world's 1st drone testing corridor. here companies like martin carroll's employer can test their drone solutions. martinus testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk of flooding. it's a hard situation and because it's a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that have 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 whereas if we moved to this area could be less and less prone to flooding there was so far drug companies like arrow can't

find enough qualified personnel in africa. to me is supposed to change that you see . today is a special day for deborah 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 as her own family never had much. her uncle currently lives in a slum. he's proud of his niece and she visits him often. i didn't the number of all those students in malawi interest the very start is she is the future and he she is the 1st group that has shown interest even drawn to gold so i can see a future form allowed for. 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. more than 10 years. has been working on a. save people buried in rubble earthquake. 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. davido scott and woodson 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 personally it was not in the middle of it

disaster. of course these things. personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people we might acknowledge what. the scientists dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. and yet the professor for robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years. old so the idea of the something there whenever there is a disaster there firefighters what is your professional drive today plays. and it will finally find its way through the building and find also its way you know the free space within the building you can also for the environment localize where the victims are drawing 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 and then 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 type tunnels. the solution a drone that can adapt to its surroundings by folding and reshaping itself. 4 independently rotating propellers are attached to mobile 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. shirt. and it can reposition its arms to get through narrow passages. and. the drone flies autonomy asli using a special software that registers points on structures and follows the multiplier. this enables the drone to constantly calculate its own exact location and speed. a training ground close to. this is where we dog the swiss society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. when looking for bury person or 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 buildings 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. it's going to be. 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 to 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 and out of buildings and that would also be really important. thank.

you scott i'm wood so takes these needs to heart at the moment however he's primarily working on battery life and the drone speeds. there by that i follow it but only if you should be 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 flushable become for example you need to be able to perceive and to make the reasoning process. 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. back

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