patrolling the gold coast since last summer, westpac little ripper drones have been surveilling for sharksartificial intelligence software called the sharkspotter, which is scarily effective. we have more than 90% accuracy with sharks. a trained human operator flying on a helicopter has accuracy around 20—30%. 90% accuracy! the programme uses object recognition to identify and decipher between people and marine life, and it gets smarter as it goes. we have to draw boxes around each of the objects and say what kind of, or what type of object is that? it has to be done — it's a manual process. how long does that take? well, it takes a long time. we have annotated manually more than 20,000 frames and used it for training and testing our programme. once a shark is detected, the drone hovers near swimmers and warns them via an on board loudspeaker that it's nearby. huge swells and the waves means that sending outjet skis or human divers is really too dangerous, and pretty much pointless. but having an eye in the sky can really help. when you have the bird's eye view, you can easily identify and

patrolling the gold coast since last summer, westpac little ripper drones have been surveilling for sharkss. they work with a custom piece of artificial intelligence software called the shark spotter, which is scarily effective. we have more than 90% accuracy with sharks. a trained human operator flying on a helicopter has accuracy around 20—30%. 90% accuracy! the programme uses object recognition to identify and decipher between people and marine life, and it gets smarter as it goes. once a shark is detected, the drone hovers near swimmers and warns them via an on board loudspeaker that it's nearby. klaxon sounds. huge swells and the waves means that sending outjet skis or human divers is really too dangerous, and pretty much pointless. but having an eye in the sky can really help. when you have the bird's eye view, you can easily identify and tell the difference between sharks, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, but also, it has been really good for search and rescues where a drone can find a patient, especially in high seas, high swell, it can tell you exactly where the patient is and proba

patrolling the gold coast since last summer, westpac little ripper drones have been surveilling for sharkstor flying on a helicopter has accuracy around 20—30%. 90% accuracy! the programme uses object recognition to identify and decipher between people and marine life, and it gets smarter as it goes. once a shark is detected, the drone hovers near swimmers and warns them via an on board loudspeaker that it's nearby. huge swells and the waves means that sending outjet skis or human divers is really too dangerous, and pretty much pointless. but having an eye in the sky can really help. when you have the bird's eye view, you can easily identify and tell the difference between sharks, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, but also, it has been really good for search and rescues where a drone can find a patient, especially in high seas, high swell, it can tell you exactly where the patient is and probably the best way to get them back to shore as well. earlier this year, the world's first drone rescue was successfully completed by one of their fleet. took off, flew down the beach about 800 metres, fou