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And often we'll go about this mission taking pictures or videos along the way, and usually at that point, we will go grab ourselves a cup of coffee, sit back, and relax for the next few minutes, although some of us sit back and panic for the next few minutes worrying that the drone will not return.
So what can we do with a conservation drone?
Well, when we built our first prototype drone, our main objective was to fly it over a remote rainforest in North Sumatra, Indonesia, to look for the nest of a species of great ape known as the orangutan.
And this is it; this is the first ever picture of orangutan nests taken with a drone.
This is a wild orangutan happily feeding on top of a palm tree, seemingly oblivious to our drone that was flying overhead, not once but several times.
Now oil palm is a major driver of deforestation in that part of the world, so we wanted to use this new drone technology to keep track of the spread of these plantations in Southeast Asia.
So I've told you quite a lot about what conservation drones are, how you might operate one of these drones, and what a drone could do for you.
Now a drone could be designed to perform the task much more efficiently.
This drone, carrying a special sensor, could be flown over the forest and remotely download these images from wi-fi–enabled cameras.
A drone could be used to do the same job much more efficiently.
Why not equip a drone with a scanning radio receiver, fly that over the forest canopy in a certain pattern which would allow the user or the operator to triangulate the location of these radio-collared animals remotely without having to step foot in the forest.
And finally, I would like to show you the latest version of our conservation drone.
The MAJA drone has a wingspan of about two meters.
During its mission, it can even transmit a live video feed back to a ground station laptop, which allows the user to see what the drone is seeing in real time.
This drone can stay in the air for 40 to 60 minutes, which gives it a range of up to 50 kilometers.
It was then I realized that I could also use an aerial drone to expand the worlds of bedridden people through flight, giving a sense of movement and control that is incredible.
One of my challenges as a pilot is to land the drone on our basketball hoop.
I went even further by seeing if I could use a head-mounted display, the Oculus Rift, as modified by Fighting Walrus, to have an immersive experience controlling the drone.
Chad Jenkins: Henry, all joking aside, I bet all of these people here would love to see you fly this drone from your bed in California 3,000 miles away.
We're providing affordable, off-the-shelf robot platforms such as the A.R. drone, 300 dollars, the Suitable Technologies beam, only 17,000 dollars, along with open-source robotics software so that you can be a part of what we're trying to do.
With this drone setup, we show the potential for bedridden people to once again be able to explore the outside world, and robotics will eventually provide a level playing field where one is only limited by their mental acuity and imagination, where the disabled are able to perform the same activities as everyone else, and perhaps better, and technology will even allow us to provide an outlet for many people who are presently considered vegetables.
The fourth one is a drone.
The key was to bring together young people from different backgrounds that ordinarily never have anything to do with each other, to have a conversation about how they could collaborate and to test and develop new machines and tools that could allow them to shred and strip copper instead of burning it, to mold plastic bricks and tiles, to build new computers out of components recovered from dead electronics, to build a drone.
You hear about, actually, a drone pilot, a hobbyist, was attacked two weeks ago because he was flying near a beach.
Please send a drone strike."
PillPack was just acquired by Amazon, so soon we may have same-day delivery of our drugs, delivered by drone.
But it could eventually merge and shrink to small ones that could be in your home with integrated cartridges like this that are delivered by drone.
He also runs this amazing drone mapping program, some of the images of which you can see behind me here and here.
By adapting this wing concept into a marine vehicle, we had the genesis of an ocean drone.
As the seals leave the islands and swim from left to right, they are observed to dive at a relatively shallow depth of about 20 meters, which the drone identifies is populated by small young pollock with low calorific content.
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