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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

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How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the USDA had worked with NASA and labs at Purdue University and the University of Michigan to develop new ways to identify crops from high-altitude aircraft and satellites.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

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Tom Howard , who directs the University of Rochester's Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and has developed natural-language interaction algorithms for RoMan and other ground robots. The question when programming an intelligent robot is, at what practical size do those deep-learning building blocks exist?"