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How These AI-Powered Drones Assist In Disaster Management

Shapeshifting AI-powered drones with the power to track human screams or natural odours might seem lifted straight from a dystopian novel or a movie with post-apocalyptic themes. Well, not in this case. For some time now, drones have been used for search and rescue missions to capture aerial images of the damage, scan for body heat and supply medicines & food to isolated areas. Now, Germany’s Fraunhofer FKIE institute engineers have kicked it up a notch and built an AI-powered drone prototype to detect human screams. The drone’s purpose is to search for people caught in the debris in the event of a natural disaster. I hear you Macarena Varela, one of the lead engineers behind the prototype, explained the technology at an annual conference hosted by the Acoustic Society of
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Avi Gopani
Avi Gopani is a technology journalist that seeks to analyse industry trends and developments from an interdisciplinary perspective at Analytics India Magazine. Her articles chronicle cultural, political and social stories that are curated with a focus on the evolving technologies of artificial intelligence and data analytics.
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