Information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. One slash science. Shift special how drones are helping humans during the krona virus pandemic and beyond. The covered 900 pandemic has given drones acoustic piano and aerial vehicles are being used to disinfect streets and remind people of lockdown measures im still of her food as well as of his attacks. This is a promo clip from the irish startup mana the company was set to begin testing its food delivery by Drone Service in march. But then came the coronavirus pandemic now modifying its drones to a small town called money call it step for delivering critical Food Supplies farm sick. Obsidian happens at the trial and a cooling jury in the cunt and. Give me an inch of drones that they can deliver goods to lock down areas without individual people having to come into contact. 70 year old fidel my gleason ordered bread and milk for medications also being delivered directly toward doorstep absolutely fantastic and its different by joel and i thought id never see the day at 1st what happened is they wouldnt have my care and. Just. 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 could be delivering to 600. 00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. Whats more he says monitoring the autonomy drones could be a job for Airline Pilots currently out of work because of the chronic crisis. In sup a yacht she like 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. Now this resident says its necessary for them to come to us where we live is remote but the distance doesnt count only the goodwill of the people. These examples show how creative individuals worldwide are using the technology to help overcome 1000. Separate african countries like qualified john experts to help overcome this allowing unicef i found at the african cademy where Young Africans can learn to build and operate drones. Deborah is getting a flying lesson. Shes one of the 1st students at africas 1st drawn academy. Deborah plans to use what shes learned during the program to help her native country. Many things going. From here we had we had the designing of the drones depending on the payload. Trees and its hard to reach and. Being able to fly drones accurately is important and hard to reach areas so from commuters to 5 meters over 10 meter range. The curriculum demands a lot from the 26 students carving in roll around half are female most and all are from africa this was one of unicefs 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 joint industry and being more than just pilots to this and her fellow students learn to construct a pilot wrong integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drawing data. Grades in the 1st place. Basically as a woman and as youre presenting. This law its not far from the academy. Deborah comes from humble backgrounds herself if the Drone Program werent free of charge she wouldnt be able to afford it. We are finding this drill is useful to. Be disease outbreaks at some point and. Challenges season by season different of them. Also because of these different Seasonal Agricultural challenges malawi hopes drones can help protect Small Farmers like david george. The country has spearheaded using drones and data. In 2017 it opened the worlds 1st drone testing corridor. Here Companies Like martin carrolls employer can test their drone solutions. Martin is testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk from flooding. Its a hard situation because you know its a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that theyve grown up and i dont 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 that is so far drug Companies Like arrow cant find enough qualified personnel in africa the academy 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 shell soon be a qualified drone pilot and technician. Deborah wants to specialize in Land Surveying in order to help alleviate hunger and starvation in malawi she knows what it means to be poor and her own family never had much. Her uncle currently lives in a slum hes proud of his niece and she visits him often. I didnt number all students in malawi interest the very start is she is the future and he she is in the 1st group that has shown interest even drawn to go well just 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. To help save people buried in rubble earthquakes often cost many human lives. 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. 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 nobody to me that all of these austerity bought of course these things that you personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people that might acknowledge what. The scientists dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. And yeah the professor for robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years. Old so the idea that all should be something that whenever there is a disaster there firefighters sort of see it but the action i drive today plays off. 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 mop the environment. 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 and onboard computer 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. For 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 from. To inspect an object from up close you can turn into a teaching and. I mean. In the. End you can reposition its arms to the through narrow passages. And then the drone flies autonomy slowly 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 re dog the Swiss Society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. When looking for bury persons after an earthquake nothing beats a dogs nose but there are limits if a building is at risk of collapsing the mission is too dangerous for humans and animals re dog things 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 thats really important as pathways can be very small. Autonomys flying is another great feature as cable is communications and connections often get interrupted in the rubble. We dont use his telescope cameras to look inside buildings. But these can only extend some 5 meters after that theres no way forward. Its going to force. I think drones would be great as one of several tools for instance if i use the camera and realize that theres a large hollow space in that i cant go further but i need to than the drone is a great addition. Another helpful feature would be a microphone with intercom peters and that way i could communicate with somebody very far away inside a building and that would also be really important the smell oakley monthly stick. To scott im wood so takes these needs to heart at the moment however hes primarily working on battery life and the drone speed. By that i follow it but only if you should between 20 and 30 minutes that means if you want to be able to fly fast fast you know if. There are many obstacles flusher will become for example you need to be able to see fossett and to make the reasoning process thoughtful think 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. Its manuel being here on the racetrack with a for sure came in. The Perfect Place to test those high powered vehicles. But is it somehow a bit behind the times electra mobility in sports cars of course its a nervous question of bread. Slip. Listen carefully to. The soon. To be a good. Action. Discovered. Subscribe to my documentary on you tube. Pledge. We are living during the most extraordinary time in history