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Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor
Underwater unmanned vehicles that scour the ocean floor for submerged mines can now beam back their images to human operators in close to real-time
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Eyes on the skies: ensuring drones enhance city life
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Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets
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Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals
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Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane
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Tiny 3D-printed camera lens could give drones vision like ours
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Bat-inspired robot swoops and dives like the real thing
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Whale sharks’ secrets revealed by live-tracking aquatic drones
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US army wants to fire swarm of weaponised drones from a missile
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Drones inspired by insects could keep flying even when damaged
Fruit flies keep flying even after losing a wing. Drone designers can use their secrets to keep flying robots airborne in tough conditions
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Amazon makes its first Prime Air drone delivery to a customer
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Drones will fly life-saving blood supplies to clinics in Rwanda
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Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight
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Drones get first anti-laser lasers to stop being shot down
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