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Leah Froats

AERIAL X-RAYS You may remember a time where you were able to order X-ray specs through comic book advertisements. Of course, those weren’t quite functional (unless we all just happened to order duds), but drones are making it possible to look through objects. Researchers in Professor Yasamin Mostofi’s lab at UC Santa Barbara developed a system by which two octocopters use Wi-Fi signals to identify objects behind brick walls. One drone consistently transmits a signal to the other drone while autonomously flying around a brick house. The other drone uses the signals’ strength to determine the shape of objects within the house. Cool, but it might be a little more difficult to sell gullible kids on the concept of two huge drones to see the bones in their hand. THIS…

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Drone 360 (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2017

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