You might say that the age of the drone is taking off. Joining me from texas a m university, corpus christi, are two experts on drones dr. Luis cifuentes and senior cody torno. Welcome. Hi. Hello. So, cody, so that were all on the same page, whats so special about drones . The interesting part about it is the fact that it is unmanned. So, we dont have a pilot actually inside a cockpit flying the vehicle. Its done in an exterior location, which is a safer option. So, hows it controlled . Its controlled via satellite usually or some type of external communication link, kind of like a longdistance r. C. Plane, except it also can be used autonomously, which means without any kind of user input. Doctor, the military has been using drones for a while now to take out terrorists. How else can drones be used . Well, there are a tremendous number of applications. One of them is called precision agriculture. Its going to make it possible for us to grow food much more efficiently, wildfire monitor
Know it by a simpler name drone. Its the hottest development in flying. You might say that the age of the drone is taking off. Joining me from texas a m University Corpus christi, are two experts on drones dr. Luis cifuentes and senior cody torno. Welcome. Hi. Hello. So, cody, so that were all on the same page, whats so special about drones . The interesting part about it is the fact that it is unmanned. So, we dont have a pilot actually inside a cockpit flying the vehicle. Its done in an exterior location, which is a safer option. So, hows it controlled . Its controlled via satellite usually or some type of external communication link, kind of like a longdistance r. C. Plane except it also can be used autonomously, which means without any kind of user input. Doctor, the military has been using drones for a while now to take out terrorists. How else can drones be used . Well, there are a tremendous number of applications. One of them is called precision agriculture. Its going to make i
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