Six XPrize finalists emerge after testing conservation tech in Central Catchment Nature Reserve
Next year’s finals will be held at a more “remote and challenging” location. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Drones capture DNA in cutting-edge biodiversity research
Robotics and genetics researchers team up to develop a technique that could change our understanding of the Earths biodiversity.
Source: swissinfo.ch
Drone collects DNA from trees to track biodiversity
Researchers have created a new drone that can land on high-up tree branches and collect DNA to help track biodiversity.
Stefano Mintchev Landscape Research Swiss Federal Institute For Forest Swiss Federal Institute Zoo Zurich
Source: futurity.org
Drones scour tree canopy for DNA samples to monitor biodiversity
Researchers are using drones to collect traces of genetic material left behind by living organisms from the tops of trees.
Stefano Mintchev Landscape Research Swiss Federal Institute For Forest Swiss Federal Institute Zoo Zurich
Source: theiet.org
New Flying Device to Land on Tree Branches to Take DNA Samples
A flying device has been developed by scientists at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal research institute WSL. This device has the ability to land on tree branches to take samples.
Aimee Molineux Gottardo Pestalozzi Stefano Mintchev Landscape Research Swiss Federal Institute For Forest Swiss Federal
Source: azorobotics.com
Swiss eDrone helps scientists gather eDNA from branches
If you want to know which animals are present in a given location, a good way of finding out is to look for their cast-off DNA. A new drone is designed to help scientists do so, by autonomously sticking itself to tree branches.
Stefano Mintchev Landscape Research Swiss Federal Institute For Forest Loch Ness Swiss Federal Institute
Source: newatlas.com
Drone with sticky patches studies biodiversity by bumping into trees
A drone has revealed information on the animals inhabiting a tree's canopy simply by brushing against branches and collecting loose particles of environmental DNA with its sticky surfaces
Matthew Sparkes Stefano Mintchev Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology Swiss Federal Institute Science Robotics
Source: newscientist.com