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With Drones, Researchers Hope to Save Lives

Drones have earned international notoriety for their ability to kill and destroy. But two University of North Texas professors have developed one with a much different goal in mind: saving lives, especially those of victims of disasters and emergencies.

By Lauren Silverman, KERA News
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Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi engineering student Adam Ersepke and lab coordinator Jack Edward Esparza prepare for the take off of the University’s RS-16 unmanned aerial vehicle, otherwise known as a drone, for a test flight over the Kennedy Ranch near Sarita, Texas on January 18, 2013.
Credit: Eddie Seal

Drones have earned international notoriety for their ability to kill and destroy. But two University of North Texas professors have developed one with a much different goal in mind: saving lives, especially those of victims of disasters and emergencies.  Read the full story at KERA News.

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