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Drones Used At Construction Sites
Drones are supposed to gross upwards of $82 billion US dollars and create 100,000 new jobs by the year 2025. With this massive potential, many companies are beginning to use drones today for a wide variety of tasks that would have been difficult or expensive to accomplish before. This shift towards technology means that drone skills will be a very marketable job skill in the near future. A company...
Drones to Revolutionize the Telecommunications Industry
While drones have been in use for industry for nearly thirty years, only in recent years has the cost of parts and assembly gone down enough to make them commercially viable for things like telecommunications support. In fact, drones or UAVs, are considered to be the future of many industries including telecommunications. Major US cellular companies like Verizon and T-Mobile are using drones to in...
Fixed Wing Drones Used to Monitor Radiation Contamination
Officials in Nevada are piloting a program to use fixed winged drones to sniff out radiation from a nuclear accident similar to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan. The use of these unmanned aircraft will greatly reduce the risk to officials who are called upon to test for radiation. This team has traditionally used Bell helicopters and Beechcraft airplanes for monitoring radiation contamination,...