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Another example of how a drone can be a lifesaver, rather than a killer, comes from a group of young engineers in Iran whose robotics expertise has been put to work developing an alternative to human lifeguards along the Caspian Sea coast, where more than a thousand people drown every year. Their drone can speedily fly to swimmers in trouble and drop three life preservers.
Another example of how a drone can be a lifesaver, rather than a killer, comes from a group of young engineers in Iran whose robotics expertise has been put to work developing an alternative to human lifeguards along the Caspian Sea coast, where more than a thousand people drown every year.
Their company in Tehran, RTS Labs, demonstrated a drone in August that can speedily fly to swimmers in trouble and drop up to three life preservers. A rescue that took a trained lifeguard 91 seconds to complete took the PARS drone 22 seconds.
The developers are looking for funding to further implement their lifeguard drone, called PARS, and are developing another to help clean up oil spills.
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