Bristol robotics team lands $500,000 for wildfire-fighting drone swarm
A University of Bristol robotics team has won $500,000 (£377,000) in the global XPRIZE Wildfire competition for autonomous drone technology that can detect and respond to wildfires within minutes.
The team is part of AURA Foresight, an international collaboration that demonstrated its system by deploying a fully autonomous swarm of drones to respond to potential fires within 10 minutes across a 270-square-mile wilderness area in Alaska in June.
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