Ukraine ramps up mobilisation to replenish troop numbers more than 28 months since Russia's invasion. But Ukrainian men are becoming less eager to fight amid waning public enthusiasm for wartime service. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has lowered the draft age to 25 from 27 in April and signed off on an overhaul of the mobilisation process that entered force in May. A network of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops across Ukraine is reportedly leveraging innovation to create a robot army that the country hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians. Defence startups across the country – about 250 according to industry estimates – are reportedly creating the killing machines at secret locations that typically look like rural car repair shops, according to an Associated Press news investigation.

Enter increasingly affordable and sophisticated drones and miniaturized geophysical sensors. The Binghamton team's first focus: the Russian-made PFM-1 mine, a device just five inches across, made largely of plastic, and shaped like a butterfly. Designed to be dropped from the air in large numbers, they flutter gently to the ground like flocks of birds, and await the unwary. Designed mainly to maim, not kill, they are difficult to spot with a magnetometer, because they contain little metal. And because they resemble plastic toys, many children handle them, and get blown up.

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Outfield Technologies is a Cambridge-based agri-tech start-up company which uses drones and artificial intelligence, to help fruit growers maximise their harvest from orchard crops. Outfield Technologies' founders Jim McDougall and Oli Hilbourne have been working with Ph.D. student Tom Roddick from the Department's Machine Intelligence Laboratory to develop their technology capabilities to be able to count the blossoms and apples on a tree via drones surveying enormous apple orchards…

Outfield Technologies is a Cambridge-based agri-tech start-up company which uses drones and artificial intelligence, to help fruit growers maximise their harvest from orchard crops. Outfield Technologies' founders Jim McDougall and Oli Hilbourne have been working with Ph.D. student Tom Roddick from the Department's Machine Intelligence Laboratory to develop their technology capabilities to be able to count the blossoms and apples on a tree via drones surveying enormous apple orchards. "An accurate assessment of the blossom or estimation of the harvest allows growers to be more productive, sustainable and environmentally friendly", explains Outfield's commercial director Jim McDougall. "Our aerial imagery analysis focuses on yield estimation and is really sought after internationally. One of the biggest problems we're facing in the fruit sector is accurate yield forecasting. This system has been developed with growers to plan labour, logistics and storage. It's needed throughout the industry, to plan marketing and distribution, and to ensure that there are always apples on the shelves. Estimates are currently made by growers, and they do an amazing job, but orchards are incredibly variable and estimates are often wrong by up to 20%. This results in lost income, inefficient operations and can result in substantial amount of wastage in unsold crop."

With all the new technology at our disposal, it seems counterintuitive that 911 dispatch times have increased by as much as 10 percent in some areas, but it's true. Dispatching was traditionally a reactive task, but modern technology and all its sources of information has complicated that task, foisting on 911 call-takers streams of information, some of it accurate, some of it inaccurate and second- and third-hand and forcing call-takers to decide on its value. With all this information cluttering up the system, what's needed is a process of curation to synthesize that information. That's the key to Next Gen 911, said Lawrence Hicks, vice president of engineering for InterTalk Critical Information Systems, in a keynote address at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) in Las Vegas Thursday. "'911' is a motto for'seconds count,'" Hicks said, but 911 dispatchers are suffering from information overload from a "fire hose" of information from different sources.

Inspired by listening one of the episodes of the podcast Data Crunch by Vault Analytics, on the topic: "Drones and AI", it came to my mind how drones are being used nowadays, not only as a hobby but for commercial purposes, too. Drones are getting popular in the community and different industries such as film and photography. Game of Thrones TV show pays a lot of money to get amazing shots! You can get more interesting photos using a drone than a traditional camera. Just imagine the unique perspective from a drone's view, they definitely offer impressive and incredible shots.

They went mainstream only a few years ago, but drones are already making a big splash in the market. Thanks to the ability to buy them off of a shelf, drones are being adapted for commercial use. There are only so many human controllers can do though and, future drone models may not see this limitation thanks to the use of AI, freelance blogger Jake Carter tells us more. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has existed for some time now. If we could develop an AI that could operate drones without humans, what could this mean?

While much has been written about the impact of drones and artificial intelligence in P/C insurance over the last few years, the first real test of these emerging technologies didn't occur until the 2017 hurricane season. After Hurricane Irma battered Florida, reinsurers and insurers of all sizes (small, mid-sized and top ten) looked to facilitate their claims processing through the use of drones and artificial intelligence. One of the most critical factors in post-catastrophe claims processing is capturing and documenting the situation on the ground. Traditionally, this is done using on-the-ground claims adjusters and is supplemented by imagery captured from airplanes or satellites. Using Drones for Hurricane Irma Damage Assessment One of the benefits of drones is that they can quickly and safely capture many high-resolution photos after catastrophes.