Forget driverless cars. One company wants autonomous helicopters to spray crops and fight fires

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Forget driverless cars. One company wants autonomous helicopters to spray crops and fight fires - Business Mirror

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When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few "nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night.

The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Koch doesn’t envision the unmanned aircraft replacing all the the company’s dozens of pilots but rather taking over the riskiest jobs.“The biggest draw is taking the pilot out of the aircraft inside of those most dangerous situations,” Koch said.“There’s still fields that are surrounded by trees on all borders, or you’ve got big, large power lines or other just dangers, wind turbines, things like that.