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Drone Challenge

Nick Kwek heads to the world's most advanced drone challenge in the Australian outback - a few hours outside of Brisbane - the "Medical Express 2016".

Nick Kwek goes to the world's most advanced drone challenge in the Australian outback - a few hours outside of Brisbane - the "Medical Express 2016" - the idea being that a stranded ill patient is stuck in the outback cut off from floods - and a drone can autonomously find the patient, land beside them, and have instructions for the patient to insert a blood sample into it, press a button, and then it will return to base. It is one of the most realistic and difficult in that is covers 40km - teams from around the world literally invented new UAV technology to help them complete the challenge. Marc Cieslak went to downtown San Francisco to visit an advanced Augmented Reality Glasses firm which contracts for the US government. Given the popularity of Pokemon Go, they developed a platform for the game to work on the glasses - which they say makes the game safer as people aren't looking down at phone, but through a pair of glasses so they can see any oncoming objects/obstruction. The team also go behind the scenes of NASCAR - looking at the new tech used in bringing the popular car racing sport to the twenty-first century.

30 minutes

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Tue 8 Nov 2016 01:30GMT

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