{"id":117411,"date":"2020-12-20T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/smellicopter-tiny-drone-uses-moth-antenna-to-find-smells"},"modified":"2020-12-20T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:42:05","slug":"smellicopter-tiny-drone-uses-moth-antenna-to-find-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/smellicopter-tiny-drone-uses-moth-antenna-to-find-smells","title":{"rendered":"Smellicopter Tiny Drone Uses Moth Antenna to Find Smells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8SGx2qmo9M4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meet the Smellicopter is a tiny drone developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/07\/smellicopter-avoids-obstacles-uses-live-moth-antenna-to-smell\/\">scientists at the University of Washington<\/a>, capable of detecting smells like gas leaks, explosives, or even the survivors of a natural disaster. This amazing, obstacle avoiding UAV doesn\u2019t use a man-made sensor to smell: it uses a moth antenna to navigate towards an odor.<\/p>\n<p>A research paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-3190\/abbd81\">IOP Science<\/a> describes Smellicopter as \u201cA bio-hybrid odor-guided autonomous palm-sized air vehicle.\u201d The advantages to such a vehicle are clear: the tiny drone can travel in places that humans cannot or should not: the rubble of buildings after a natural disaster; zones where chemical leaks or spills may have occurred; or conflict zones that may contain chemical or explosive weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The truly unique aspect of this amazing little drone is the use of a moth antenna: tiny, delicate, and amazingly sensitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Smellicopter is a tiny drone developed by scientists at the University of Washington, capable of detecting smells like gas leaks, explosives, or even the survivors of a natural disaster. This amazing, obstacle avoiding UAV doesn\u2019t use a man-made sensor to smell: it uses a moth antenna to navigate towards an odor. A research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}