{"id":155000,"date":"2023-01-09T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-drone-that-never-lands-scientists-in-china-test-lasers-to-keep-drones-aloft-forever"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:27:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T20:27:52","slug":"a-drone-that-never-lands-scientists-in-china-test-lasers-to-keep-drones-aloft-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-drone-that-never-lands-scientists-in-china-test-lasers-to-keep-drones-aloft-forever","title":{"rendered":"A drone that never lands? Scientists in China test lasers to keep drones aloft \u2018forever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-drone-that-never-lands-scientists-in-china-test-lasers-to-keep-drones-aloft-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The method would charge drones while their airborne, meaning they would never have to land.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in China has developed a method for using high-energy laser beams to keep drones airborne \u201cforever,\u201d according to a report from The South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p>Laser-powered drones could remain aloft \u201cforever\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chesky_W\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Though high-power laser systems are more often associated with anti-drone technologies, Professor Li Xuelong and colleagues from NPU have devised a method that will do the opposite of downing the increasingly ubiquitous small aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The method would charge drones while their airborne, meaning they would never have to land. A team of researchers from the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in China has developed a method for using high-energy laser beams to keep drones airborne \u201cforever,\u201d according to a report from The South China Morning Post. Laser-powered drones could remain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155000","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}