{"id":78383,"date":"2018-05-06T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/an-engineer-modded-a-drone-to-rescue-this-puppy"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:08:27","slug":"an-engineer-modded-a-drone-to-rescue-this-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/an-engineer-modded-a-drone-to-rescue-this-puppy","title":{"rendered":"An engineer modded a drone to rescue this puppy"},"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\/ot2Ohy88dEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is so cute!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In today\u2019s adorable-and-I\u2019m-not-crying-you\u2019re-crying news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/offbeat\/lucknow-man-uses-drone-to-rescue-puppy-trapped-in-filthy-drain-watch-video-1846644\"><em>NDTL<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>reports that an engineer in New Delhi named Milind Raj saved a puppy using a drone he equipped with a giant claw.<\/p>\n<p>Raj was out for a morning walk in New Delhi when he heard whimpering and traced the sound to a puppy that had become stuck in a boggy drain between two roads. Raj said the condition of the puppy was \u201cmiserable\u201d and tells <em>The Verge<\/em> that local residents had heard the animal crying for two days. Others hadn\u2019t stepped up to the task of trying to rescue the pup because \u201cthe drain was so filthy,\u201d says Raj. \u201cIt was not possible for a human to rescue the puppy without endangering their own life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raj decided to take up the task himself, and immediately set to work constructing a drone capable of rescuing the pup. Even though Raj has an extensive history in both AI and robotics, he said building the right tools was a challenging exercise. Within a few hours, he had strapped a robotic arm with a claw of sorts to a six-rotor drone, both custom-made in his lab, located in the city of Lucknow. While he had built the drone itself two years ago, the arm he equipped it with was something he specifically created for this rescue, installing sensors to track heartbeat and breathing patterns to keep tabs on the wellness of the puppy. \u201cThe AI helped me monitor the animal\u2019s heart rate,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the grip was too tight, the pup would suffocate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/5\/17316928\/engineer-drone-puppy-rescue\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/5\/5\/17316928\/engineer-drone-puppy-rescue<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so cute! In today\u2019s adorable-and-I\u2019m-not-crying-you\u2019re-crying news, NDTL reports that an engineer in New Delhi named Milind Raj saved a puppy using a drone he equipped with a giant claw. Raj was out for a morning walk in New Delhi when he heard whimpering and traced the sound to a puppy that had become [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78383","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78508,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78383\/revisions\/78508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}