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This week: Superfast, super furious at Dubai's world drone pre-.

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Hydrogen keeping them up, and Eagles taking them down. -- world drone of

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prix. Drones, drones, drones, a thing of

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constant fascination and innovation. So much so, that last year, the

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government of the United Arab Emirates held a contest called

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jointly good with a massive $1 million prize up for grabs -- drones

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for good. Teams run the world were invited to compete to demonstrate

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how their unmanned aerial vehicles could improve people's lives. We saw

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everything from frog dissipation to window cleaning. -- fog. Not content

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with feisty's event, to buy is aiming to once again be the centre

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of drone innovation. We have been back to the UAE to meet the pilots

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said to turn drone racing professional and establish

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themselves as world champions. Pilots, starch or rotors. 32 of the

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best drone pilots from across the globe have gathered here in Dubai

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for the very first World Drone Prix. At stake, a huge prize pot of $1

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million. With the first prize a $250,000 for the fastest team. For

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pilots will fly at the same time, and it will be a knockout type of

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tournament style. They will be racing custom quad copters around

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this specially constructed circuit. The pallets must complete 12 laps of

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the track, nicking at least one pitstop per race to swap batteries

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-- making. We are in the crew area, backstage if you like, at the World

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Drone Prix. We will meet some of the teams. This is the Dutch team. Hi,

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guys. Last year we were just flying in a field and now we are here with

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the 20 32 in the world. The competition has come in to help

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these guys set up their rig. This is a drone racing team at work,

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relaxing just before the races. Is this the pit crew technician doing

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all of the hardware? Soldering, rewiring things. Those soldering

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irons will be kept busy because the drones themselves are fitted with a

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host of electronics including GPS tracking and forward facing cameras.

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This is where the pilots sit. They will be wearing first person view

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goggles showing them exactly what the drone itself can see. The palate

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is assisted by a navigator, who tell them about anything on the track the

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pilot will not be able to see. -- pilot. This is the team manager. I'm

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on the team doing a very important thing. You plug it in and replace

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the battery, and put it back in. If I screw up with this simple task,

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this is the only job you have, you out of the race, disqualified. The

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drones will be racing along the circuit. It is the first of its kind

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constructed anywhere in the world. It is almost 600 metres long, it has

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the capability to change shape. Some of the track's spines can

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mechanically move. They won't do that you're in racing as that would

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make a difficult track most impossible to complete. -- during

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racing. You have advised the guys on what the track should be like, the

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circuit itself. What sort of things did you tell them would be a good

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idea to introduce to the track was like in the previous races we have

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done, we have only done to the tracks. Now we wanted to introduce

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elevation, jetted off the ground so it truly be an aerial sport. That

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tower over there, they will have to go up and over, and it becomes more

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like a rollercoaster. The lights on the drones make it much easier to

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follow. The whole thing reminds me of the Tron movies Elizabeth. Before

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the pilots are let loose, they have to compete in two days of qualifying

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heats taking place indoors. -- Tron movies a little bit. One little

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thing goes wrong, and incident, you are out. Success in those heats,

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they graduate to the big show, the outdoor circuit, where their

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practice results dictate their starting position. What you think is

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showing through? I think it is the young kids. With car racing there is

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a barrier to racing in terms of age, but that doesn't really exist

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with this kind of racing? You can be ten or seven years old as long as

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you have the skills and the control. You can also be in a

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wheelchair and still compete. It doesn't matter. Qualifying is over

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and the British favourite sales through. He is joined by the team to

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watch out for, the Dutch, as well as the cool as ice Russians -- sales

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through. As fast as these things are, keeping

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them up in the air for any length of time is a problem. Pilots can get

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through 40 batteries in a day. You generally only get 15 or 20 minutes

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life out of each one. But a UK company is now working on a way of

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increasing flight time from minutes to hours, and we have had an

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exclusive look at the first fleet. I have been flying drones for a few

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years now on ago Matt, and even managed to crash one. Behind the

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scenes, we are always aware of how little time we have to get the

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perfect shot before we run out of batteries -- years now on

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programmer. Now they could be a solution to increase my time.

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Intelligent energy in Loughborough have been experimenting with

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hydrogen fuel technology. We have been giving exclusive access to

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their flight tests. This is the first time we have been flying them

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with a hydrogen fuel cell. It is a joint they have modified. The fuel

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cell and fuel weighs about 1.6 g. It can flight for up to two hours on

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one fuel cell, about six times longer than the average with a

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normal battery. Refuelling with compressed hydrogen is faster too,

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taking just a few minutes, compared with three charging a battery.

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Intelligent energy have been testing hydrogen fuel cell technology here

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since 2001, but are focused on drone flights for the last 18 months. Tell

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us how this works. This is the fuel tank. This is where the hydrogen is.

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These two on top at the fuel cells, and we have a fan that takes a small

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amount of heat, but also holds the airflow. You combine hydrogen with

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oxygen from the air blowing through this fence, and it produces

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electricity. While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the

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universe, on Earth, it is mostly used in heavy industry, which is

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where this company sees the drones being most useful. Straightaway in

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the industrial industry, we're looking at agriculture, well and

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gas, mapping forestry, and any other industry that needs drones for

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inspection or otherwise -- wheel and gas. We will get into the consumer

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space, but initially our target market is the commercial market. It

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reduces costs considerably. The company expects to have the fuel

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cells ready for commercial use in the next year but will have to wait

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longer for a consumer version. It was bad news this week for the UK

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gaming industry as Sony announced the closure of Revolution studio is.

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It was perhaps best known for its work on the PlayStation title drive

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club. It was also the week that Apple and the FBI was supposed to

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meet in court for a hearing over the battle to unlock the phone of San

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Bernardino gunmen. However the case took an unexpected turn when the FBI

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announced it may have found a way to unlock the phone without the help of

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Apple. It was not all legal battles for the tech giant, as they launched

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a new phone, iPad and a series of watch straps. But the most

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interesting thing about their press conference was a recycling robot

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named Liam. There was also the week that Twitter turned ten, John

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Hopkins showed off a drone they can live underwater for months, and an

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artificially intelligent dear wondering around the world of grand

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theft auto became an art installation, and then an Internet

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sensation. But perhaps the most intriguing bit of tech this week

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came from Stanford University, where the team have built software that

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allows you to create real-time facial re-enactments, meaning you

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can effectively map your worlds and expressions on to somebody else's

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face. Getting them to say anything you want. -- your words.

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Today, I've gone back to school. I'm learning to programme the new chip

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on the block. The data is going from the computer into the Microbit. This

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week, the BBC has finally unleashed the Microbit. Announced last July,

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the tiny programmable computer is being given free to a million

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schoolkids in the UK in the hope it will inspire a new generation of

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programmers. As wild as your imagination. In just a few minutes,

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it is possible to learn to create short programmes that anything into

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a name badge, Robo racer, or a spacecraft! We're learning how to

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turn the Microbit into a dice so when you shake it you get a random

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number between one and six. Problem is, it is currently giving a number

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between zero and six. But everyone is trying to solve that problem. Get

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rid of that pesky zero. Type dice in there. The Microbit is not a fully

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fledged computer, like a raspberry pipe. It is more like an

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introduction to the idea of programming, a much more simple

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affair -- pi. It has a Bluetooth connection and electronic connectors

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that Atlantic control other devices. But even if it is not directly

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competing with other budget computers, the Microbit has arrived

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later than promised, which may make it difficult to incorporate into

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lesson plans for the remainder of the school year. It is using

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everything I've learnt at school except it is opening me to more

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opportunities such as allowing me to use LED on the Microbit. Because it

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is small, you can take it anywhere with you as well. Excellent. Thank

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you for coming. Did you enjoy it? Yes! Well done, everyone. Toby does

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prove as inspirational as the BBC Micro, and a whole microcomputer

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revolution of the 1980s. That is why I got into this in the first place

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-- let's hope it does. With reports of near misses with

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aircraft, invasions of privacy and security breaches, drones aren't

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always welcome flyers. This month alone, they have been two incidents

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at major airports, one in one in LA. To avoid any danger to these, the

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authorities need to find safe ways of bringing the drones out of the

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sky. Short of shooting them down, where they could fall

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unpredictably, innovative ideas are needed, and we start with this one.

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Nature's low-tech solution that the Netherlands police force invited me

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to see in action. Before seen that with my own eyes I

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was concerned that the eagle was going to be delicate for the drone,

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but actually it really took control of that thing. The eagle has learnt

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to pick up the drone and, much like it would with any prey, bring it

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down to the ground. And the company behind this project say it shouldn't

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harm the eagles. While these birds aren't going to become a fast

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response solution to any situation, the idea is that they will be

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trained and based around high risk areas like airports or big events.

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This man on a mission to bring down the unwonted drones has plenty of

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other ideas as well. The company has come up with deposit billet --

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possibility to block the signal that controls the drawing and another

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company has come up with the idea to block or disturb the GPS code of the

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drone that flies. And that's a concept that one firm in Ohio have

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been focusing on. The drone defender uses radio frequency disruption,

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which, if it works, should provide a portable long-range solution to

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guide the drone out of the sky. But it is not that simple. Although 50

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have been sold in the US, laws against interfering with radio

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frequency mean that they can only be used by federal authorities. The

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Netherlands' police force have also been looking at a device called the

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Drone Catcher. Another drone which uses its on-board camera to help it

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trigger a tiny net to safely parachuted its target down to the

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ground. After an incident in Tokyo last year where a drone carrying

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radioactive material was flown on to the Prime Minister by the roof, the

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police have taken action. A drone squad will be on call to use a

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rescue drone and net to set up to prevent such incidents. And, back in

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the UK, this, the shoulder mounted skywalk, has been developed. It is a

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launcher which fires a programmable cell containing a net and

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parachute. Using lasers and gyroscopes to track the drone it

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then predicts the flight path to deploy the net at the right time.

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So, whether these solutions take off or not, the problem doesn't seem to

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be going away. Bullseye! That was Lara. With me is Jonathan Nicholson

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from the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK. Hi. Surely it can't be that

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safe to fire a net at a drone and bring it down? Can it? There are a

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number of solutions you could use to make short drones are used safely in

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the UK. That could be one of them, it needs a lot of research to figure

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out what we can or can't use. What if there's somebody underneath the

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drone when it's coming down? Less safe than it up their. One thing we

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look at is geo- fencing. Aircraft or drone reaches a certain point in the

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sky where it shouldn't be, the drone stops. Another technical solution

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you could have is a way of tracking drones in real time, so you are

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aware of where they are, you could potentially track them back to it

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user and certainly that could be an alerting system for if a drone was

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coming to close to an airport or a piece of airspace they aren't

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allowed into. Explain at the moment what happens if a drone is spotted

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near an airport. We've seen airports actually shut, as in close their

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operation centre, if they think there are drones around. In other

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cases the pilot could report the drones to air traffic control and

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they could alert police. It sounds like a bit of a fax to track down

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this drone pilots, contact authorities and by the time the

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drone has disappeared. -- faff. The police have a lot of things at their

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disposal. There are always police patrolling the airfield and there

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are helicopters in the UK that can be sent to look at issues. So it

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could be a quick reaction and certainly we don't want drone users

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to think that they can get away with using them illegally, got they

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can't. People have been prosecuted and ultimately, if they are caught

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using them close to an airfield and within a mile to a -- an airport,

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you could be imprisoned. Thanks. Back to Dubai where things are

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hotting up in the question of victory at the World Drone Prix.

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Sundown. The World Drone Prix semifinals are about to begin.

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Last-minute tweaks have been made and fighting talk rings out across

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the circuit. Speed is my game, so I think we will do pretty well. We've

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got it covered. I didn't come here for second. We've got this! Pilots,

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navigators and pit crews take their positions. This is it. Is going

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down. The World Drone Prix kicks off in earnest. And bear off! -- they're

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off. Time for me to get in on the action

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as well. When I pop these goggles I will see what the pilots can see now

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as they race in the finals of the World Drone Prix. Pop the goggles on

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and I get a pilot's I zoom off the track. This is standard definition,

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not HD. In HD there would be too much latency and the pilots have to

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see exactly what's happening at the moment it is happening. We've just

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had a crash! That is what they call game over.

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Not just the pastime of amateur hobbyists, it's a serious game with

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a serious amount of dedication and preparation. Everything from the

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materials, the processes used and is considered. The technology in the

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drones is actually very leading edge. The materials they use for

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example are the best magnets money can buy. You just pump throttle and

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the thing goes from zero to 100 kilometres per hour in about one

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second. Each motor is controlled by a small microprocessor, which is an

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art form in itself come to get that algorithm right. For the customising

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the drones allows them to pull some serious moves. We put it like this,

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it stays like this. You can reverse, do everything you want. Flips,

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flight, almost you don't have limits. And in this tournament there

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are a lot more serious rules. You need to get air gates. Normally you

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fly to and you get a penalty but now if you don't get through the air

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gates you will be disqualified. If you hit somebody you are

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disqualified. Very tough. Traditionally, the close-knit

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community sport. We find things like this, the Thompson family, from

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Australia. They are made up of a grandfather, dad and son. I am Sam,

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this is my son and my father. I bent this prop, which made the whole

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thing shake like crazy. That's fine. This is way better than I was

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expecting and it has been really long and draining and to be honest

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I'm quite glad it is over for us. While it has certainly been

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physically demanding, it's also been surprisingly very emotional. The co-

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organiser says the rapid rise of the sport has been overwhelming. About

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two years ago when we started the World Drone Prix we were dreaming

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our wildest dreams. You imagine this track. The first time my friend was

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flying and gave me the goggles I cried. This is it. The final. The

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tension in the air is palpable. Confidence has diminished. Game

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faces are on. Time for maximum focus. How do you feel going into

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this race? Absolutely terrified. Pressure? It is fine. And bear off!

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-- they're off! Come on! I was watching him and the

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video was perfectly clean. When you lose you will blame something other

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than yourself. Well, there's a lot on the line, that's for sure. So,

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the final race has been run but there is a little bit of confusion

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as to who has actually won. Ladies and gentlemen, the track race award

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is going to... Tornado, from the UK! And it is a sweet victory for this

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15-year-old British pilots, as he scoops the whopping $250,000 first

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prize which he will share with the rest of his team. How does it feel

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to be the winner? Amazing and I couldn't have done it without my

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team, who are amazing. The dream come true! So honoured!

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And during the World Drone Prix and other first was announced in Dubai,

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the world federation of future sports, which aims to take

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sportsmanship to a new digital level. Robot Wars, driverless car

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races and ping-pong bot battles are amongst the contest areas

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considered. It seems this World Drone Prix is just the beginning of

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many sci-fi sports destined for desert you all is. Anyway, that is

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all we've got time for. -- desert duals. Follow us on Twitter

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throughout the week. Thanks for watching and see you soon.

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