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On a frozen landscape in Svalbard, Norway, where the glaciers bleed into the Arctic Ocean, a small buzzing drone lifted into the air. Its mission was not surveillance, nor delivery. It was science.

Retail rivals Walmart and Amazon are turning to aerial drones to quickly and efficiently get online orders to customers. - © AFP/File Behrouz MEHRI Retail rivals ...

City, University of London’s Professor of Autonomous Systems and Machine Intelligence, Professor Nabil Aouf, is the lead academic on the SAPIENCE project, which is funded through the Science for Peace ...