Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-05-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/nature14542PMID 26017445
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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