13-01-2017
The organization of the "The UAE Drone for Good Award" announced that the FCT NOVA team is one of the 10 finalists in the 2017 edition. This is a contest that awards high prizes, thus generating a large number of competitors. In 2016 there were more than 800 individual entries from 53 different countries, but mainly it counted with contributions from globally recognized companies and research groups (ETH Zürich, Nokia, Imperial College - Carnegie Mellon University, etc ...).
The 4Right2Life Drones project, based on a cooperative team of robots (ASV & aquatic drone), aims to offer a solution for the permanent monitoring of critical routes and early detection of refugee vessels with the main purpose of saving more human lives.
