Tornyol drone uses sonar to hunt and destroy mosquitoes
The deadliest animal to have ever roamed the earth is not the great white shark, or snakes, or even rats that caused three great plagues in history, decimating the human population at the time. It’s the tiny 5-mm (0.2-inch) Anopheles mosquito, which has accounted for billions of deaths in history. One company is taking the battle against these deadly insects directly to the skies with tiny air-to-air killer drones.
Y-Combinator-backed French startup Tornyol is proposing a 40-gram autonomous drone as a solution to the mosquito problem. The drone monitors its surroundings for insects, continuously patrolling a defined area and returning to charge when necessary. Once it detects a target in the air, it launches towards it and “neutralizes” it mid-air – simply by chopping it up with its propellers.
According to statistics by the World Health Organization, mosquitoes kill 700,000 to 1 million people every year, mostly by spreading malaria...
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