Andrew Wade

C2I 2020 Wildcard shortlist

In-Depth

The runners up in our Wildcard category incorporated a wide range of technologies and took on some of the world’s toughest environments. Andrew Wade reports.

Category: Wildcard

Winner: UK Volcanology Field Robotics Team

Partners: University of Bristol with University of Cambridge, University of Manchester and UCL

This multi-university collaboration has seen engineers and Earth scientists working side by side to develop and fly drones inside some of the world’s most active volcanoes. Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester and UCL came together in an effort to make volcanology safer while at the same time taking measurements that would simply not have been possible without the team’s innovations in UAV technology.

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According to the team, the collaboration has highlighted the great potential for engineers to work more closely with Earth scientists to study our planet in more detail than ever before. Future aspirations include the development of a highly capable, fully VTOL aircraft with additional onboard sensing, robust real-time re-routing and longer endurance.

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