Hello, 2021. Are you gonna be like this all year?
The latest drone is a smellicopter. Really.
wired.com
IT’S A MOTH, it’s a plane, it’s … the Smellicopter, a little drone that senses odors with an onboard moth antenna. Seriously, that’s the scientists’ real name for their creation, a system that monitors the electrical signals sent from the antenna of an actual moth, allowing the drone to lock onto the source of a scent and navigate toward it. And, seriously, this has a long-term purpose: to one day get drones equipped with moth antennae to sniff out objects like bombs.