Glimpse of the Future

The ‘Smellicopter’ Drone Uses Actual Moth Antenna to Sniff Out Smells

The drone could be used in dangerous places where people can’t go

To make the Smellicopter, researchers added a moth antenna — the brown arc being attached here — to an open-source hand-held commercially available quadcopter. Photo: Mark Stone/University of Washington

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