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A Special Edition of Click on Drones

Click returns to the 91热爆 Radio Theatre for a discussion on the future of drones

Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, have been put to use by various military bodies around the world as silent harbingers of death and destruction. But they might also be put to use for good causes: deployed in rescue operations, for example, or accurately dropping seeds to aid reforestation.

Realistically, will they ever be used to deliver your mail? And can the danger from drones that fail and drop out of the sky ever be nullified?

Click assembles a panel of experts to discuss the future of drones. Joining Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson in the 91热爆 Radio Theatre will be Dr Mirko Kovac, Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London, Lauren Fletcher, CEO of BioCarbon Engineering, Mya Padget, a licensed commercial drone pilot, Liam Young, one of the key people behind the Barbican鈥檚 Drones Orchestra. Click also hears from Adrien Briod, Head of Technology at Flyability.

(Photo caption: A Novadem NX 110 drone flies during a presentation at a firefighter rescue centre in Les Pennes-Mirabeau, southern France 漏 Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images)

Producer: Colin Grant

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