Awarded 22 May 2023
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water awarded a contract to [OVS] Empa, Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics for a drone-based deployment system designed to sample large whales.
This contract supports innovative wildlife research using robotics, reflecting a trend toward non-invasive sampling methods in environmental monitoring.
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