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Move Over, Tractor—the Farmer Wants a Crop-Spraying Drone

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They designed a spray system and made some software tweaks, and by 2018 the company began offering crop-spraying services, Erickson says. The company expanded its business to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, starting with just a pair of drones but eventually operating three spraying teams of four drones each.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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His research interests included the design and fabrication of neuromorphic devices and circuits, flash memories, and silicon quantum devices. Five years after graduating in 1952, he joined utility company Hydro-Québec in Montreal as a systems design engineer. He volunteered on projects in Guatemala and Honduras.