Tag: xPrize

Towards a new mission economy for Australia

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Since last month’s launch of Minderoo’s XPrize Wildfire, a four-year global competition that will award $16 million in prize money to teams able to demonstrate fully autonomous capabilities to...

What lies below? Drones will tell us, definitively 

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
While Australians were celebrating the arrival of 2021, off the coast of eastern Australia the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor was busy mapping the seabed with a drone for a hugely ambitious global project, Seabed 2030, to produce a definitive...