Team:StanfordBrownSpelman/Human Practices
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Revision as of 20:49, 6 October 2014
Uses of UAVs & Orthogonal
Systems in Nature
Systems in Nature
Images ● EPA Partnership ● Our Approach ● Interviews ● References
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) (also known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Europe) have a long history of usage. According to DraganFly Innovations Inc., early UAVs took the form of balloons and they were primarily used for military purposes for monitoring and eliminating enemies in the battlefield. However, in the recent years, UAVs have been increasingly used by civilians to accomplish various scientific and humanitarian missions. Due to their promising ability to accomplish tasks that otherwise could have been tedious, unreachable or even dangerous to civilians, our team has considered the idea of improving the current models of UAVs in order to make them more biodegradable, modular and even cheaper and hence increase their accessibility and practicability to the scientific and civilian societies.
In the midst of our scientific design process and laboratory work that we have done, our team has taken into serious consideration the risks, ethics and stigma of using UAVs for civilian uses. Our aim in conducting this iGEM human practices project is to dive deep into the social economic impacts of using synthetic biology in general, and in addition to that, to consider how we can work around the stigma present in the society on the uses of UAVs. Part of this project was also to discuss the regulations and policies involved in the flying of civilian UAVs and assess the accessibility and practicability of the current civilian UAVs. In general, the main reason of doing this human practices project was to bring our laboratory work closer to humanity by assessing the impacts of our creation to the general society.
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Our Work with the EPA—
Synthetic Biology in the Air:Biological
UAVs and Environmental Safety Concerns
Synthetic Biology in the Air:Biological
UAVs and Environmental Safety Concerns