23 August 2018
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Asia’s first fully solar-powered drone

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In April, a group of students from the Innovation & Design Programme (iDP) at NUS Engineering developed a quadcopter drone that is powered completely with solar energy, without the need for batteries or other energy storage. In test flights, the aircraft has flown to a height of ten metres and up to a duration of two minutes. This feat is a first in Asia.

Read more about their achievement here.

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