{"id":636,"date":"2018-08-23T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/idp\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=636"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:09:28","slug":"asias-first-fully-solar-powered-drone","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/edic\/news\/asias-first-fully-solar-powered-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s first fully solar-powered drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" class=\"wp-image-639 alignnone\" src=\" \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2018\/08\/quadcopter_1.jpg\" alt=\"Quadcopter 1\" \/><br \/>\nIn April, a group of students from the Innovation &amp; Design Programme (<em>i<\/em>DP) at NUS Engineering developed a quadcopter drone that is powered completely with solar energy, without the need for batteries or other energy storage. 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