Forget driverless cars. This New Hampshire company wants autonomous helicopters to spray crops and fight fires.
Briefly

"People would call us up and say, 'hey, I want to use this for crop dusting, can I?' We'd say, OK maybe, adding that they got enough calls to realize it was a huge untapped market."
"The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"Rotor has built two autonomous Sprayhawks and aims to have as many as 20 ready for market next year, focusing initially on agriculture sector uses for crop dusting."
Read at Boston.com
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