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Flying Weather Robots Saturday, December 13, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Robots   
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At MIT, planning for bad weather involves far more than remembering an umbrella. Researchers in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics are trying to improve weather forecasting using robotic aircraft and advanced flight plans that consider millions of variables. "Weather affects huge sectors of our economy, such as agriculture and transportation," said Nicholas Roy, an assistant professor and one of the researchers who worked on the project. (source: web.mit.edu)
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