This summer, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, hosted the SAPIENCE Drone Competition, an international Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) event supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace and Security Programme. SAPIENCE stands for "Sense and Avoid - a cooPeratIvE droNe CompEtition," a project that highlights the use of cutting-edge autonomous drone and AI technologies to survey indoor and outdoor environments in disaster situations, minimizing the danger to humans and providing first responders with the most effective information when faced with dangerous environments.

The competition, the second of a three-part international series that kicked off last summer in London in 2024, took place on the Huntsv

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