{"id":10530,"date":"2025-10-15T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:50:38","slug":"japanese-farmers-send-out-automated-laser-drones-to-defend-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/15\/japanese-farmers-send-out-automated-laser-drones-to-defend-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-society\/japan-laser-drone-chickens\">Futurism<\/a> Chicken farming is a fowl business. To make it, you\u2019ll need extensive knowledge in animal husbandry, business finance, biosecurity, and mechanical repair. If one company in Japan has its way, that list could soon include \u201cdrone skills\u201d as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Japanese firm called NTT e-Drone Technology Company Ltd has developed a drone-laser system designed to scare wild birds and other unwanted visitors away from chicken coops, as reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/japanese-tech-giant-deploys-laser-drones-to-protect-chickens-drones-are-hoped-to-prevent-the-spread-of-avian-flu\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"tech blog\u00a0Tom\u2019s Hardware, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tech blog\u00a0<em>Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/em><\/a>. The quadcopter system sports a payload consisting of a laser-grid projector not unlike those chintzy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wpst.com\/laser-christmas-light-display\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Christmas light shows from 2019, opens in a new window\">Christmas light shows from 2019<\/a>. When deployed, the drone automatically navigates toward unwanted nuisance animals before blasting them with a dazzling array of red and green lasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A YouTube teaser reel shows the NTT drone gently shooing wild boar, stags, crows, pigeons, and waterfowl away from a desired area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u9ce5\u7363\u88ab\u5bb3\u3092\u30c9\u30ed\u30fc\u30f3\u3067\u89e3\u6c7a\uff01NTT\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u306e\u9ce5\u7363\u5bb3\u5bfe\u7b56\u30c9\u30ed\u30fc\u30f3\u300cBB102\u300d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/woVbbtzLPXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurism Chicken farming is a fowl business. To make it, you\u2019ll need extensive knowledge in animal husbandry, business finance, biosecurity, and mechanical repair. If one company in Japan has its way, that list could soon include \u201cdrone skills\u201d as well. A Japanese firm called NTT e-Drone Technology Company Ltd has developed a drone-laser system designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/japan-laser-drone-chickens.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10533,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}