Since last month’s launch of Minderoo’s XPrize Wildfire, a four-year global competition that will award $16 million in prize money to teams able to demonstrate fully autonomous capabilities to detect and extinguish wildfires, 68 teams have registered to compete from 14 countries, including three from Australia.
In the same period, Australia’s major science and research groups have publicly called for the government to back a “Grand Challenge” approach to …
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