{"id":23706,"date":"2026-06-27T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/australian-rescue-team-uses-ai-powered-drone-to-find-lost-hikers-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:37:49","slug":"australian-rescue-team-uses-ai-powered-drone-to-find-lost-hikers-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/australian-rescue-team-uses-ai-powered-drone-to-find-lost-hikers-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian rescue team uses AI-powered drone to find lost hikers \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, on Tuesday, and were found about half a kilometre off the track. It was the first time the FRNSW drone\u2019s AI detection system had been used to rescue missing people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jun\/27\/ai-drone-rescue-kosciuszko-national-park-hikers-fire-rescue-nsw\">Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/video\/2026\/jun\/27\/australian-rescue-team-uses-ai-powered-drone-to-find-lost-hikers-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3752ed6a45e2ccc0b4c976fef12974cb7e048003\/455_0_2104_1684\/master\/2104.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21eaa9b4a57f59e55a3940291956516d\" title=\"Australian rescue team uses AI-powered drone to find lost hikers \u2013 video\" \/>Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, on Tuesday, and were found about half a kilometre off the track. It was the first time the FRNSW drone\u2019s AI detection system had been used to rescue missing people<br \/>\nHikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone<br \/>\nContinue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men in their 20s were found within five hours thanks to an artificial intelligence-powered drone, which used thermal imaging to locate them. Two hikers veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park, New South Wales, on Tuesday, and were found about half a kilometre off the track. It was the first time the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/australian-rescue-team-uses-ai-powered-drone-to-find-lost-hikers-video\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian rescue team uses AI-powered drone to find lost hikers \u2013 video<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}