New high tech Australian Zoo to use drones, robots, and augmented reality
Lions and tigers and… drones? Oh, my!
The impending western Sydney Zoo plans to use drones, robots, augmented reality, and whatever innovative technology that an upcoming hackathon at Western Sydney University will dream up. The hackathon is expected to attract more than academics and scientists, but also start-ups, business and industry professionals, and engineers. The partnership between the new zoo and the university could disrupt any current norm of what a zoo experience entails.
So what will the entire visitor experience be like? Professor Scott Holmes, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President at WSU, is focused on creating a completely unique and transformative visitor experience unavailable anywhere else in the world.
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