[acadien]

The article said nothing about selective dispersal. For all we know these drones are just fancy crop dusters.

[ijpoijpoihpiuoh]

From what I can read of the press release, they are claiming a reduction of 30% in the amount of pesticide used. So, a significant incremental improvement, but certainly not something truly smart like using a camera to identify individual pests and targeting those pests with directed blasts of insecticide. Still a few years from that version of this tech.