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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/17/17
April 10, 2017 – April 16, 2017
News
A drone strike in the Sinai reportedly killed one person. According to al-Jazeera, the strike targeted a house in Rafah, a town that borders the Gaza Stri...
17 April 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/10/17
April 3, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Public Safety Drones
Police and first responder drones were once a sci-fi fantasy; now they are a reality, appearing with increasing frequency in cities and towns ...
10 April 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
DroneClash: Delft University of Technology organising first anti-drone race
To incorporate drones in our lives in a good and safe way, we need anti-drone instruments. On 4 December the TU Delft Micro Air Vehicle Lab (MAVLab) will host the first ever anti-drone competition: D...
29 March 2017, by
RoboValley
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/27/17
March 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed Qari Yasin, an al-Qaeda leader who was responsible for a 2008 attack on a hotel in Islamabad. The strike took pla...
27 March 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/20/17
March 13, 2017 – March 19, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We spoke to Rolling Stone about the implications of recent advances in swarming drone technology for the future of warf...
20 March 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/13/17
March 6, 2017 – March 12, 2017
News
Germany reportedly intends to acquire the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton high-altitude surveillance drone, according to a story in Sueddeutsche Zeitung. In 2...
14 March 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
09 March 2017, by
SPH Engineering
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/27/17
February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Dronescapes is a collection of vibrant, mystical paintings of drones by Australian artist Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fo...
27 February 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Insect-inspired mechanical resilience for multicopters
Over recent years the explosion in popularity of drones, both professionally and for amateur use, has inspired researchers to consider how to make flying robots as safe and robust as possible. Previou...
27 February 2017, by
NCCR Robotics
Drones for good 2.0: How WeRobotics is redefining the use of unmanned systems in developing countries
Robotics undoubtedly has the potential to improve lives in the developing world. However, with limited budgets and expertise on the ground, putting this technology in place is no small task. Step forw...
22 February 2017, by
Waypoint
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/20/17
February 13, 2017 – February 19, 2017
News
Telecommunications firm Verizon has acquired Skyward, a drone operations management company. Skyward develops software for drone operators to manage ...
20 February 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Cargo drones deliver in the Amazon rainforest
The Amazon is home to thousands of local indigenous communities spread across very remote areas. As a result, these sparsely populated communities rarely have reliable access to essential medicines an...
16 February 2017, by
Patrick Meier
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/13/17
February 6, 2017 – February 12, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Loitering munitions are a proliferating class of drones that double as precision attack weapons. These systems, wh...
14 February 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The art of drone flight: Creating drone costumes
Drone costume designer Léa Pereyre showcases several of her imaginative designs and describes her experience with dreaming up new concepts for this emerging art form.
Check out more designs on the...
07 February 2017, by
Léa Pereyre
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/6/17
January 30, 2017 – February 5, 2017
News
Israel has reportedly eased export restrictions on military drones in order to boost the competitiveness of Israeli companies. According to an unnamed...
07 February 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/30/17
January 23, 2017 – January 29, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A growing number of countries around the world are developing or acquiring unmanned aircraft systems. Today, the Ce...
31 January 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Flying cars are coming, what will they mean?
Earlier I posted my gallery of CES gadgets and included a photo of the eHang 184 from China, a “personal drone” able, in theory, to carry a person up to 100kg.
Whether the eHang is real or not...
27 January 2017, by
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/23/17
January 16, 2017 – January 22, 2017
News
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Yemen killed at least three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. According to local officials, both strike...
23 January 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/16/17
January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017
News
Popular French hobby drone maker Parrot laid off 290 out of 840 workers after posting growing losses in recent months. Parrot lost $27.8 million in the ...
16 January 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Parrot struggling, Lily fails and Google closes Titan Project as drone industry disunites
Toy and entertainment drones, camera drones for professional and business use, moon-shot drones and military drones are all becoming more and more distinct as much of the drone industry gets commodit...
13 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
09 January 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/02/17
December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017
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Year in Review
2016 was many things to many p...
02 January 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/19/16
December 12, 2016 – December 18, 2016
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19 December 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
A drone that flies (almost) like a bird
Bioinspired robots that take their designs from biology has been a big research area in recent years, but a team from NCCR Robotics, Floreano Lab have just gone one step further and designed a feat...
16 December 2016, by
NCCR Robotics
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/12/16
December 5, 2016 – December 11, 2016
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In a few weeks, we will send out our 200th Weekly Roundup. We greatly appreciate you as a subscriber and welcome yo...
12 December 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/5/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
06 December 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Design, simulate and build a custom drone
This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want?
A new system fro...
05 December 2016, by
CSAIL MIT
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/28/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
28 November 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Emerging patchwork of regulation of UAS operations near critical infrastructure
Over the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in state regulation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). A recent report published by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) titled “...
22 November 2016, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/21/16
November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our ongoing effort to track drone deployments globally, we have made two new previously unreported discoveries...
22 November 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
