AR Drone

Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business

Frank Tobe 10 Apr 2015

Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....

Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback

Mike Hamer 01 Jul 2013

This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS) Learn a...

A conversation with Henri Seydoux

Frank Tobe 03 May 2013

A growing business within Parrot S.A., (PARRO:EUROLIST B) is their AR.Drone line of products, parts and software. Their first quadcopter product was developed internally by (1) observing the $1 billio...

Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft

Guido de Croon 26 Mar 2013

Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...

Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Joystick control

Mike Hamer 04 Jan 2013

This is the second tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Talk about the ROS communication hierarchy Setup a joystick to work with ROS ...

Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started

Mike Hamer 10 Dec 2012

Updated December 17th. In this tutorial (#1) we will: Install ROS, the AR.Drone driver and AR.Drone keyboard controller Fly the AR.Drone using the provided keyboard controller...

Fly and film in HD

Frank Tobe 31 Oct 2012

... Parrot (PARRO on the Euronext Paris exchange), a French company famous for its audio and wireless devices for phones and cars, unveiled their first AR.Drone at CES in 2010 to huge crowds (I was th...

eBee first product from Parrot/senseFly investment

Frank Tobe 10 Oct 2012

In July, the Parrot Group partnered with senseFly, a Swiss start-up and spin-off from the Swiss EPFL, and invested $5.3 million to help senseFly grow. Their initial plan was to develop a hig...

Stephen Wolfram blog: Kids, arduinos and quadricopters

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Oct 2012

Presentation at Maker Faire by Christopher Wolfram shows off Mathematica with a potentiometer hooked up on the Arduino board and by flying a quadricopter drone in one line of code. See on blog.stephe...

Joggobot will keep you moving

John Payne 15 Jun 2012

http://youtu.be/4x4d8IX_0kI Researchers at the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have created a robot to support you while exercising. Joggobot is a modified version of th...

Is 2012 the year that robot applications take root?

Frank Tobe 02 Jan 2012

Tell us what apps you want. In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. Over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded between Chris...