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    While the cat’s away, the mice play: What the drone delivery biz is doing while FAA ruling is under appeal
    The Federal Aviation Administration’s rules on civilian use are currently on hold by a federal court, and in the interim, companies are scrambling to take advantage of using drones to deliver produc...
    13 June 2014, by

    BP gets first FAA approval to use commercial UAVs
        BP, the oil and energy company, received the first FAA early-use approval to fly Puma UAVs in and around Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. ...
    11 June 2014, by

    HorseFly unmanned aerial parcel delivery system uses truck as base
    Parcel delivery UAVs are a simple idea that requires a complex technology and great deal of vision. Matternet, Amazon.com and DHL (with their Paketkopter) are actively developing their drone delivery ...
    11 June 2014, by

    Aerial drone maps show Philippine typhoon devastation, aid in reconstruction
    A drone's eye view of the many coconut trees that were uprooted when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Photo Essay Six months ago, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippine’s South East coast....
    07 May 2014, by

    A drone’s eye view of the latest oil train explosion | Motherboard
    Drones used for journalism and disaster response have been hovering in a grey area, as the FAA argues that organized operations can't use them. The footage above helps emphasize the usefulness of dron...
    01 May 2014, by

    Commercial drone use legal in USA? Who’s willing to make bail?
    Or perhaps the better question is: who's willing to be the test case? A US federal court judge ruled against the FAA yesterday in their case against Raphael Pirker (the first and only person fine...
    07 March 2014, by



    Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
    UPDATE 04/03/2014: In this video update, we show that a quadrocopter can be safely piloted by hand after a motor fails, without the aid of a motion capture system. This follows our previous video, ...
    04 March 2014, by

    Why drones are the future of sports photography | The Atlantic
    They're already at the Olympics. Soon, they'll be at the football stadium.   Drones are being used to film ski and snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as you may have noti...
    18 February 2014, by

    Lockheed and AeroVironment to jointly develop UAS
    AeroVironment (of Raven, Puma and Wasp fame) has a high-altitude long-endurance UAV named Global Observer. It flies at 65,000’ for a week or more at a time, has up to a 600-mile diameter fo...
    16 February 2014, by

    Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award
    The Drone Social Innovation Award is a new initiative of the rapidly growing Drone User Group Network (DUGN). With over 3000 members across North America, Australia and Europe, DUGN is the largest com...
    11 February 2014, by

    A discussion on deploying drones for international development
    Last month, Deutsche Post DHL transported six kilograms of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn, across the Rhine River, to its headquarters. This wouldn't have made international news, except that DHL a...
    16 January 2014, by

    Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
    The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology. The DelFl...
    16 December 2013, by

    Amazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME
    Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general… Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com...
    02 December 2013, by

    Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future | 60 Minutes
    There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller, Amazon has reinvented itself time and again, changing the way the world shops, reads and computes. Amazon has 225 ...
    02 December 2013, by

    Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real? | Automaton
    Once you get past the wow factor [of Amazon's drone delivery announcement] and start thinking critically about what it would take to make something like this work in practice, it starts to look a lot...
    02 December 2013, by

    Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning
    Quadrocopters assembling tensile structures in the ETH Flying Machine Arena. Photo credit: Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH...
    18 November 2013, by

    VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN
    Professor Raffaello d'Andrea has created a series of complex algorithms allowing airborne robots to perform acrobatics.   Watch the video on CNN...
    12 November 2013, by

    DARC talks about the elephants in the room – freight planes and fighters
    It was fitting that Missy Cummings had the last word at the DARC drones and aerial robotics conference in NY. As an ex-TopGun navy pilot who saw drones taking over her job, she was the one to talk abo...
    23 October 2013, by

    Videos of presentations at Ryerson University symposium on UAVs
    On June 30th of this year, Ryerson University in Toronto held an event titled UAVs: Pros vs Cons Symposium. Some of the presentations have since been incorporated into a YouTube playlist by Nikola Dan...
    11 August 2013, by

    Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer

    Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
    09 August 2013, by

    Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US
    Insitu's Scan Eagle x200. Two small drones, Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA, have become the first federally certified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for civilian use in the US. O...
    27 July 2013, by

    Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller

    Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
    03 May 2013, by

    Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
    Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
    21 February 2013, by

    Quadrocopter Drones from China
    The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world´s first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera  Technology Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R/C model t...
    22 January 2013, by

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