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The Monospinner: world’s mechanically simplest controllable flying machine
The Monospinner (Fig.1), developed at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich, is the mechanically simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence. It has only one moving part ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/2/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
From April 11 to 15, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons convened hundreds of delegates from member states and non-governmental or...
03 May 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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Evolutionary Approaches for Flying Robots, with Guido De Croon
Transcript below.In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Guido De Croon about Evolutionary Robotics and its use to design behaviors for flying robots....
01 May 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking?...
27 April 2016, by
Dirk Gorissen
Performing rescue missions with drone networks: Interview with Samira Hayat
Samira Hayat is following her calling: She has been a member of the Mobile Systems research team at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems since 2012. Before that, she studied in Trento. Ma...
13 April 2016, by
Christian Bettstetter
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/11/16
4/4/16 – 4/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Every few years, the Federal Aviation Administration has to be authorized so that it can receive funding and do its job. The U.S. Cong...
11 April 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/4/16
3/28/16 – 4/3/16
News
The U.S. military announced that it carried out a drone strike in Somalia targeting Hassan Ali Dhoore, a senior leader of al-Shabab’s intelligence and security division...
04 April 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drones to help farmers with weed control
by Fintan Burke
The last place you might expect to find drones and rovers is checking up on a corn field, but they could soon join tractors and ploughs on a farmer’s list of must-have agricultura...
01 April 2016, by
Horizon Magazine
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/28/16
3/21/16 – 3/27/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration released 582 new reports of incidents involving drones in the national airsp...
29 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/21/16
3/14/16 – 3/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our new report, “Analysis of U.S. Drone Exemptions 2014-2015,” we studied 2,700 FAA permits for non-recreational drone use to ...
22 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Report: Analysis of U.S. drone exemptions 2014-2015
The Centre for the Study of the Drone has released a new report on the state of the growing commercial drone industry....
16 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/14/16
3/7/16 – 3/13/16
News
A major U.S. airstrike in Somalia reportedly killed at least 150 al-Shabab fighters. The strike, which was carried out by manned and unmanned aircraft, targeted a compoun...
14 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 3/7/16
2/29/16 – 3/6/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Iran has one of the most extensive military drone programs in the world. We’ve uncovered new evidence that the program’s capabilit...
07 March 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
How can we use drones in the humanitarian and health sector?
Ever since I watched the exceptional 2013 TED talk by Raffaello D’Andrea on the athletic power of quadcopters I have been fascinated by the possibilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or, as t...
04 March 2016, by
Louis Potter
The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/29/16
Volvo’s Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling robot is controlled by a drone. (Image via the Verge)
2/22/16 – 2/28/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Three of the most techno...
29 February 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16
2/15/16 – 2/21/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In October, the White House announced that it will deploy a Predator drone unit to Cameroon. We have obtained the first photographic ...
22 February 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
22 February 2016, by
Robohub Editors
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/15/16
2/1/16 – 2/7/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Last week, the Pentagon released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017. The budget includes nearly $4 billion for drone-related proc...
15 February 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drones recognise and follow forest trails in search of lost people
A team of Swiss researchers have taught drones to recognise and follow forest trails. This research unlocks applications of drones for search and rescue in wilderness....
10 February 2016, by
NCCR Robotics
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/8/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Today, the Center for the Study of the Drone updated its database of companies and individuals that are allowed to fly drones commercially in U.S. airspace....
08 February 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/1/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Immediately following the detonation of Gilda at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946, a ghostly fleet of aircraft flew into the rising mushroom cloud. They looked ...
01 February 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/25/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Since 2009, the U.S. Air Force’s civilian auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol, has been operating a fleet of single-prop Cessnas equipped with the c...
25 January 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Into the heart of a glacier — with a drone
With their near-vertical walls and deep fractures, glacier crevasses are dangerously narrow ice caves that present a huge risk to search and rescue teams. In a partnership between Flyability (Winne...
20 January 2016, by
Adrien Briod and Hallie Siegel
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Our Media Portals page was created in January 2015 to serve as resources for individuals interested in studying drones. As the Bard spring academic semester...
11 January 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Intel acquires German drone startup Ascending Technologies
Intel Corp. has acquired German drone and autopilot developer Ascending Technologies. Ascending's LED light painting technology was used to fly and draw the Intel logo while the moves were shot wit...
06 January 2016, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
2015 was a busy year in the drone world. As we head into 2016, we looked back at the biggest news stories of the year. Here’s the 2015 Drone Year in Revie...
04 January 2016, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Register your drone. It’s the law.
The FAA has ruled that everyone who flies a drone must register. Since an estimated 700,000 drones are expected to be sold in the U.S. for the holiday gift-giving season, the registration process is s...
16 December 2015, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/14/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This week we published “Drone Sightings and Close Encounters: An Analysis,” which examines over 900 incidents involving drones and manned airc...
14 December 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
New comprehensive report on the risks drones pose to aircraft
With the holiday season approaching, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) estimates that up to one million new drones will be entering U.S. airspace, creating potentially dangerous situations for...
14 December 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/7/15
News
The Academy of Model Aeronautics and Best Buy are collaborating on a project to educate new drone users on how to fly. Best Buy will begin displaying in its stores educational materials that e...
07 December 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
