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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/30/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This fall season has been a busy one for the drone industry, and, for some a very lucrative one. The past few months have seen a spike in the sale of milita...
30 November 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations
After the Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of their objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration, they undertook to develop and recommend a re...
24 November 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video
Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...
20 November 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
By now, we are well-acquainted with drones that fly, crawl, and sail, but what about drones that plumb the depths of the ocean, scouring the seas ...
16 November 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We have updated our database of companies currently operating drones within the U.S. In this latest update, we discuss a growing trend in companies that...
09 November 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Lisa Ellman knows a thing or two about the challenges of regulating domestic drones use. During a three-year stint at the White House, she served as a princ...
02 November 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/26/15
A Message from the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Center for the Study of the Drone was founded in 2012 to create original, inquiry-driven content and resources that help the public and poli...
26 October 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/19/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
While drones and targeted killing have received almost no attention so far in the presidential elections, it is an issue in which the next commander-in-chie...
19 October 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The MQ-9 Reaper is perhaps the most famous military drone in history. While many will immediately recognize its distinctive shape, few outside the Pentagon ...
14 October 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/5/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned aircraft have already revolutionized war and commerce, but now a new breed of ultra-high-altitude aircraft capable of remaining airborne for extens...
05 October 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo
The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....
23 September 2015, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/21/15
Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a drone bill that, if enacted, would have placed greater restrictions on drone use than any other piece of state legislation. The story of S....
21 September 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
1,407 FAA exemptions for UAS
In May 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began accepting petitions for exemptions to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) commercially in civilian airspace. As of 1 September 2015,...
21 September 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...
18 September 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/14/15
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We have continued our analysis of hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration’s reports of near misses involving drones and manned aircraft. Among other things, we discovered that inciden...
14 September 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones
The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...
10 September 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/7/15
From comedy to car commercials, drones have provoked a frenzy of popular media portrayals that are equal parts funny, hyperbolic, and disturbing. We take a closer look at these representations in orde...
07 September 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...
04 September 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Price wars: Counting the cost of drones, planes and satellites
One of the main advantages of drone-based imaging touted by both manufacturers and service providers is its low cost compared to competing technologies like airplanes and satellites. But a simple Inte...
03 September 2015, by
Edd Gent
California drone bill misses the mark
Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...
01 September 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/31/15
The U.S. National Guard operates a substantial—and strategically critical—fleet of Predator and Reaper drones in America’s wars. Now, the service is taking steps to bring those drones home for u...
31 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/24/15
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600 incidents in which drones interfered with the national airspace and, in some cases, came close to colliding with manned a...
24 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
19 August 2015, by
Fotokite
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/17/15
Like many other regions of the world, Southeast Asia has been experiencing something of a drone boom. Hobbyists and professionals are becoming airborne in increasingly large numbers, militaries are vy...
17 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/10/15
Even though it is less than a year old, the regulated domestic commercial drone industry has already spread across the entire United States. We have created a series of maps in order to better underst...
10 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/3/15
While drones have received the lion’s share of attention from among US tools in the War on Terror, Special Operations Forces are growing in reach and importance. We explore how Special Ops and dro...
03 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Is all the hype about drone commercialization clouding our judgement?
The hype around the consumer drone industry is so thick that it clouds our judgement. It is as if our biggest boosters have forgotten what our technology stack really does, what it doesn’t do, and ...
28 July 2015, by
Robert Morris
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
When we say drone, we ofter think of the flying platform. But that's just half the story. Drones are amazing flying tools because of their ability to position sensing payloads in the sky. Most operato...
21 July 2015, by
Ben Fisher
