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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/13/15
Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written numerous influential works on the internal dynami...
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
Philipp Oettershagen
09 Jul 2015
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Until the FAA implements comprehensive regulations for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft in US skies, the only companies legally permitted to fly dron...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/22/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In a recent report on China’s military capabilities, the Department of Defense told Congress that China will manufacture up to 42,000 military drones for ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/15/15
The Pentagon’s 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to domestic law enforcement, has resulted in the proliferation of unmanned ground vehicles in police departments across the cou...
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CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
Audrow Nash
12 Jun 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/8/15
The House and Senate have released proposed Pentagon budget bills that differ in drone spending from Obama’s proposed budget in several key points. We analyzed these differences to glean how they re...
‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm
Robin Ritz
04 Jun 2015
In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/1/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On May 20, the U.S. government released 103 documents seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. The documents, which have been translated ...
Transport Canada proposes amendments to sUAV regulations
Diana Marina Cooper
01 Jun 2015
On May 28th, Transport Canada released a Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) outlining proposed changes to the regulatory framework governing small UAVs. If adopted, the changes would take effect in 20...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/25/15
“Good Kill,” an IFC Films production, explores the use of drones by the U.S. military and issues related to remote participation in war. We sat down with actor Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Nicc...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/18/15
Earlier this month, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hosted its annual Unmanned Systems 2015 conference, the world’s largest drone trade show. But what is AUVSI, what exact...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/12/15
Last month, the U.S. Navy retired its two X-47B prototype unmanned combat drones. Known as Salty Dog 501 and Salty Dog 502, these remarkable aircraft are the most advanced and most autonomous drones e...
Competition heats up for consumer-friendly aerial photography drones
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
06 May 2015
Competition is fierce in the world of consumer drones these days, especially among companies marketing products than can produce pro quality video and photography without having to hire a drone ...
Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
Robohub Editors
05 May 2015
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/4/15
While the most widely recognized military drones are fixed-wing designs like the Predator and Reaper, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) systems are becoming more widely used. What, exactly, are the ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/27/15
Earlier this month, the United Nations held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical and legal implications of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The Meeting, which was attended by delegates...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/20/15
Last week, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical, legal, and humanitarian implications of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LA...
3D Robotics presents SOLO, their most consumer oriented drone yet
Ioannis K. Erripis
15 Apr 2015
Following a Kubrick's 2001 lookalike teaser video, 3D Robotics (3DR) presented their most ambitious product yet, ‘SOLO’ - an advanced quadcopter that above all focuses on ease of use and hassle-fr...
Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
Frank Tobe
13 Apr 2015
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/13/15
As the FAA grants more and more exemptions for the commercial use of drones, the immediate future of the domestic drone industry is beginning to take shape. We combed through the FAA’s drone exempti...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The National Air and Space Museum recently took possession of a rather special drone: the Center for the Study of the Drone’s very own Phantom I quadcopte...
As drone use flourishes, the FAA waivers, and Amazon is forced offshore
Frank Tobe
31 Mar 2015
Funding continues to flow to drone ventures worldwide even as news from the FAA suggests it will be many years before true autonomous flight will be allowed in the US. Meanwhile Amazon feels they mus...
Matternet launches drone delivery platform
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
31 Mar 2015
I often speak about deliverbots — the potential for ground-based delivery robots. There is also excitement about drone (UAV/quadcopter) based delivery. We’ve seen many proposed projects, including...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/30/15
Drone delivery, Senate hearing, law enforcement drones and many more stories. Read all the drone related news from last week on the Drone Center's Weekly roundup....
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
30 Mar 2015
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
Europe agrees on regulatory drone framework to move industry forward
Ben Fisher
28 Mar 2015
There is not a week that goes by where regulation isn't a hot topic when it comes to drones. But for any regulated industry where technology is advancing greater than new rules can be agreed upon, it...
3D Robotics launches app development kit ‘DroneKit’
Ben Fisher
26 Mar 2015
3D Robotics has unveiled DroneKit, an open-source development kit for app development. This is a clear invite for the wider development community to build upon 3DR's flight control software....
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
Ben Fisher
25 Mar 2015
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone offers a scathing critique of the use of military drones. But rather than approach the issue from a policy or s...
FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2015
Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
Does your drone have a ‘remote’? Canada’s definition of autonomous operations is a scene out of Chappie
Diana Marina Cooper
16 Mar 2015
Chappie, the new robo-film on the block, takes place in Johannesburg, where the police force is made up of robots. In one of the early scenes, the main characters, Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yolandi t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, senior U.S. government officials told the public that Saddam Hussein’s military was developing s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In late February, the Obama administration announced that it would ease long-standing restrictions on the sale of U.S. armed drones to foreign nations. The ...
Canada’s approach to risk management for nighttime drone flights
Diana Marina Cooper
03 Mar 2015
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) limits SUAS operations to daylight hours. The FAA concedes that the restriction on nighttime flights may neg...
