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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...
23 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
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...
17 March 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Does your drone have a ‘remote’? Canada’s definition of autonomous operations is a scene out of Chappie
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...
16 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
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...
16 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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 ...
09 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Canada’s approach to risk management for nighttime drone flights
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...
03 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As a Department of Homeland Security shutdown started to look increasingly likely, we wondered what that would mean for the Customs and Border Protection’...
02 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
How Canada handles beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) proposes to restrict operations that are completed beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS). However, the FAA has...
02 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The FAA’s proposed drones rules are only a draft of the final regulations. The FAA still has questions about how to best integrate commercial drones into ...
23 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/16/15
The Federal Aviation Administration has released its proposed rules for the domestic, non-recreational use of drones weighing less than 55 lbs. USA President Obama issued a memorandum that outlines ne...
16 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community
3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...
11 February 2015, by
Ben Fisher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
President Obama’s budget for 2016 includes, among other things, the Pentagon’s spending plans for the year. These include significant investments in dro...
09 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Flyability wins UAE Drones For Good Award
“Flyability SA is proud to announce that it has won the UAE Drones for Good Award, an international competition with a $1M prize money to reward uses of drones which have a positive impact on humani...
09 February 2015, by
John Payne
Liability concerns for drone co’s imposing technical measures to enforce no fly zones
Shortly after a Phantom crash-landed on the grounds of the White House, its maker, DJI, announced that it would release a mandatory firmware update that would restrict flights within 15.5 miles of dow...
03 February 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This week, we introduced the Portals, comprehensive collections of the best multimedia resources on a variety of issues on drones. Portals are now available...
02 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
‘Quadcopter’ crashes onto White House grounds, poses security threat
The White House was put on high alert today as a drone was flown at low altitude onto the south-east side of the complex. A secret service spokesperson said "An investigation is under way to determine...
26 January 2015, by
Ben Fisher
Government employee flies small drone over White House Fence | NY Times
The small drone that crashed into a tree on the South Lawn of the White House early Monday morning was operated by a government employee who has told the Secret Service that he did not mean to fly it ...
26 January 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/26/15
The Drone Center is pleased to mark the 100th edition of our Weekly Roundup of drone news, commentary and analysis, art, and technology. We sent out the first Roundup almost two years ago to a group ...
26 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drone crash at White House comes as FAA develops rules | USA Today
The crash of a quad-copter drone on White House grounds early Monday comes as the Federal Aviation Administration is developing long-awaited rules for commercial unmanned aircraft.
Congress ordered...
26 January 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Drone that crashed at White House was a quadrocopter | TIME
A drone that crashed on the White House grounds Monday, causing a brief lockdown, was a two-foot wide remote-controlled quadcopter that is sold in stores, officials said.
According to a Secret Servic...
26 January 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Secret Service: ‘Quadcopter’ drone crashed onto White House grounds | Fox News
A two-foot-long "quadcopter" drone crashed onto the White House grounds overnight, the Secret Service said Monday -- though the White House says the device posed no threat.
Brian Leary, a Secret Se...
26 January 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Why drones are good for business
Drones have made a huge splash over the last couple of years and grabbed a lot of headlines. This has mostly been due to strong consumer products coming onto the market from hardware manufactures s...
20 January 2015, by
Ben Fisher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/19/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the drone industry grows and becomes more complex, it is both more important and more difficult than ever to keep track of the business of unmanned syste...
19 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15
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Christoph Kohstall shows off the Nixi wearable drone at CES 2015. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty/AFP
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. Customs and Borde...
12 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Canada’s regulations for foreign commercial UAV operators
Canada’s relatively favorable framework for commercial UAV operations is attracting interest among foreign operators who are frustrated with restrictions in their home jurisdictions. The following p...
12 January 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29
A review of last week's drone related news by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College...
30 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Food delivery drones planned for restaurant chain & airport lounge
UPDATED 29.12.2014 Planned to be deployed at Singapore's Timbre Group 12-inch Pizza & Records restaurant in late 2015, these flying robotic waiters were recently presented to Singapore's Prime Min...
29 December 2014, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/22
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Wondering what to read this holiday season? We’ve chosen the best drone books of 2014.
News
A US drone strike reportedly killed six people in the Da...
22 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the aerial view becomes more accessible, questions persist about how to properly read an aerial image. Revisiting Harun Farocki’s Images of the World a...
15 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range
Skysense is a Berlin-based start up designing and manufacturing a range of products to enable the remote operation of drones. Their first two products are the Skysense Charging pad and Skysense Hanga...
15 December 2014, by
Ben Fisher
