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Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum
Markus Waibel
02 Oct 2015
The first DroneApps Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently assembled 150 drone professionals from Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia for a two-day exchange of ideas. What set the event apart was ...
Tweets from #DroneApps
Robohub Editors
14 Sep 2015
DroneApps is a two-day forum for executives in charge of planning and leading the commercial use of drones in companies looking to increase productivity, reduce risks and conquer new markets, taking ...
First champion crowned for FPV drone racing UK nationals
David Stock
09 Sep 2015
James Bowles has been crowned UK champion following the first UK FPV drone racing national event organised by the British FPV drone racing association. The event was held at RAF Barkston Heath near G...
Aerial Manipulation: Lecture by Bruno Siciliano
In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, walks us through advances in aerial manipulation with reference to three projects funded through the Europe...
Airware launches new system and gets funded
Frank Tobe
11 May 2015
Airware received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, which now joins GE Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and a host of other prominent VCs in funding this au...
Consumer and B2B drone making is big business
Frank Tobe
08 May 2015
Lobbying for drone special interests rose from $35 million in 2011 to more than $186 million in 2014. But that is dwarfed by investments in drone makers such as DJI and 3DR, who just raised $75M and...
sUSB Expo 2015 Livestream
Robohub Editors
29 Apr 2015
The sUSB is livestreaming from San Francisco, featuring top names in the unmanned and remote sensing field, including Patrick Egan, Chris Anderson, Whitney Brooks, Michael Drobac, and Andra Keay, a...
Commercial drone market projected to grow 109% CAGR
Frank Tobe
27 Apr 2015
Markets and Markets, a Dallas, TX research firm, in an 189-page $4,650 report, is projecting that the global commercial drones market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 109.3% and ...
Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Frank Tobe
10 Apr 2015
Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2015
The $50 million Series C funding, mainly from Qualcomm, provides the basis for a tacit partnership between Qualcomm and 3D Robotics with a goal of leveraging the pace of innovation in the smartphone i...
FAA regulations draw inspiration from Canada, but miss key aspect
Diana Marina Cooper
19 Feb 2015
Various aspects of the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations that were released by the FAA draw inspiration from Canada’s approach to regulation. In fact, the FAA provides a handy compar...
Summary of the FAA’s proposed drone regulations
Diana Marina Cooper
19 Feb 2015
This past Sunday the FAA held a conference call to announce its highly anticipated small UAS (sUAS) regulations. Sunday morning might strike as odd timing, however it’s likely that the timing had t...
Small UAV coalition applauds the FAA’s release of the proposed suas rule as a good first step for industry
the Small UAV Coaltion
15 Feb 2015
The Small UAV Coalition is very pleased the FAA has at long last published its proposed small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) rule. At this time the proposed rule has not been made available to the pub...
Possible Leaked FAA Document Provides Hints Regarding Proposed Rulemaking for sUAS
Diana Marina Cooper
15 Feb 2015
A new document purporting to be prepared by the FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans provides hints regarding the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations. The possible leaked document is ...
From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
Hallie Siegel
12 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]What do you get when you cross hundreds of drones with an indoor football stadium equipped with GPS?[/tweetquote] Quite possibly the world's largest drone entertainment show the world has ...
Americans okay with police drones, worried about private UAVs | Sputnik
CIS Blog
11 Feb 2015
A new poll shows surprising opinions about the domestic use of small drones. Who should be allowd to fly them, where, and for what purpose? According to the results, Americans may be more trusting of ...
Flyability wins $1M Drones for Good competition
NCCR Robotics
10 Feb 2015
Flyability, a spin off company from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics, has won the $1M inaugural UAE Drones for Good competition with Gimball, the world’s first crash resilient drone....
Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics
Ben Fisher
09 Feb 2015
In Qualcomm's quest to shape the future of robotics, the US-based semi-conductor juggernaut acquired KMel Robotics last week for an undisclosed sum....
What’s next for the commercial drone industry?
Ben Fisher
27 Jan 2015
With the commercial use of drones to increase in the coming years, we wanted to take a look at where we are today and take a quick look at what is just around the corner....
DALER: A bio-inspired robot that can both fly and walk
NCCR Robotics
21 Jan 2015
The issue of how to use one robot across multiple terrains is an ongoing question in robotics research. In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Ro...
FAA issues waivers for real estate and agricultural UAVs
Frank Tobe
14 Jan 2015
The FAA granted two exemptions for commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems in U.S. airspace for real estate and agricultural crop scouting. But all is not as rosy as it appears....
GoPro to start making drones
Ben Fisher
04 Dec 2014
[tweetquote]GoPro is to start making its own line of drones and have them ready for release as early as Christmas 2015.[/tweetquote] Early indications of price point range from $500 to $1,000 for the ...
Transport Canada releases new framework for governing UAV operations
Diana Marina Cooper
28 Nov 2014
Earlier this month, Transport Canada announced that commercial operators will soon be able to benefit from two exemptions from the general Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) requirement. Tod...
Small UAV Coalition urges FAA to focus on regulations that enable domestic UAV innovation
Michael Drobac and the Small UAV Coaltion
20 Nov 2014
[tweetquote]Recent court cases distract from timely and safe integration of small UAVs.[/tweetquote]...
NTSB overturns Pirker case: Drones are aircraft
Dronologista
19 Nov 2014
The Pirker case was a landmark case in UAV legislation development. In 2011, Raphael Pirker used his Ritewing Zephyr UAV to make some aerial footage over the University of Virginia campus, and for tha...
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
17 Nov 2014
Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
Frank Tobe
17 Nov 2014
At a recent meeting at the United Nations, UN and UNICEF officials met with NGOs including Red Cross, food and peacekeeping groups, to discuss setting up a network of humanitarian uses for drones and...
Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists
Dronologista
21 Oct 2014
The semi-finalists of the UAE Drones For Good award have been announced. Here is a highlight of the international contenders; you can find the full list of semi-finalists on the UAE Drones For Good...
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
Hallie Siegel
24 Sep 2014
If you thought "SPARKED" - the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios - is too real-looking to be CGI, you were right. But why go to all the trouble of using quadrotors to ...
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
Markus Waibel
22 Sep 2014
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
“Drone Art” – an excerpt from The Drone Primer
This is an excerpt from The Drone Primer: A Compendium of the Key Issues, a free, one-stop, handbook addressing the basic and fundamental questions around drones in all their contexts, from foreign th...
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
Frank Tobe
28 Aug 2014
The Orlando Sentinel reported that the [tweetquote]Walt Disney Company filed for three patents involving flying entertainment robots[/tweetquote], a growing segment in the emerging service robotics in...
Coordinated UAV docking
Autonomous Robots Blog
18 Aug 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be both safe and maneuverable, but their s...
VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft
Dronologista
05 Aug 2014
One of the main disadvantages of copter drones is their low energy efficiency: in order to create and maintain a sufficient lift, a lot of energy is needed, thus decreasing the endurance of the UAV. T...
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2014
Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...
