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Small UAV Coalition urges FAA to focus on regulations that enable domestic UAV innovation
[tweetquote]Recent court cases distract from timely and safe integration of small UAVs.[/tweetquote]...
20 November 2014, by
Michael Drobac and the Small UAV Coaltion
NTSB overturns Pirker case: Drones are aircraft
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...
19 November 2014, by
Dronologista
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
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...
17 November 2014, by
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
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...
17 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists
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...
21 October 2014, by
Dronologista
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
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 ...
24 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
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...
22 September 2014, by
Markus Waibel
“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...
12 September 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
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...
28 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Coordinated UAV docking
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...
18 August 2014, by
Autonomous Robots Blog
VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft
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...
05 August 2014, by
Dronologista
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
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...
30 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
30 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals
Search and rescue operations are increasingly using drones, and the speed and ease with which UAVs can be launched is especially important when applying them as an emergency response tool. Jonathan C...
25 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Drones against illegal fishing
Image source: Flickr
With industry losses worth US$23 billion per year, illegal fishing represents a major global problem. One out of three bluefin tunas are caught illegally, as are around 20% of a...
24 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Flying Donkey Challenge on hold as Kenyan authorities cope with Westgate Mall fallout
Today organizers announced that the first edition of the Flying Donkey Challenge in Kenya, which had preliminary sub-challenges slated to begin this November, is on hold indefinitely due to delays in ...
18 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Alleged drone ‘Peeping Tom’ photo reveals perils of drone related journalism | Forbes
Last month a Seattle woman said that a drone made her nervous because it was flying outside of her window. Early media reports called the device a flying “Peeping Tom.” Soon afterwards, nat...
15 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...
09 June 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Bay Area Maker Faire biggest yet
Aerial shot of the Bay Area Maker Faire 2014 from 3D Robotics using their IRIS autonomous aerial vehicle.
Maker Faire, held at the San Mateo Event Center May 17-18, was the biggest Maker Faire Bay A...
29 May 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo recap
"sUSB Expo 2014 showed signs of a maturing drone industry," said Antoine Martin of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Consulting.
The sold-out 2nd annual sUSB Expo 2014, held in San Francisco earlier this ...
29 May 2014, by
Frank Tobe
America’s dominance in military robotics is starting to crumble
Foreign Policy Magazine's recent examination of "The Looming Robotics Gap" by University of Pennsylvania International Relations Associate Professor Michael C Horowitz, and recent Pentagon in...
19 May 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014
Watch the live stream from the second sUSB-Expo in San Francisco. Speakers include Henri Seydoux of Parrot Drone, Wolfgang Juchmann of Velodyne LiDAR, Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics, Chris Ande...
08 May 2014, by
Robohub Editors
ECA Group acquires UAV copter maker Infotron for $10 million
Groupe Gorgé, via their subsidiary ECA S.A., has acquired French UAV copter provider Infotron for €2.5 million and 375,000 shares of ECA - a combined value of around $10 million. The acquisition s...
22 April 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC
A drone fell from the sky during a triathlon in western Australia, resulting in an injury to a runner and raising questions about who is legally responsible when an unmanned aerial vehicle comes crash...
09 April 2014, by
CIS Blog
What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes
“I think if you find a drone, you set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s meant to be,” said legal drone expert Ryan Calo kiddingly, before more seriously suggesting calling the manufacturer ...
03 April 2014, by
CIS Blog
No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video … Or were they?
What's with all the quadrotors in auto advertising these days? And what do quadrotor swarms have to do with cars? Probably not much at all, but apparently associating your auto brand with high-perfor...
28 March 2014, by
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge
The Flying Donkey Challenge asks teams to create a UAV solution that can eventually circle Mount Kenya collecting and delivering 20 kilo payloads. The first subchallenge in this escalating task will t...
17 March 2014, by
Andra Keay
Facebook plans to offer Internet service using aerial robots
In a story on TechCrunch, it was revealed that Facebook is in talks to acquire or partner with Titan Aerospace. Titan makes solar-powered aerial robots that can fly for up to five years without needin...
05 March 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News
A journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Hartford police officers violated his free-speech rights by questioning his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck. Pedr...
25 February 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Drone journalism: Is Canada ready? | CBC’s The Current
Drones are going from making the news for deadly aerial bombings to gathering the news - aerial vehicles equipped with cameras have flown over disasters - in the pursuit of a story. Today, we hear fro...
25 February 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
