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Hexagon acquires Aibotix
Hexagon, a Swedish provider of R&D and design, measurement and visualization products, with 14,000 employees in over 40 countries, and which serves a broad range of industr...
18 February 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Will companies like Google and Amazon usher in a new era for robotics?
Amazon announced its plans to launch a new drone delivery service this past December.
Recent eye-popping acquisitions of robotics technology companies by giants like Google and Amazon might sugge...
18 February 2014, by
Chad Partridge
Snap 2014: Aerial drones and 3D mapping software for civil engineering surveying
An Irish surveyor tested results (and had those results peer reviewed through the local university) of surveys done by drone and software vs. doing it by hand (which took days longer). The surveyor is...
06 January 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies
From the Ascending Technologies team:
Can you imagine drones delivering X-mas presents? We can – with a smile....
18 December 2013, by
Robohub Editors
AJung Moon on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”
2013 was a year filled with talk of drones.
I’m not saying this just because I’m biased by the recent news reporting on how large companies (Amazon, DHL, and UPS to be exact) are exploring t...
11 December 2013, by
AJung Moon
Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots
... Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots. DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places, eg, medicines to...
10 December 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Unmasking the RQ-180 | Ares blog
The Air Force has long debated how to conduct penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions since the venerable, high-speed SR-71 retired in 1998. But despite the need and a linge...
06 December 2013, by
Ioannis K. Erripis
Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg
On Sunday, Charlie Rose from CBS News 60 Minutes, interviewed Jeff Bezos about what is next for Amazon, the world's largest online retailer with more than 225 million customers.
Volume can reach 30...
05 December 2013, by
Frank Tobe
UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
Did you know that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion people to more than nine billion in the next 40 years? In order to meet this growing demand, agricultural producers wil...
12 November 2013, by
Ernest Earon
How drones will change your life | CNN
While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to co...
11 November 2013, by
CIS Blog
Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL.
Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
30 October 2013, by
Adrien Briod
Down on the farm with drones
Photo credit: Patrick Egan.
There are bushels of folks out there now spending money and putting time in finding niches for unmanned systems that already exist. You may be saying, isn’t that what we...
29 October 2013, by
Patrick Egan
Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture
Yamaha is testing spraying vineyards in Napa Valley through a COA with the FAA. Photo courtesy Yamaha Corp.
With the global market for unmanned systems in agriculture on the rise, companies that ma...
25 October 2013, by
Rich Tuttle
Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture
‘Drones in agriculture’ has been a topic hot lately, but is it a real business?
As a former Army UAV platoon leader and a current founder of an aerial data collection start-up, I believe so, bu...
24 October 2013, by
Robert Morris
Ten lessons for farm drones
3D Robotics's Vice President of Sales and Marketing John Cherbini prepares to launch a plane at Small Vines Wines in Sebastopol, Ca Sept. 13, 2013. The plane can help day-to-day operations on a farm...
22 October 2013, by
Chris Anderson
Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...
18 October 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
Maps & apps
Image: senseFly
... Two events, from different parts of the world, on the same day and subject: geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) and the use of “layering”...
08 October 2013, by
Frank Tobe
3D Robotics gets $30 million to mainstream aerial robotics
... 3D Robotics, the open source unmanned aerial vehicle company headed by Chris Anderson, just got a $30 million infusion of venture funding to enable the company to “mainstream aerial robotics and...
27 September 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Drones for Schools
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
24 September 2013, by
Matthew Schroyer
Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
A town called Deer Trail, located an hour east of Denver, Colo., is considering issuing a novel kind of hunting permit. If passed, the town would give residents licenses to "kill" drones ... by shooti...
21 August 2013, by
CIS Blog
The right way to regulate drone privacy
On August 6th, I had the honor of testifying in front of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee on regulation of drones, by the state of California. The committee is considering seve...
19 August 2013, by
Robert Morris
Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate
The drones are coming! The drones are coming! But this time they’re not armed with hellfire missiles. These drones are packing a new kind of heat: steaming pizzas, fresh tacos, and cold beer.
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06 August 2013, by
CIS Blog
SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
27 July 2013, by
Andra Keay
Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain
The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...
26 July 2013, by
Ludovic Daler and Hallie Siegel
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
17 July 2013, by
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS)
Learn a...
01 July 2013, by
Mike Hamer
The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...
12 June 2013, by
Raymond Oung
Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft
Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...
26 March 2013, by
Guido de Croon
Quadcopters advertising new Star Trek movie
A squadron of 30 LED-studded Ascending Technologies quadcopters hovered above Potters Fields Park near London’s Tower Bridge and, in conjunction with Earth Hour, formed a three-dimensional Star Trek...
24 March 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Active military robots around the world
This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...
15 March 2013, by
Ioannis K. Erripis
