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Rescue drone that finds survivors using their cellphones’ WiFi signals

Dronologista 25 Jul 2014

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...

Winners of hurricane-tracking UAS design challenge announced | NASA News

Hallie Siegel 09 Jul 2014

From a NASA press release: A team of students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg captured first place in NASA's University Aeronautics Design C...

Aerial drone maps show Philippine typhoon devastation, aid in reconstruction

Adam Klaptocz 07 May 2014

A drone's eye view of the many coconut trees that were uprooted when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Photo Essay Six months ago, Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippine’s South East coast....

Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy

Hallie Siegel 02 May 2014

The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...

PulsedLight, Project Tango, Occipital and the Prime Sense problem

Andra Keay 24 Mar 2014

Ever since Apple bought Prime Sense, roboticists have been asking what’s going to fill the gap. Robots need to know where they are and what’s around them. The Carmine, and the unveiled but undeliv...

ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017

Frank Tobe 24 Mar 2014

Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years....

Using geometry to help robots map their environment

Autonomous Robots Blog 26 Feb 2014

This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. To get around unknown environments, most robots will need to build maps. To help the...

Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture

Rich Tuttle 25 Oct 2013

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...

Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture

Robert Morris 24 Oct 2013

‘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...

DARC talks about the elephants in the room – freight planes and fighters

Andra Keay 23 Oct 2013

It was fitting that Missy Cummings had the last word at the DARC drones and aerial robotics conference in NY. As an ex-TopGun navy pilot who saw drones taking over her job, she was the one to talk abo...

Ten lessons for farm drones

Chris Anderson 22 Oct 2013

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...

Start-up profile: Knightscope

Frank Tobe 19 Oct 2013

What happens when you mix big data analytics, a policeman, homeland security, some funding from an insurance company and robotics? You get Knightscope, a Santa Clara, California start-up developin...

Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics

Hallie Siegel 18 Oct 2013

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...

Students hope their ship inspection robot will significantly reduce dry-dock time for maritime transport industry, improve safety for inspectors

Florian Berlinger, Clemens Clausen and Hallie Siegel 30 Sep 2013

Students take a research tour with Damen ship repairs in Rotterdam. A team of students from ETH Zurich and ZHdK have developed a prototype for a robotic ship inspection unit that is capable of cond...