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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/17/17

The South Korean Navy conducted shipboard flight tests for the TR-60 tilt-rotor UAV. Source: KARI July 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox...

18 July 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17

May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017 News A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...

05 June 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...

16 May 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/8/17

May 1, 2017 – May 7, 2017 If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News The European Aviation Safety Association has propo...

08 May 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17

January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...

09 January 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

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

Noel Sharkey: Ban the killer robots before it’s too late | CNN

As wars become increasingly automated, we must ask ourselves how far we want to delegate responsibility to machines. Where do we want to draw the line? Noel Sharkey on CNN....

03 April 2013, by Hallie Siegel

VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...

26 March 2013, by Robert Morris

Don’t call ’em drones: The wide world of unmanned flying machines | NBC News

There are different types of unmanned flying machines, and no one agrees which are drones and which aren't. Some say drones are dumb, like the radio-controlled planes used for target practice in World...

20 March 2013, by Hallie Siegel

Daniel H. Wilson on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”

Robots have already changed the face of modern warfare, particularly through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly called "drones." Currently, armed drone aircraft are in widespread use...

16 March 2013, by Daniel Wilson

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

Robohub focus: Robots and warfare

For the rest of this week, Robohub will have a special focus on the use of robots in warfare. All kinds of robots are being developed for strategic defence and military action (in space, in the...

13 March 2013, by Hallie Siegel

Drone filibuster delays US Senate’s vote on new CIA director

A US Senate vote to confirm John Brennan as CIA director was delayed by a 13-hour talking filibuster by junior Republican Senator Rand Paul. US President Barack Obama has faced criticism in hi...

07 March 2013, by Hallie Siegel

Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS

Maverick is a small uav made by Prioria, a company founded in 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida. It is portable, very light and has most of the features a comme...

30 May 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis

Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace

The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...

24 March 2011, by Ioannis K. Erripis