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More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
Jonathan Downey
23 Jun 2017
Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Christian Hoffmann
14 Jun 2017
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
MIT News
09 Jun 2017
In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...
Drones land back to Earth at Xponential 2017
Oliver Mitchell
15 May 2017
JD Claridge’s story epitomizes the current state of the drone industry. Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being the first contestant on Shark Tank to receive money from all the Shark...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/10/17
April 3, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Public Safety Drones
Police and first responder drones were once a sci-fi fantasy; now they are a reality, appearing with increasing frequency in cities and towns ...
Collaborating machines and avoiding soil compression
John Payne
17 Mar 2017
Soil compression can be a serious problem, but it isn't always, or in all ways, a bad thing. For example, impressions made by hoofed animals, so long as they only cover a minor fraction of the soil s...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/6/17
February 27, 2017 – March 5, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We spoke to The Daily Beast to help make sense of ISIL’s growing use of armed consumer drones in the conflict in Sy...
Lady Gaga, 300 Intel drones, and the Super Bowl
Frank Tobe
07 Feb 2017
Three hundred drones flashed their colored lights and created a flying American flag as Lady Gaga sang a blend of "God Bless America” and "This Land Is Your Land" to 160 million viewers of the Super...
Parrot struggling, Lily fails and Google closes Titan Project as drone industry disunites
Frank Tobe
13 Jan 2017
Toy and entertainment drones, camera drones for professional and business use, moon-shot drones and military drones are all becoming more and more distinct as much of the drone industry gets commodit...
A drone that flies (almost) like a bird
NCCR Robotics
16 Dec 2016
Bioinspired robots that take their designs from biology has been a big research area in recent years, but a team from NCCR Robotics, Floreano Lab have just gone one step further and designed a feat...
Lofty goals crash land while B2B drones prosper
Frank Tobe
15 Nov 2016
Key executives leaving (or were requested to leave) Goggle's drone delivery Project Wing; GoPro recalls all of its newly launched Karma drones and doesn't offer a replacement; DJI slashes prices. What...
Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
Robohub Editors
03 Nov 2016
In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Robohub Editors
28 Oct 2016
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi,...
The changing landscape of drone funding
Frank Tobe
26 Oct 2016
CB Insights Drone Quarterly Financing Trends to VC-Backed Companies shows a downward trend. The Robot Report's monthly funding reports show something different: a change in the nature of drone applic...
Protecting infrastructure and innovation, under Section 2209 of the FAA extension
Diana Marina Cooper
25 Oct 2016
On July 15, 2016, Congress enacted the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act (the “Act”), which among other things, directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a process to enable appli...
Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
Why DJI is succeeding in making and selling drones and 3DR didn’t
Frank Tobe
18 Oct 2016
It was clear that DJI was winning the drone commoditization war by the end of 2015. Today's best sellers are mostly DJI products. Other makers (Parrot, 3D Robotics, Autel, Yuneec et al) haven't been a...
GoPro unveils long-awaited Karma stabilized drone system and kit
Frank Tobe
30 Sep 2016
GoPro fans and the financial world have been looking forward to GoPro's new Karma since GoPro announced last December that it was working on building its first drone. When they delayed the release ...
DelftAcopter: Innovative single-propeller hybrid drone
RoboValley
19 Sep 2016
By: Jurjen Slump
It takes off like a helicopter, then tilts 90 degrees and flies like a plane, using a single rotor blade. Because of that, it is light weight and can fly long distances. Meet the ...
InterDrone 2016: Professionalization and business of drone industry
Frank Tobe
16 Sep 2016
InterDrone concluded their 2nd annual trade show and conference in Las Vegas. The differences between the 2015 event and this one reflect the rapid changes in the industry and can be seen as a predict...
Tackling the European refugee crisis with solar-powered UAVs: A fully autonomous 26 hour search-and-rescue flight
Philipp Oettershagen
24 Aug 2016
One year after having demonstrated the 81-hour continuous solar-powered flight that is still the current world record in flight endurance for all aircrafts < 50kg total mass, the AtlantikSolar UAV ...
News bureaus and networks setting up drone divisions
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2016
CNN just inaugurated their new drone division. So have many other news organizations. Network providers are also setting up drone operations for a variety of purposes....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/18/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A cache of personal documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011 includes several letters that refer to the drones used by the U...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/20/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have passed competing drafts of the National Defense Authorization Act, which establishes funding prioritie...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/6/16
5/30/16 – 6/5/16
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted Abdullahi Haji Da’ud, a senior member of al-Shabab. In a statement, spokesperson Peter Cook said that the Pentagon is still eval...
The Drone Centre’s Weekly Roundup: 2/22/16
2/15/16 – 2/21/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In October, the White House announced that it will deploy a Predator drone unit to Cameroon. We have obtained the first photographic ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/15/16
2/1/16 – 2/7/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Last week, the Pentagon released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017. The budget includes nearly $4 billion for drone-related proc...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/25/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Since 2009, the U.S. Air Force’s civilian auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol, has been operating a fleet of single-prop Cessnas equipped with the c...
Into the heart of a glacier — with a drone
Adrien Briod and Hallie Siegel
20 Jan 2016
With their near-vertical walls and deep fractures, glacier crevasses are dangerously narrow ice caves that present a huge risk to search and rescue teams. In a partnership between Flyability (Winne...
Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to make hairpin turns in a simulated “forest”
CSAIL MIT
19 Jan 2016
Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL
Getting drones to fly around without hitting things is no small task. Obstacle-detection and motion-planning are two of computer science’s trickiest challenges, because...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/11/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Our Media Portals page was created in January 2015 to serve as resources for individuals interested in studying drones. As the Bard spring academic semester...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/4/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
2015 was a busy year in the drone world. As we head into 2016, we looked back at the biggest news stories of the year. Here’s the 2015 Drone Year in Revie...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29/15
In the News
Drones have been banned from World Cup ski events after a large multirotor drone that was being used to film a race nearly hit one of the skiers. Austrian skier Marcel Hirsche...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/21/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. military’s future-making technology organization, is playing a crucial role in the development of ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/14/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This week we published “Drone Sightings and Close Encounters: An Analysis,” which examines over 900 incidents involving drones and manned airc...
