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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/1/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone On May 20, the U.S. government released 103 documents seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. The documents, which have been translated ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/25/15

“Good Kill,” an IFC Films production, explores the use of drones by the U.S. military and issues related to remote participation in war. We sat down with actor Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Nicc...

Aerial Manipulation: Lecture by Bruno Siciliano

In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, walks us through advances in aerial manipulation with reference to three projects funded through the Europe...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/18/15

Earlier this month, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hosted its annual Unmanned Systems 2015 conference, the world’s largest drone trade show. But what is AUVSI, what exact...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/12/15

Last month, the U.S. Navy retired its two X-47B prototype unmanned combat drones. Known as Salty Dog 501 and Salty Dog 502, these remarkable aircraft are the most advanced and most autonomous drones e...

Airware launches new system and gets funded

  11 May 2015
Airware received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, which now joins GE Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and a host of other prominent VCs in funding this au...

Competition heats up for consumer-friendly aerial photography drones

and   06 May 2015
Competition is fierce in the world of consumer drones these days, especially among companies marketing products than can produce pro quality video and photography without having to hire a drone ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/4/15

While the most widely recognized military drones are fixed-wing designs like the Predator and Reaper, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) systems are becoming more widely used. What, exactly, are the ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/27/15

Earlier this month, the United Nations held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical and legal implications of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The Meeting, which was attended by delegates...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/20/15

Last week, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical, legal, and humanitarian implications of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LA...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/13/15

As the FAA grants more and more exemptions for the commercial use of drones, the immediate future of the domestic drone industry is beginning to take shape. We combed through the FAA’s drone exempti...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/6/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone The National Air and Space Museum recently took possession of a rather special drone: the Center for the Study of the Drone’s very own Phantom I quadcopte...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/30/15

Drone delivery, Senate hearing, law enforcement drones and many more stories. Read all the drone related news from last week on the Drone Center's Weekly roundup....

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/23/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone offers a scathing critique of the use of military drones. But rather than approach the issue from a policy or s...

Does your drone have a ‘remote’? Canada’s definition of autonomous operations is a scene out of Chappie

  16 Mar 2015
Chappie, the new robo-film on the block, takes place in Johannesburg, where the police force is made up of robots. In one of the early scenes, the main characters, Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yolandi t...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/16/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, senior U.S. government officials told the public that Saddam Hussein’s military was developing s...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone In late February, the Obama administration announced that it would ease long-standing restrictions on the sale of U.S. armed drones to foreign nations. The ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/2/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone As a Department of Homeland Security shutdown started to look increasingly likely, we wondered what that would mean for the Customs and Border Protection’...

Kalashnikov to produce drones | Russia & India Report

  02 Mar 2015
With the UAV market one of the biggest expanding markets in the defence industry, the Kalashnikov Concern believes it is time to enter production. The Russian weapons manufacturer has decided to ...

Drone 360, new magazine from DiscoverMagazine.com

  02 Mar 2015
Whether you’re curious about the ethics of unmanned aerial vehicles in law enforcement or itching to break into the quadcopter hobby, Drone 360 is packed with ideas and information to ...

3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding

  28 Feb 2015
The $50 million Series C funding, mainly from Qualcomm, provides the basis for a tacit partnership between Qualcomm and 3D Robotics with a goal of leveraging the pace of innovation in the smartphone i...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/23/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone The FAA’s proposed drones rules are only a draft of the final regulations. The FAA still has questions about how to best integrate commercial drones into ...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/16/15

The Federal Aviation Administration has released its proposed rules for the domestic, non-recreational use of drones weighing less than 55 lbs. USA President Obama issued a memorandum that outlines ne...

From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment

  12 Feb 2015
[tweetquote]What do you get when you cross hundreds of drones with an indoor football stadium equipped with GPS?[/tweetquote] Quite possibly the world's largest drone entertainment show the world has ...

Americans okay with police drones, worried about private UAVs | Sputnik

  11 Feb 2015
A new poll shows surprising opinions about the domestic use of small drones. Who should be allowd to fly them, where, and for what purpose? According to the results, Americans may be more trusting of ...

3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community

  11 Feb 2015
3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone President Obama’s budget for 2016 includes, among other things, the Pentagon’s spending plans for the year. These include significant investments in dro...

Robotics-law expert Ryan Calo weighs in on drone regulations — and ‘drunk droning’ | LA Times

  05 Feb 2015
Thanks a lot, one person, for sending us in the wrong direction. We're now talking about locking down platforms and extra regulation just because of one guy. On Twitter, some of us had this hashtag...

Liability concerns for drone co’s imposing technical measures to enforce no fly zones

  03 Feb 2015
Shortly after a Phantom crash-landed on the grounds of the White House, its maker, DJI, announced that it would release a mandatory firmware update that would restrict flights within 15.5 miles of dow...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/2/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone This week, we introduced the Portals, comprehensive collections of the best multimedia resources on a variety of issues on drones. Portals are now available...

What’s next for the commercial drone industry?

  27 Jan 2015
With the commercial use of drones to increase in the coming years, we wanted to take a look at where we are today and take a quick look at what is just around the corner....

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/26/15

The Drone Center is pleased to mark the 100th edition of our Weekly Roundup of drone news, commentary and analysis, art, and technology. We sent out the first Roundup almost two years ago to a group ...

Why drones are good for business

  20 Jan 2015
Drones have made a huge splash over the last couple of years and grabbed a lot of headlines. This has mostly been due to strong consumer products coming onto the market from hardware manufactures s...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/19/15

At the Center for the Study of the Drone As the drone industry grows and becomes more complex, it is both more important and more difficult than ever to keep track of the business of unmanned syste...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15

View image | gettyimages.com Christoph Kohstall shows off the Nixi wearable drone at CES 2015. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty/AFP At the Center for the Study of the Drone The U.S. Customs and Borde...

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/5/15

News The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed in a statement that it had carried out an airstrike in Somalia,killing Abdishakur, the chief of intelligence for al-Shabab. The strike, which is though...







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