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Kalashnikov to produce drones | Russia & India Report
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 ...
02 March 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Drone 360, new magazine from DiscoverMagazine.com
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 ...
02 March 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
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...
28 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
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 ...
23 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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...
16 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
[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 ...
12 February 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Americans okay with police drones, worried about private UAVs | Sputnik
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 ...
11 February 2015, by
CIS Blog
3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community
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...
11 February 2015, by
Ben Fisher
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...
09 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Robotics-law expert Ryan Calo weighs in on drone regulations — and ‘drunk droning’ | LA Times
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...
05 February 2015, by
CIS Blog
Liability concerns for drone co’s imposing technical measures to enforce no fly zones
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...
03 February 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
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...
02 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
What’s next for the commercial drone industry?
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....
27 January 2015, by
Ben Fisher
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 ...
26 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Why drones are good for business
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...
20 January 2015, by
Ben Fisher
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...
19 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15
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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...
12 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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...
05 January 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29
A review of last week's drone related news by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College...
30 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/22
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Wondering what to read this holiday season? We’ve chosen the best drone books of 2014.
News
A US drone strike reportedly killed six people in the Da...
22 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the aerial view becomes more accessible, questions persist about how to properly read an aerial image. Revisiting Harun Farocki’s Images of the World a...
15 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range
Skysense is a Berlin-based start up designing and manufacturing a range of products to enable the remote operation of drones. Their first two products are the Skysense Charging pad and Skysense Hanga...
15 December 2014, by
Ben Fisher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...
09 December 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
GoPro to start making drones
[tweetquote]GoPro is to start making its own line of drones and have them ready for release as early as Christmas 2015.[/tweetquote] Early indications of price point range from $500 to $1,000 for the ...
04 December 2014, by
Ben Fisher
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...
17 November 2014, by
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
At a recent meeting at the United Nations, UN and UNICEF officials met with NGOs including Red Cross, food and peacekeeping groups, to discuss setting up a network of humanitarian uses for drones and...
17 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
£1.25M advanced drone lab gets the go ahead
Imperial College London today announced it is to develop the UK's most advanced aerial robotics laboratory. The drone lab to be known as The Brahman Vasudevan Aerial Robotics lab will be two stories a...
06 November 2014, by
Ben Fisher
Snapshot of US UAV situation
The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop an...
25 September 2014, by
Andra Keay
Watch this crazy drone with arms fly and turn a wheel in mid-air | TIME
I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlordsSource: time.comSee on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
22 September 2014, by
Andra Keay
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
The Orlando Sentinel reported that the [tweetquote]Walt Disney Company filed for three patents involving flying entertainment robots[/tweetquote], a growing segment in the emerging service robotics in...
28 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
