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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...
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...
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...
Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range
Ben Fisher
15 Dec 2014
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...
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-...
GoPro to start making drones
Ben Fisher
04 Dec 2014
[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 ...
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
17 Nov 2014
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...
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
Frank Tobe
17 Nov 2014
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...
£1.25M advanced drone lab gets the go ahead
Ben Fisher
06 Nov 2014
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...
Snapshot of US UAV situation
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2014
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...
Watch this crazy drone with arms fly and turn a wheel in mid-air | TIME
Andra Keay
22 Sep 2014
I, for one, welcome our new armed-drone overlordsSource: time.comSee on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
Frank Tobe
28 Aug 2014
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...
DJI DropSafe System
Dronologista
31 Jul 2014
One of the main concerns about UAV, apart from privacy, is their safety. No one really wants to have a flying lawnmower falling from the sky, or buzzing near passenger aircraft. As drones become more ...
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2014
Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...
Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Dronologista
30 Jul 2014
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
The thriving drone community of South Africa
Dronologista
30 Jun 2014
Source: Skylab Productions
A couple of years ago, while I was living in Cape Town, I met a group of people who were so into drones and aerial filming that they managed to initiate me into the world ...
Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo recap
Frank Tobe
29 May 2014
"sUSB Expo 2014 showed signs of a maturing drone industry," said Antoine Martin of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Consulting.
The sold-out 2nd annual sUSB Expo 2014, held in San Francisco earlier this ...
Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014
Robohub Editors
08 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the second sUSB-Expo in San Francisco. Speakers include Henri Seydoux of Parrot Drone, Wolfgang Juchmann of Velodyne LiDAR, Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics, Chris Ande...
Drone crashes could cause headaches and lawsuits | NBC
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
A drone fell from the sky during a triathlon in western Australia, resulting in an injury to a runner and raising questions about who is legally responsible when an unmanned aerial vehicle comes crash...
What to do if you find a lost drone | Forbes
CIS Blog
03 Apr 2014
“I think if you find a drone, you set it free. If it comes back to you, it’s meant to be,” said legal drone expert Ryan Calo kiddingly, before more seriously suggesting calling the manufacturer ...
Commercial drone use legal in USA? Who’s willing to make bail?
Andra Keay
07 Mar 2014
Or perhaps the better question is: who's willing to be the test case?
A US federal court judge ruled against the FAA yesterday in their case against Raphael Pirker (the first and only person fine...
Robots, soldiers and cyborgs: The future of warfare
Armin Krishnan and Footnote
05 Feb 2014
Boston Dynamics' BigDog.
When we imagine the future of warfare, we often envision a battlefield where humanoid robots and other machines fight alongside or in the place of human soldiers. From the dr...
Snap 2014: Aerial drones and 3D mapping software for civil engineering surveying
Frank Tobe
06 Jan 2014
An Irish surveyor tested results (and had those results peer reviewed through the local university) of surveys done by drone and software vs. doing it by hand (which took days longer). The surveyor is...
AJung Moon on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”
AJung Moon
11 Dec 2013
2013 was a year filled with talk of drones.
I’m not saying this just because I’m biased by the recent news reporting on how large companies (Amazon, DHL, and UPS to be exact) are exploring t...
Drones on and on and on | The Boston Globe
Hallie Siegel
10 Dec 2013
US needs to join the aviation revolution
Last week’s announcement that Amazon is testing the delivery of packages with small drones has created a media storm, and seems to have taken most people by...
Amid drone talk, Amazon has real robots | Wall Street Journal Blog
Hallie Siegel
09 Dec 2013
Amazon got a lot of ink for its sci-fi drone delivery idea this week, but a more real and immediate robot effort underway in the Seattle retailer’s warehouses could save it as much as $916 million a...
Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority
Hallie Siegel
02 Dec 2013
Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer's hands within 30 minutes. They are planning to launch as soon a...
How drones will change your life | CNN
CIS Blog
11 Nov 2013
While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to co...
Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US
Frank Tobe
27 Jul 2013
Insitu's Scan Eagle x200.
Two small drones, Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA, have become the first federally certified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for civilian use in the US. O...
Robotic Justice | Huffington Post
CIS Blog
13 May 2013
From Roombas to drones, scientists are developing machines to be more and more self-sufficient. But even if they’re programmed to do good—what happens when something goes wrong? If a robot 'accide...
Boston bombings show future use for drones | Tulsa World
CIS Blog
10 May 2013
Boston Police Chief Edward F. Davis said he wants to use drones at next year's Boston Marathon, calling them "a good idea." Using a drone to pursue fleeing suspects like the Tsarnaev brothers would b...
A conversation with Henri Seydoux
Frank Tobe
03 May 2013
A growing business within Parrot S.A., (PARRO:EUROLIST B) is their AR.Drone line of products, parts and software. Their first quadcopter product was developed internally by (1) observing the $1 billio...
Mayor Bloomberg to NYC: Domestic drones are inevitable | NBC News
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2013
When asked if drone use by the NYPD would be a good idea, New York City mayor Bloomberg replied, "It's not a question of whether I think it's good or bad. I just don't see how you could stop that beca...
Journalism schools start teaching students to fly drones | RT
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2013
Next generation’s Walter Cronkites won’t be learning the traditional tricks and tips used by the journalists of today. Drones could be the next big tool for newsgathering, and some journalism stud...
The more Americans know about drones, the less they like them | Reason.com
CIS Blog
27 Mar 2013
In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke could spur much-needed reforms to American privacy law. ...
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Robert Morris
26 Mar 2013
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,...
