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MotherboardTV documentary on drones

http://youtu.be/kwkxx84wXNo This video, by MotherboardTV, was posted on YouTube in early December, but, at just over 50,000 views, it hasn't yet reached the audience it deserves. Not knowing muc...
09 February 2013, by

February 11th issue of Time to focus on drones

Chris Anderson, of DIYDrones, notes in his blog that he has, upon invitation from the editors, submitted an article for the February 11th issue of Time Magazine, which will focus on drones, civilian a...
03 February 2013, by

Empowered by UAVs

The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at an 12% CAGR reaching $18.7 billion in 2018 according to a new report of Market Research Media Ltd. The report finds that the U.S. military UAV mark...
10 January 2013, by

Swedish UAV ready for lift-off

In December 2012, Swedish CybAero AB,  a company developing and manufacturing autonomous unmanned helicopters, signed a strategic partnership agreement with the world's leading UAV company, Aer...
10 January 2013, by

Father of the drone still leading the way

Recently profiled in The Economist, in an article titled "The dronefather", Abe Karem, founder of Leading Systems, which eventually became the division of General Atomics which builds the Predator, an...
01 January 2013, by

Six rotors, six legs, one gripper

http://youtu.be/0sOvP9PhDQU Those crazy guys at Mad Lab Industries have put together a multimodal contraption that flies like a hexrotor (because it is one) and walks like a hexapod (because it is al...
23 December 2012, by



Unmanned Vehicle University accredited to grant Doctorate and Masters degrees

Unmanned Vehicle University just received an Arizona state license to grant Graduate Doctorate and Masters Degrees in Unmanned (Air/Ground/Sea/Space) Systems Engineering. The Arizona school also offe...
13 December 2012, by

Black Hawk operates autonomously in test flight | USARMYAMCOM

According to the Popular Science website “This newly-released video of a November 5 flight over the Diablo Range in California shows a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter autonomously navi...
07 December 2012, by

The nEUROn maiden flight

On December 1st, the nEUROn, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company’s flight test ...
05 December 2012, by

AeroVironment invests $3 million in Swedish CybAero

Credit. CybAero AeroVironment Inc.(NASDAQ: AVAV) the clear leader in the man-portable, hand-launched UAS market, has announced a strategic partnership with Sweden-based CybAero (NASDAQOMXS: ...
05 December 2012, by

USA – Rise of the Machines | Journeyman Pictures

“Most people see drones as a controversial weapon prowling over foreign battlegrounds. But as America's military campaigns wind down, these machines are coming home and set to change civilian li...
04 December 2012, by

An exclusive look inside Israel’s drones | CNNMoney

CNNMoney visits Israel's biggest defense manufacturer and gets special access to the drones of today and the future.See on money.cnn.com...
03 December 2012, by

Losing Humanity: The case against killer robots

Released yesterday by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, the report Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots (herein: the report) and associated press release and video (below), w...
20 November 2012, by

Drone variant of F-16 deploying to Tyndall AFB | WJHG

“The latest weapon in the military’s arsenal will arrive in Panama City on Monday.  The first of six QF-16’s, an unmanned version of the F-16 Falcon fighter jet, will land at Ty...
19 November 2012, by

Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Robot Dragonfly from TechJect. Developed over four years by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology for the US Air Force, the researchers are now i...
08 November 2012, by

Chris Anderson, Wired editor-in-chief, resigns to run 3D Robotics

... Anderson has held the editor-in-chief position for 11 years during which time, in addition to his work at Wired, he authored three books and founded DIY Drones and co-founded 3D Robotics. He also ...
05 November 2012, by

Most US drones openly broadcast secret video feeds | Danger Room | Wired.com

Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper drones, ...
29 October 2012, by

If I fly a UAV over my neighbor’s house, is it trespassing?

Even a toy drone with an HD camera scrambles our sense of property and privacy rights. See on www.theatlantic.com...
11 October 2012, by

[IROS 2012] Cooperative coral reef monitoring | IEEE Spectrum

Three different robots work together to help researchers remotely explore the ocean... See on spectrum.ieee.org...
10 October 2012, by

CanberraUAV Outback Challenge 2012 debrief | DIY Drones

A great write up of the recent UAV Outback Challenge 2012 from winning team, CanberraUAV. The team managed to successfully find a 'lost' person autonomously. See on diydrones.com...
10 October 2012, by

New UAV from senseFly | eBee

The eBee is lightweight enough to be launched by hand. It is fully autonomous during its entire flight. When it comes to landing, the eBee can either land in a circular clearing or, when space is lim...
09 October 2012, by

Drone America gives tour of unmanned technology | KTVN

“A local business opened up its usually very secretive facility for a tour today (Oct. 5th). Drone America designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft, right here in town (Reno, Nevada). Dro...
06 October 2012, by

Drone finds dummy ‘bushwalker’ in world-first

An unmanned aerial drone was able to find a dummy of a missing bushwalker with no human intervention in what CSIRO believes is a world-first for a non-military drone. See on www.smh.com.au...
05 October 2012, by

Three different worlds, one big show

The business of unmanned aerial, underwater and ground vehicles -- originally funded by DARPA, NSF and other government-sponsored research programs -- and the many ancillary businesses involved -- h...
13 August 2012, by

Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVxOleKf8s Last week, SenseFly and Pix4D announced deals with drone maker Parrot, in which Parrot will invest in both companies, 5 million Swiss francs in SenseFly and...
01 August 2012, by

Pilotless robot plane smart enough to navigate through bad weather

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been doing their bit to help save lives in the military for some time already – where pilotless vehicles ply routes in the air over battlefields in order to scou...
09 July 2012, by

Quadrotor light show

http://youtu.be/cseTX_rW3uM This video is a performance piece incorporating a troupe of 16 quadrotors. It's a very nice way to spend a few minutes....
27 June 2012, by

Aggressive flight using laser scanner, IMU, & 3D map

http://youtu.be/VUeKKvKEvYI Evan Ackerman, writing for IEEE Spectrum's Automaton blog, saysResearchers at MIT CSAIL have decided that slow and obstacle-free flight is boring, so they’ve come up wit...
30 May 2012, by







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