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[IROS 2012] Cooperative coral reef monitoring | IEEE Spectrum

Andra Keay 10 Oct 2012

Three different robots work together to help researchers remotely explore the ocean... See on spectrum.ieee.org...

CanberraUAV Outback Challenge 2012 debrief | DIY Drones

Andra Keay 10 Oct 2012

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...

New UAV from senseFly | eBee

Andra Keay 09 Oct 2012

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...

Drone America gives tour of unmanned technology | KTVN

John Payne 06 Oct 2012

“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...

Drone finds dummy ‘bushwalker’ in world-first

Andra Keay 05 Oct 2012

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...

Three different worlds, one big show

Frank Tobe 13 Aug 2012

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...

Parrot invests in SenseFly and Pix4D

John Payne 01 Aug 2012

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...

Pilotless robot plane smart enough to navigate through bad weather

Andra Keay 09 Jul 2012

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...

Quadrotor light show

John Payne 27 Jun 2012

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....

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

John Payne 30 May 2012

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...

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