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Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Frank Tobe
10 Apr 2015
Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
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 Year of CoCoRo Video #14/52: LilyCam in a Lake
Thomas Schmickl
05 Apr 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
As drone use flourishes, the FAA waivers, and Amazon is forced offshore
Frank Tobe
31 Mar 2015
Funding continues to flow to drone ventures worldwide even as news from the FAA suggests it will be many years before true autonomous flight will be allowed in the US. Meanwhile Amazon feels they mus...
Matternet launches drone delivery platform
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
31 Mar 2015
I often speak about deliverbots — the potential for ground-based delivery robots. There is also excitement about drone (UAV/quadcopter) based delivery. We’ve seen many proposed projects, including...
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....
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
30 Mar 2015
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
Amazon tests delivery drones at secret Canada site after US frustration
Hallie Siegel
30 Mar 2015
Exclusive: Guardian gains access to unnamed British Columbia site where tech giant’s roboticists and engineers are developing their unmanned delivery serviceSee it on Scoop.it, via Robotics...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #13/52: Lilycam in nature
Thomas Schmickl
29 Mar 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
Europe agrees on regulatory drone framework to move industry forward
Ben Fisher
28 Mar 2015
There is not a week that goes by where regulation isn't a hot topic when it comes to drones. But for any regulated industry where technology is advancing greater than new rules can be agreed upon, it...
3D Robotics launches app development kit ‘DroneKit’
Ben Fisher
26 Mar 2015
3D Robotics has unveiled DroneKit, an open-source development kit for app development. This is a clear invite for the wider development community to build upon 3DR's flight control software....
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
Ben Fisher
25 Mar 2015
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
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...
The Year of CoCoRo Video#12/52: Fun with Jeff in the pool
Thomas Schmickl
22 Mar 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2015
Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
Does your drone have a ‘remote’? Canada’s definition of autonomous operations is a scene out of Chappie
Diana Marina Cooper
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 Year of CoCoRo Video #11/52: Out of the lab in Livorno
Thomas Schmickl
15 Mar 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
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 Year of CoCoRo Video #10/52: Feeding Jeff with magnets
Thomas Schmickl
08 Mar 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
Canada’s approach to risk management for nighttime drone flights
Diana Marina Cooper
03 Mar 2015
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) limits SUAS operations to daylight hours. The FAA concedes that the restriction on nighttime flights may neg...
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’...
How Canada handles beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations
Diana Marina Cooper
02 Mar 2015
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) proposes to restrict operations that are completed beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS). However, the FAA has...
Kalashnikov to produce drones | Russia & India Report
Hallie Siegel
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
Hallie Siegel
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 ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #09/52: Jeff in the water current
Thomas Schmickl
01 Mar 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
Frank Tobe
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 Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis
Thomas Schmickl
22 Feb 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
FAA regulations draw inspiration from Canada, but miss key aspect
Diana Marina Cooper
19 Feb 2015
Various aspects of the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations that were released by the FAA draw inspiration from Canada’s approach to regulation. In fact, the FAA provides a handy compar...
Summary of the FAA’s proposed drone regulations
Diana Marina Cooper
19 Feb 2015
This past Sunday the FAA held a conference call to announce its highly anticipated small UAS (sUAS) regulations. Sunday morning might strike as odd timing, however it’s likely that the timing had t...
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...
Small UAV coalition applauds the FAA’s release of the proposed suas rule as a good first step for industry
the Small UAV Coaltion
15 Feb 2015
The Small UAV Coalition is very pleased the FAA has at long last published its proposed small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) rule. At this time the proposed rule has not been made available to the pub...
Possible Leaked FAA Document Provides Hints Regarding Proposed Rulemaking for sUAS
Diana Marina Cooper
15 Feb 2015
A new document purporting to be prepared by the FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans provides hints regarding the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations. The possible leaked document is ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #07/52: Lily flocking by slimemold
Thomas Schmickl
15 Feb 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo â€...
From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
Hallie Siegel
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 ...
