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3D Robotics gets $30 million to mainstream aerial robotics
Frank Tobe
27 Sep 2013
... 3D Robotics, the open source unmanned aerial vehicle company headed by Chris Anderson, just got a $30 million infusion of venture funding to enable the company to “mainstream aerial robotics and...
Drones for Schools
Matthew Schroyer
24 Sep 2013
To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
CIS Blog
21 Aug 2013
A town called Deer Trail, located an hour east of Denver, Colo., is considering issuing a novel kind of hunting permit. If passed, the town would give residents licenses to "kill" drones ... by shooti...
The right way to regulate drone privacy
Robert Morris
19 Aug 2013
On August 6th, I had the honor of testifying in front of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee on regulation of drones, by the state of California. The committee is considering seve...
Videos of presentations at Ryerson University symposium on UAVs
John Payne
11 Aug 2013
On June 30th of this year, Ryerson University in Toronto held an event titled UAVs: Pros vs Cons Symposium. Some of the presentations have since been incorporated into a YouTube playlist by Nikola Dan...
Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer
Sabine Hauert
09 Aug 2013
Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate
CIS Blog
06 Aug 2013
The drones are coming! The drones are coming! But this time they’re not armed with hellfire missiles. These drones are packing a new kind of heat: steaming pizzas, fresh tacos, and cold beer.
...
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...
SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
Andra Keay
27 Jul 2013
SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain
Ludovic Daler and Hallie Siegel
26 Jul 2013
The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...
Outdoor autonomous systems, with Jonathan Roberts
Podcast team
26 Jul 2013
Link to audio file (44:12)
In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Roberts, research director of the Autonomous Systems Lab at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Brisbane Australia. Roberts leads a team of more...
Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
Christian Bettstetter and Evsen Yanmaz
17 Jul 2013
Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
Mike Hamer
01 Jul 2013
This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series.
In this tutorial we will:
Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS)
Learn a...
Science without borders: Becoming cross-disciplinary
Sabine Hauert
14 Jun 2013
Those who move away from home, for long enough, know that you end up not belonging anywhere. The more you move the easier it becomes. Looking back, you realize that you've learned new languages and cu...
Timelapse: Building an arena for flying robots | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
12 Jun 2013
Our photographer Duncan Davidson loves to shoot time-lapses; before every TED, you can find him behind the scenes hiding cameras to snap away for hours and days. In his latest piece, he tracks the c...
TED Global 2013 speaker Lian Pin Koh on “Conservation Drones”
Lian Pin Koh and Serge Wich
11 Jun 2013
Lian Pin Koh (left) and Serge Wich (right) in Zurich with an early prototype of Conservation Drone.
TED Global speaker/drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh and fellow researcher Serge Wich share how drones a...
Live at TED Global 2013: Tweets, photos and video for quadrotor fans
Robohub Editors
11 Jun 2013
Raffaello D'Andrea demos his quadrotor "athletes" at TED Global 2013.
Update with the full video below
Check out live tweets, amazing photos, TED blog posts and awesome video coverage of the session...
Behind the scenes at TED Global: Raffaello D’Andrea and team demo amazing quadrotor “athletes”
Markus Waibel and Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
With reporting and photos by Dario Brescianini and Mark Mueller and timelapse video by James Duncan Davidson.
Raffaello D'Andrea juggles quadrotors at TED Global 2013.
A quadrocopter swoops th...
How about we *not* make killer robots: Daniel Suarez at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
Technology thriller author, most recently of the book Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez has been thinking about drones for some time. But as he says, as he stands onstage at TEDGlobal 2013, he’s not h...
Athletic machines: Raffaello D’Andrea at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
“Athletic” is a term we use to describe human beings. But could it also be used to describe a machine?
In a demo recorded yesterday in his robot lab at TEDGlobal 2013, systems engineer Raffaell...
Those Flying Things: The speakers in Session 2 at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
When it comes to drones, a lot of ideas float in the ether. Technologists see potential for flying machines to help us in all sorts of unexpected ways, governments take measures that seem hard and fix...
Conservation drones in the field: Lian Pin Koh at TEDGlobal 2013 | TED Blog
Hallie Siegel
11 Jun 2013
At TEDGlobal 2013 environmental systems researcher Lian Pin Koh presents a new and unexpectedly benign use for drones: nature conservation. Nepal has natural landscapes that are beautiful — and i...
Quadrocopters learn from prior experience to improve slalom flying
Mike Hamer
11 Jun 2013
A new video released today by researchers from the Flying Machine Arena shows how a quadrocopter is able to learn from prior experience to improve future performance.
This new research is an extens...
Curved Artificial Compound Eye, with Ramon Pericet Camara and Michal Dobrzynski
Podcast team
31 May 2013
Link to audio file (22:01)In this episode, we speak with Ramon Pericet and Michal Dobrzynski from EPFL about their Curved Artificial Compound Eye (CurvACE) published in the Proceedings of the National...
CoCoRo Impressions 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Target Detection 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo swarm size awareness 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo Swarm Control 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
CoCoRo shoaling 2013
Thomas Schmickl
29 May 2013
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 ...
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU
Kate Darling
22 May 2013
Call for Proposals (closes May 27)
Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference
October 11-13, 2013
NYU School of Law...
This week’s military news
Frank Tobe
15 May 2013
... The Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft made its first aircraft carrier launch this week. Landings come later.
... The US Navy’s Naval Research Lab (NRL) flew a UAV for 48 hours, break...
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...
Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller
Podcast team
03 May 2013
Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
First controlled flight of an insect-sized robot
Sabine Hauert
02 May 2013
Researchers from the Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard have developed a millimeter-scaled insect robot that can autonomously control its flight. Their findin...
