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Black Hawk operates autonomously in test flight | USARMYAMCOM
John Payne
07 Dec 2012
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...
The nEUROn maiden flight
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
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 ...
AeroVironment invests $3 million in Swedish CybAero
Wolfgang Heller
05 Dec 2012
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: ...
USA – Rise of the Machines | Journeyman Pictures
John Payne
04 Dec 2012
“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...
An exclusive look inside Israel’s drones | CNNMoney
John Payne
03 Dec 2012
CNNMoney visits Israel's biggest defense manufacturer and gets special access to the drones of today and the future.See on money.cnn.com...
US doesn’t have drone monopoly | Huffpost LIve
AJung Moon
14 Nov 2012
What are the current issues of drone technology? What countries have the technology? How do people feel about the covert nature of the technology? This experts discuss the status of the technology and...
Robotic dragonflies take to the sky (with your help)
Mike Hamer
08 Nov 2012
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...
Video: Quadrocopter learns from its mistakes, perfects air racing
Markus Waibel
08 Nov 2012
Manual programming of robots only gets you so far. And, as you can see in the video, for quadrocopters that's not very far at all (see the "Without Learning" part starting at 1:30):...
Chris Anderson, Wired editor-in-chief, resigns to run 3D Robotics
Frank Tobe
05 Nov 2012
... 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 ...
Fly and film in HD
Frank Tobe
31 Oct 2012
... Parrot (PARRO on the Euronext Paris exchange), a French company famous for its audio and wireless devices for phones and cars, unveiled their first AR.Drone at CES in 2010 to huge crowds (I was th...
Drone on YOMYOMF
John Payne
17 Oct 2012
http://youtu.be/u8PzkGM60Lc
YOMYOMF is one of a long, and growing, list of YouTube funded channels. Drone is a four-part series of short-format videos, telling the story of a humanoid com...
eBee first product from Parrot/senseFly investment
Frank Tobe
10 Oct 2012
In July, the Parrot Group partnered with senseFly, a Swiss start-up and spin-off from the Swiss EPFL, and invested $5.3 million to help senseFly grow. Their initial plan was to develop a hig...
Stephen Wolfram blog: Kids, arduinos and quadricopters
Ioannis K. Erripis
04 Oct 2012
Presentation at Maker Faire by Christopher Wolfram shows off Mathematica with a potentiometer hooked up on the Arduino board and by flying a quadricopter drone in one line of code.
See on blog.stephe...
IEEE Robotics journal compares open source FCs | DIY Drones
Andra Keay
30 Sep 2012
Doug Weibel writes: I just got the most recent issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation magazine, which has a theme of quadcopters as robotics research platforms.…...
See on diydrones.com...
Video: Watch flying robots cooperate, throw and catch balls
Markus Waibel
27 Sep 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGJBV1xnJI
My colleagues at the ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have just released a new video. Here is what Robin Ritz, Lead Researcher on the project, has ...
Joggobot will keep you moving
John Payne
15 Jun 2012
http://youtu.be/4x4d8IX_0kI
Researchers at the Exertion Games Lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have created a robot to support you while exercising. Joggobot is a modified version of th...
Is 2012 the year that robot applications take root?
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2012
Tell us what apps you want.
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. Over 1.2 billion apps were downloaded between Chris...
Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS
Ioannis K. Erripis
30 May 2011
Maverick is a small uav made by Prioria, a company founded in 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida. It is portable, very light and has most of the features a comme...
Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace
Ioannis K. Erripis
24 Mar 2011
The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...
Discussion of military robotics
John Payne
02 Apr 2009
The Inkwell discussion mentioned below is now underway. See Inkwell.vue topic #352 on The WELL.
For two weeks, beginning April 29th, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow P.W. Singer will be o...
