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A foldable cargo drone
NCCR Robotics
15 Sep 2017
The field of drone delivery is currently a big topic in robotics. However, the reason that your internet shopping doesn’t yet arrive via drone is that current flying robots can prove a safety risk t...
Micro drones swarm above Metallica
Markus Waibel
04 Sep 2017
Metallica’s European WorldWired tour, which opened to an ecstatic crowd of 15,000 in Copenhagen's sold-out Royal Arena this Saturday, features a swarm of micro drones flying above the band. Shortly...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/21/17
August 14, 2017 – August 20, 2017...
Those amazing flying machines
Oliver Mitchell
16 Aug 2017
Last year, Intel partnered with Lady Gaga on the Super Bowl Halftime Show to showcase its latest aerial technology called “Shooting Star.” Intel did a reprise performance of its Shooting S...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/14/17
August 7, 2017 – August 13, 2017...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/7/17
July 31, 2017 – August 6, 2017
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At the Center for the Study of the Drone
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/31/17
A U.S. Army soldier launches an RQ-11 Raven during an exercise in North Carolina on July 27. Credit: Staff Sgt. Andrew Lee/U.S. Air Force
July 24, 2017 – July 30, 2017
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/24/17
July 17, 2017 – July 23, 2017
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News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan is reported...
Robots to the rescue!
Peter Feuilherade
19 Jul 2017
This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website.
Rapid advances in technology are revolutionizing the roles of aerial, terrestrial and maritime robotic systems in disaster relief, search...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/17/17
The South Korean Navy conducted shipboard flight tests for the TR-60 tilt-rotor UAV. Source: KARI
July 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017
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Singapore: An autonomous innovation center
Oliver Mitchell
16 Jul 2017
Jim Robinson of RRE Ventures said it best last month at the Silicon Dragon Conference when comparing Silicon Valley to New York, “There are two kinds of centers that have a lot of startups and t...
Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Jul 2017
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
Swarms of smart drones to revolutionise how we watch sports
Horizon Magazine
11 Jul 2017
by Joe Dodgshun
Drone innovators are transforming the way we watch events, from football matches and boat races to music festivals....
UAV-based crop and weed classification for future farming
Crops are key for a sustainable food production and we face several challenges in crop production. First, we need to feed a growing world population. Second, our society demands high-quality foods. Th...
Drones that drive
CSAIL MIT
27 Jun 2017
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature - many birds, insects and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibiliti...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow, Center for the Study of the Drone Co-Director Arthur Holland Michel discusses t...
CARNAC program researching autonomous co-piloting
Frank Tobe
26 Jun 2017
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is researching autonomous co-piloting so they can fly without a human pilot on board. The robotic system — called the Common Aircraft Retrofit f...
More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
Jonathan Downey
23 Jun 2017
Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
Thought leadership in social sector robotics
Patrick Meier
20 Jun 2017
WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/19/17
June 12, 2017 – June 18, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed two individuals suspected of being members of al-Qaeda. The strike targeted a vehicle in Shabwa province, one ...
How to reduce Zika using flying robots
Patrick Meier
15 Jun 2017
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at wo...
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Christian Hoffmann
14 Jun 2017
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/12/17
June 5, 2017 – June 11, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
At Washington D.C.’s WTOP radio, Center for the Study of the Drone co-director Dan Gettinger discusses the growing use...
Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
MIT News
09 Jun 2017
In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...
Localization uncertainty-aware exploration planning
Autonomous exploration and reliable mapping of unknown environments corresponds to a major challenge for mobile robotic systems. For many important application domains, such as industrial inspection o...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17
May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017
News
A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...
Faster, more nimble drones on the horizon
MIT News
31 May 2017
There’s a limit to how fast autonomous vehicles can fly while safely avoiding obstacles. That’s because the cameras used on today’s drones can only process images so fast, frame by individual fr...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/29/17
May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike reportedly killed three members of the Pakistani Taliban. According to the Associated Press, the strike targeted a compound in Khost provi...
Xponential 2017 in images
The National Robotics Education Foundation
25 May 2017
The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
Dutch start-up launches next generation mapping drone
RoboValley
23 May 2017
Drone company Atmos UAV has launched Marlyn, a lightweight drone which flies automatically, effortlessly and at high wind speeds. One of the first customers that signed up is Skeye, Europe’s leadin...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/22/17
News
A U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s drone registration requirement for recreational operators. The federal court ruled that the registration system ...
Watch this omnicopter fetch a ball
Dario Brescianini
17 May 2017
We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. The traject...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
Drones land back to Earth at Xponential 2017
Oliver Mitchell
15 May 2017
JD Claridge’s story epitomizes the current state of the drone industry. Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being the first contestant on Shark Tank to receive money from all the Shark...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/8/17
May 1, 2017 – May 7, 2017
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News
The European Aviation Safety Association has propo...
