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The Year of CoCoRo Video #48/52: Workshops
Thomas Schmickl
01 Dec 2015
Most of the videos from The Year of CoCoRo were shot during workshops we held throughout the project. These workshops, which were usually focussed on one or several specific demonstrators, were wha...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/30/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This fall season has been a busy one for the drone industry, and, for some a very lucrative one. The past few months have seen a spike in the sale of milita...
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Marine Robotics Systems, with Stefan Williams
Ron Vanderkley
30 Nov 2015
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In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Stefan Williams of the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Marine Systems Group. They discuss the future of...
Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2015
After the Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of their objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration, they undertook to develop and recommend a re...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #47/52: Underwater robots swarm at CEBIT consumer electronics show
Thomas Schmickl
24 Nov 2015
In March 2014, we exhibited CoCoRo in Hannover, Germany at the CEBIT --Â Europe's largest consumer electronics fair. At first we thought we might be out of place and that our exhibit would be overshad...
Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video
Hallie Siegel
20 Nov 2015
Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #46/52: JeffShoaling
Thomas Schmickl
17 Nov 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...
What you need to know about underwater drones
Dan Gettinger
16 Nov 2015
Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
By now, we are well-acquainted with drones that fly, crawl, and sail, but what about drones that plumb the depths of the ocean, scouring the seas ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #45/52: Swarm control
Thomas Schmickl
10 Nov 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/9/15
 At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We have updated our database of companies currently operating drones within the U.S. In this latest update, we discuss a growing trend in companies that...
Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph: Video demo
CSAIL MIT
03 Nov 2015
By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL
A researcher from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed an obstacle-detection system that allows a drone to autonomously di...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #44/52: Lily shoaling
Thomas Schmickl
03 Nov 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Lisa Ellman knows a thing or two about the challenges of regulating domestic drones use. During a three-year stint at the White House, she served as a princ...
What we know about the FAA’s new drone registration requirement, and what we don’t
Hallie Siegel
30 Oct 2015
Following informal reports on Friday, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) officially announced yesterday the creation of a task force that will guide the development of a registration proce...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #43/52: Channel switching
Thomas Schmickl
27 Oct 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – w...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/26/15
A Message from the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Center for the Study of the Drone was founded in 2012 to create original, inquiry-driven content and resources that help the public and poli...
RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea
Wyss Institute
24 Oct 2015
By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications
Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...
Governments greasing wheels in robotics
Frank Tobe
21 Oct 2015
The South Korean government funded Samsung $14.8M to develop and manufacture industrial robots; the US FDA just gave approval to Corindus Vascular Robotics for a new medical device; and the US FAA s...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #42/52: Murky waters
Thomas Schmickl
20 Oct 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – we...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/19/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
While drones and targeted killing have received almost no attention so far in the presidential elections, it is an issue in which the next commander-in-chie...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The MQ-9 Reaper is perhaps the most famous military drone in history. While many will immediately recognize its distinctive shape, few outside the Pentagon ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #41/52: Metacognition
Thomas Schmickl
13 Oct 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – we...
Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights
Adrien Briod
08 Oct 2015
Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #40/52: Adaptive layers water column
Thomas Schmickl
06 Oct 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – we...
Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/5/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned aircraft have already revolutionized war and commerce, but now a new breed of ultra-high-altitude aircraft capable of remaining airborne for extens...
Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum
Markus Waibel
02 Oct 2015
The first DroneApps Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently assembled 150 drone professionals from Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia for a two-day exchange of ideas. What set the event apart was ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #39/52: Adaptive layers in a pool
Thomas Schmickl
29 Sep 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – we...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/28/15
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At the Center for the Study of the Drone
One year ago, the British Parliament authorized military intervention against the Islamic State. We have dived into the Royal Air Force’s repor...
Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Sep 2015
The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....
The Year of CoCoRo Video #38/52: BEECLUST
Thomas Schmickl
22 Sep 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – weâ€...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/21/15
Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a drone bill that, if enacted, would have placed greater restrictions on drone use than any other piece of state legislation. The story of S....
1,407 FAA exemptions for UAS
Frank Tobe
21 Sep 2015
In May 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began accepting petitions for exemptions to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) commercially in civilian airspace. As of 1 September 2015,...
Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2015
[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #37/52: Combined scenario two
Thomas Schmickl
15 Sep 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CooRo – we...
