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Robohub Editors
14 Sep 2015
DroneApps is a two-day forum for executives in charge of planning and leading the commercial use of drones in companies looking to increase productivity, reduce risks and conquer new markets, taking ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/14/15
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We have continued our analysis of hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration’s reports of near misses involving drones and manned aircraft. Among other things, we discovered that inciden...
Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2015
The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...
First champion crowned for FPV drone racing UK nationals
David Stock
09 Sep 2015
James Bowles has been crowned UK champion following the first UK FPV drone racing national event organised by the British FPV drone racing association. The event was held at RAF Barkston Heath near G...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #36/52: Relay swarm
Thomas Schmickl
08 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 CoCoRo – w...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/7/15
From comedy to car commercials, drones have provoked a frenzy of popular media portrayals that are equal parts funny, hyperbolic, and disturbing. We take a closer look at these representations in orde...
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Audrow Nash
04 Sep 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...
CoCoRo: Tracking the development of the world’s largest autonomous underwater swarm
Thomas Schmickl
04 Sep 2015
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built the world’s largest swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout the first half ...
Price wars: Counting the cost of drones, planes and satellites
Edd Gent
03 Sep 2015
One of the main advantages of drone-based imaging touted by both manufacturers and service providers is its low cost compared to competing technologies like airplanes and satellites. But a simple Inte...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #35/52: Relay chain communication
Thomas Schmickl
01 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 CoCoRo – w...
California drone bill misses the mark
Diana Marina Cooper
01 Sep 2015
Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/31/15
The U.S. National Guard operates a substantial—and strategically critical—fleet of Predator and Reaper drones in America’s wars. Now, the service is taking steps to bring those drones home for u...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay chain basics
Thomas Schmickl
25 Aug 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: 8/24/15
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600 incidents in which drones interfered with the national airspace and, in some cases, came close to colliding with manned a...
Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
Fotokite
19 Aug 2015
Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #33/52: Combined scenario number one – relay chain
Thomas Schmickl
18 Aug 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: 8/17/15
Like many other regions of the world, Southeast Asia has been experiencing something of a drone boom. Hobbyists and professionals are becoming airborne in increasingly large numbers, militaries are vy...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #32/52: Combined scenario number one – target find
Thomas Schmickl
11 Aug 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 – we...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/10/15
Even though it is less than a year old, the regulated domestic commercial drone industry has already spread across the entire United States. We have created a series of maps in order to better underst...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #31/52: Combined scenario number one – base station arrival
Thomas Schmickl
04 Aug 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 – we...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/3/15
While drones have received the lion’s share of attention from among US tools in the War on Terror, Special Operations Forces are growing in reach and importance. We explore how Special Ops and dro...
Solar-powered flight for 81 hours: A new endurance world record
Philipp Oettershagen
31 Jul 2015
Two weeks after demonstrating AtlantikSolar’s first 24-hour flight, the fixed-wing team of ETH Zurich’s Autonomous Systems Lab has reached another milestone: 81.5 hours and 2316 km of continuou...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #30/52: Combined scenario number one
Thomas Schmickl
29 Jul 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 – we...
Is all the hype about drone commercialization clouding our judgement?
Robert Morris
28 Jul 2015
The hype around the consumer drone industry is so thick that it clouds our judgement. It is as if our biggest boosters have forgotten what our technology stack really does, what it doesn’t do, and ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #29/52: Jeff – preprogrammed trajectory
Thomas Schmickl
22 Jul 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 ...
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
Ben Fisher
21 Jul 2015
When we say drone, we ofter think of the flying platform. But that's just half the story. Drones are amazing flying tools because of their ability to position sensing payloads in the sky. Most operato...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #28/52: All magnet finding
Thomas Schmickl
14 Jul 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 ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/13/15
Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written numerous influential works on the internal dynami...
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
Philipp Oettershagen
09 Jul 2015
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #27/52: Jeff target find in a large pool
Thomas Schmickl
08 Jul 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 ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Until the FAA implements comprehensive regulations for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft in US skies, the only companies legally permitted to fly dron...
The Year of CoCoRo Video #26/52: Magnetic target – four compartments
Thomas Schmickl
30 Jun 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 ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/22/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In a recent report on China’s military capabilities, the Department of Defense told Congress that China will manufacture up to 42,000 military drones for ...
