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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/19/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the drone industry grows and becomes more complex, it is both more important and more difficult than ever to keep track of the business of unmanned syste...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/12/15
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Christoph Kohstall shows off the Nixi wearable drone at CES 2015. Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty/AFP
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. Customs and Borde...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/5/15
News
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed in a statement that it had carried out an airstrike in Somalia,killing Abdishakur, the chief of intelligence for al-Shabab. The strike, which is though...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/29
A review of last week's drone related news by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/22
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Wondering what to read this holiday season? We’ve chosen the best drone books of 2014.
News
A US drone strike reportedly killed six people in the Da...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As the aerial view becomes more accessible, questions persist about how to properly read an aerial image. Revisiting Harun Farocki’s Images of the World a...
Berlin hardware startup Skysense launches drone range
Ben Fisher
15 Dec 2014
Skysense is a Berlin-based start up designing and manufacturing a range of products to enable the remote operation of drones. Their first two products are the Skysense Charging pad and Skysense Hanga...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: Weekly Roundup 12/8
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In 2007, Addie Wagenknecht started using drones to make abstract paintings. Her works both challenge and celebrate the aerial robot and its power. In an in-...
GoPro to start making drones
Ben Fisher
04 Dec 2014
[tweetquote]GoPro is to start making its own line of drones and have them ready for release as early as Christmas 2015.[/tweetquote] Early indications of price point range from $500 to $1,000 for the ...
Snapshot of US UAV situation
Andra Keay
25 Sep 2014
The impact on businesses of the ongoing US ban on commercial UAV operation can be seen in a snapshot of this week’s drone news. Drones are very affordable these days, and there is nothing to stop an...
DJI DropSafe System
Dronologista
31 Jul 2014
One of the main concerns about UAV, apart from privacy, is their safety. No one really wants to have a flying lawnmower falling from the sky, or buzzing near passenger aircraft. As drones become more ...
The thriving drone community of South Africa
Dronologista
30 Jun 2014
Source: Skylab Productions
A couple of years ago, while I was living in Cape Town, I met a group of people who were so into drones and aerial filming that they managed to initiate me into the world ...
Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo recap
Frank Tobe
29 May 2014
"sUSB Expo 2014 showed signs of a maturing drone industry," said Antoine Martin of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Consulting.
The sold-out 2nd annual sUSB Expo 2014, held in San Francisco earlier this ...
Livestream: Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo 2014
Robohub Editors
08 May 2014
Watch the live stream from the second sUSB-Expo in San Francisco. Speakers include Henri Seydoux of Parrot Drone, Wolfgang Juchmann of Velodyne LiDAR, Rory Paul of Volt Aerial Robotics, Chris Ande...
ECA Group acquires UAV copter maker Infotron for $10 million
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
Groupe Gorgé, via their subsidiary ECA S.A., has acquired French UAV copter provider Infotron for €2.5 million and 375,000 shares of ECA - a combined value of around $10 million. The acquisition s...
