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Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...
17 November 2014, by
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
UN discusses humanitarian uses of drones
At a recent meeting at the United Nations, UN and UNICEF officials met with NGOs including Red Cross, food and peacekeeping groups, to discuss setting up a network of humanitarian uses for drones and...
17 November 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Transport Canada relaxes commercial drone regulations, increases focus on academic use
Last week, Transport Canada announced upcoming changes to the regulatory framework surrounding drones. Transport Canada’s exemption notification simultaneously signals a relaxation of commercial dro...
10 November 2014, by
Diana Marina Cooper
Skyward announces first commercial drone network demonstration | SUAS News
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SkyWard, a leading software platform for the aerial robotics ecosystem, today announced the Urban SkyWays Project, the first end-to-end demonstration of a commercial dron...
28 October 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Drones For Good Award announces semi-finalists
The semi-finalists of the UAE Drones For Good award have been announced. Here is a highlight of the international contenders; you can find the full list of semi-finalists on the UAE Drones For Good...
21 October 2014, by
Dronologista
Drone startups: Anura pocket drone
Miniature drones are becoming very popular, and one of the first successful miniature drone designs was The Pocket Drone. A remarkable Kickstarter campaign for this project raised almost $1M, while ...
09 October 2014, by
Dronologista
Commercial drone regulations: Canada vs. US
When Canadians attempt to characterize aspects of Canadian culture, it’s not uncommon to draw comparisons with the US. I recently noticed that as I respond to questions about the Canadian regulation...
29 September 2014, by
Diana Marina Cooper
Snapshot of US UAV situation
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...
25 September 2014, by
Andra Keay
Quadrotors vs CGI: A Q&A with the makers of Sparked
If you thought "SPARKED" - the new short film by Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios - is too real-looking to be CGI, you were right. But why go to all the trouble of using quadrotors to ...
24 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
DHL UAS parcel delivery gets first test
DHL launches first authorized autonomous delivery flights by "parcelcopter" to and from the North Sea island of Juist, 7.5 miles off the coast of Northern Germany....
24 September 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Delivery by drone: DHL testing service with 12-kilometre flight to German island | CTV News
Deutsche Post DHL says it is starting Germany's first drone package delivery service, a test program transporting medicine to a pharmacy on a North Sea island. The company said the quad-rotor "DHL Pa...
24 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
A radical but possible plan to connect African nations with cargo drones | WIRED
In Phase 1, starting in 2016, drones will serve hospitals and humanitarian emergencies. Other early adopters will deliver small payloads to government offices, mines, oil and gas installations, ranche...
22 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
New quadrocopter video points to a future for flying machines in entertainment
We've seen robots on stage before: Humanoids have been featured in theater productions in Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, and industrial robots have played parts in dance performances and other stage...
22 September 2014, by
Markus Waibel
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AirDog, with Edgars Rozentals
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edgars Rozentals, the CEO and Founder of Helico Aerospace Industries. They talk about Helico’s upcoming product ‘AirDog’, which is an autonomo...
21 September 2014, by
Audrow Nash
PrecisionHawk raises $10M
According to a press release from today:
PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today...
18 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
“Drone Art” – an excerpt from The Drone Primer
This is an excerpt from The Drone Primer: A Compendium of the Key Issues, a free, one-stop, handbook addressing the basic and fundamental questions around drones in all their contexts, from foreign th...
12 September 2014, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
UAV Surveys Argyle Diamond Mine in Australian | Aibotix
According to a press release:
East Kimberly Region, Australia / Kassel, Germany, September 4, 2014 – CADS Survey, an Australian supplier of marine, pipeline, and civil surveying services, C.R.Ken...
04 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Google’s secret drone delivery program
The Atlantic revealed the inside story of Google's two-year secret X-labs drone-delivery project in a detailed story by Alexis Madrigal. Project Wing, as the drone-delivery venture is called, has alre...
29 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program “project wing” | the Atlantic
After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city...
28 August 2014, by
Ioannis K. Erripis
New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News
In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting ...
28 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Spark Aerial: Your aerial cinematography flight school
The proliferation of UAVs means that there is a growing number of UAV operators. Sometimes these operators have some experience, but in most of the cases they have none. To make things worse, nowadays...
28 August 2014, by
Dronologista
The flixels are coming! The flixels are coming!
The Orlando Sentinel reported that the [tweetquote]Walt Disney Company filed for three patents involving flying entertainment robots[/tweetquote], a growing segment in the emerging service robotics in...
28 August 2014, by
Frank Tobe
Like Amazon, these 9 companies need their own drones
Superman tribute notwithstanding, contemporary commercial interests like Amazon are fascinated with the potential of drones. These cost-effective, utilitarian machines deliver data, products and recon...
26 August 2014, by
Robert Corday
Does the Small UAV industry need its own coalition?
Last week USA Today reported that Amazon, 3D Robotics, Parrot and DJI had banded together to form a "Small UAV Coalition", hiring DC-based lobbying firm Akin Gump to represent their interests...
22 August 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Coordinated UAV docking
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience.
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be both safe and maneuverable, but their s...
18 August 2014, by
Autonomous Robots Blog
DJI Spreading Wings S900
DJI Innovations keeps pushing new products into the market. As a market leader in flying camera technology, it recently introduced Ground Station for its Phantom 2 Vision and the Drop Safe parachut...
15 August 2014, by
Dronologista
VertiKUL takes off like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing aircraft
One of the main disadvantages of copter drones is their low energy efficiency: in order to create and maintain a sufficient lift, a lot of energy is needed, thus decreasing the endurance of the UAV. T...
05 August 2014, by
Dronologista
DJI DropSafe System
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 ...
31 July 2014, by
Dronologista
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...
30 July 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Drone Startups: Maps Made Easy
Aerial mapping can be quite time-consuming and expensive. Even if you are employing a UAV to do it, it might take hours for all the post-processing, time-stamp shifting and deleting blurred photos. An...
30 July 2014, by
Dronologista
