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    Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm: Recovery after propeller loss
    UPDATE 04/03/2014: In this video update, we show that a quadrocopter can be safely piloted by hand after a motor fails, without the aid of a motion capture system. This follows our previous video, ...
    04 March 2014, by

    Journalist sues police who questioned drone use | ABC News
    A journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Hartford police officers violated his free-speech rights by questioning his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck. Pedr...
    25 February 2014, by

    Drone journalism: Is Canada ready? | CBC’s The Current
    Drones are going from making the news for deadly aerial bombings to gathering the news - aerial vehicles equipped with cameras have flown over disasters - in the pursuit of a story. Today, we hear fro...
    25 February 2014, by

    Hexagon acquires Aibotix
        Hexagon, a Swedish provider of R&D and design, measurement and visualization products, with 14,000 employees in over 40 countries, and which serves a broad range of industr...
    18 February 2014, by

    Why drones are the future of sports photography | The Atlantic
    They're already at the Olympics. Soon, they'll be at the football stadium.   Drones are being used to film ski and snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, as you may have noti...
    18 February 2014, by

    Will companies like Google and Amazon usher in a new era for robotics?
    Amazon announced its plans to launch a new drone delivery service this past December.   Recent eye-popping acquisitions of robotics technology companies by giants like Google and Amazon might sugge...
    18 February 2014, by



    Lockheed and AeroVironment to jointly develop UAS
    AeroVironment (of Raven, Puma and Wasp fame) has a high-altitude long-endurance UAV named Global Observer. It flies at 65,000’ for a week or more at a time, has up to a 600-mile diameter fo...
    16 February 2014, by

    Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award
    The Drone Social Innovation Award is a new initiative of the rapidly growing Drone User Group Network (DUGN). With over 3000 members across North America, Australia and Europe, DUGN is the largest com...
    11 February 2014, by

    A discussion on deploying drones for international development
    Last month, Deutsche Post DHL transported six kilograms of medicine from a pharmacy in Bonn, across the Rhine River, to its headquarters. This wouldn't have made international news, except that DHL a...
    16 January 2014, by

    Snap 2014: Aerial drones and 3D mapping software for civil engineering surveying
    An Irish surveyor tested results (and had those results peer reviewed through the local university) of surveys done by drone and software vs. doing it by hand (which took days longer). The surveyor is...
    06 January 2014, by

    Robot Holiday Video 2013: Ascending Technologies
    From the Ascending Technologies team: Can you imagine drones delivering X-mas presents? We can – with a smile....
    18 December 2013, by

    Fully autonomous flapping-wing micro air vehicle weighs about as much as 4 sheets of A4 paper
    The DelFly Explorer, a flapping wing MAV equipped with a 4-gram stereo vision system that can fly completely by itself in unknown, cluttered environments. © Delft University of Technology. The DelFl...
    16 December 2013, by

    AJung Moon on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”
    2013 was a year filled with talk of drones. I’m not saying this just because I’m biased by the recent news reporting on how large companies (Amazon, DHL, and UPS to be exact) are exploring t...
    11 December 2013, by

    Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots
    ... Amazon isn’t the only delivery service testing flying robots. DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places, eg, medicines to...
    10 December 2013, by

    Unmasking the RQ-180 | Ares blog
    The Air Force has long debated how to conduct penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions since the venerable, high-speed SR-71 retired in 1998. But despite the need and a linge...
    06 December 2013, by

    Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg
    On Sunday, Charlie Rose from CBS News 60 Minutes, interviewed Jeff Bezos about what is next for Amazon, the world's largest online retailer with more than 225 million customers. Volume can reach 30...
    05 December 2013, by

    Amazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME
    Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general… Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com...
    02 December 2013, by

    Amazon’s Jeff Bezos looks to the future | 60 Minutes
    There has never been a company quite like Amazon. Conceived as an online book seller, Amazon has reinvented itself time and again, changing the way the world shops, reads and computes. Amazon has 225 ...
    02 December 2013, by

    Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real? | Automaton
    Once you get past the wow factor [of Amazon's drone delivery announcement] and start thinking critically about what it would take to make something like this work in practice, it starts to look a lot...
    02 December 2013, by

    Three new quadrotor videos demonstrate agile control and the power of machine learning
    Quadrocopters assembling tensile structures in the ETH Flying Machine Arena. Photo credit: Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication and the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH...
    18 November 2013, by

    VIDEO Flying robots perform amazing acrobatics | CNN
    Professor Raffaello d'Andrea has created a series of complex algorithms allowing airborne robots to perform acrobatics.   Watch the video on CNN...
    12 November 2013, by

    UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
    Did you know that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion people to more than nine billion in the next 40 years? In order to meet this growing demand, agricultural producers wil...
    12 November 2013, by

    How drones will change your life | CNN
    While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to co...
    11 November 2013, by

    Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t
    Gimball is a flying robot that survives collisions. It weighs just 370g for 34cm in diameter. Photo credit: A. Herzog, EPFL. Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far ...
    30 October 2013, by

    Down on the farm with drones
    Photo credit: Patrick Egan. There are bushels of folks out there now spending money and putting time in finding niches for unmanned systems that already exist. You may be saying, isn’t that what we...
    29 October 2013, by

    Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture
    Yamaha is testing spraying vineyards in Napa Valley through a COA with the FAA. Photo courtesy Yamaha Corp. With the global market for unmanned systems in agriculture on the rise, companies that ma...
    25 October 2013, by

    Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture
    ‘Drones in agriculture’ has been a topic hot lately, but is it a real business? As a former Army UAV platoon leader and a current founder of an aerial data collection start-up, I believe so, bu...
    24 October 2013, by

    DARC talks about the elephants in the room – freight planes and fighters
    It was fitting that Missy Cummings had the last word at the DARC drones and aerial robotics conference in NY. As an ex-TopGun navy pilot who saw drones taking over her job, she was the one to talk abo...
    23 October 2013, by

    Ten lessons for farm drones
    3D Robotics's Vice President of Sales and Marketing John Cherbini prepares to launch a plane at Small Vines Wines in Sebastopol, Ca Sept. 13, 2013. The plane can help day-to-day operations on a farm...
    22 October 2013, by

    Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
    With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...
    18 October 2013, by

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