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    Maps & apps
    Image: senseFly ... Two events, from different parts of the world, on the same day and subject: geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) and the use of “layering”...
    08 October 2013, by

    3D Robotics gets $30 million to mainstream aerial robotics
    ... 3D Robotics, the open source unmanned aerial vehicle company headed by Chris Anderson, just got a $30 million infusion of venture funding to enable the company to “mainstream aerial robotics and...
    27 September 2013, by

    Drones for Schools
    To understand what the Drones for Schools program is, and how it came about, it helps to know a few things about my background. I didn't originally set out to be a STEM educator. I had some science ed...
    24 September 2013, by

    Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
    A town called Deer Trail, located an hour east of Denver, Colo., is considering issuing a novel kind of hunting permit. If passed, the town would give residents licenses to "kill" drones ... by shooti...
    21 August 2013, by

    The right way to regulate drone privacy
    On August 6th, I had the honor of testifying in front of the California State Assembly Public Safety Committee on regulation of drones, by the state of California.  The committee is considering seve...
    19 August 2013, by

    Videos of presentations at Ryerson University symposium on UAVs
    On June 30th of this year, Ryerson University in Toronto held an event titled UAVs: Pros vs Cons Symposium. Some of the presentations have since been incorporated into a YouTube playlist by Nikola Dan...
    11 August 2013, by



    Drone Journalism, with Matthew Schroyer

    Link to audio file (41:02)In this episode, we speak with Matthew Schroyer, founder of DroneJournalism.org, co-founder of Drones for Good, and developer of the “Drones for Schools” program which te...
    09 August 2013, by

    Delivered by drones: Are Tacocopters and Burrito Bombers the next Pony Express? | Slate
    The drones are coming! The drones are coming! But this time they’re not armed with hellfire missiles. These drones are packing a new kind of heat: steaming pizzas, fresh tacos, and cold beer. ...
    06 August 2013, by

    Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US
    Insitu's Scan Eagle x200. Two small drones, Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA, have become the first federally certified unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for civilian use in the US. O...
    27 July 2013, by

    SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
    SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
    27 July 2013, by

    Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain
    The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...
    26 July 2013, by and

    Research Days: Multi-UAV systems
    Autonomously flying robots — also called small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — are more and more exploited in civil and commercial applications for monitoring, surveillance, and disaster r...
    17 July 2013, by and

    Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Handling feedback
    This is the third tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Learn about the AR.Drone's state feedback (and how it is handled by ROS) Learn a...
    01 July 2013, by

    The Distributed Flight Array: Modular robots that self-assemble, coordinate and take flight
    "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" — a catch phrase that aptly expresses the Distributed Flight Array: a modular robot consisting of hexagonal-shaped single-rotor units that can take ...
    12 June 2013, by

    Audio interviews about the controlled flight of insect robots, with Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon and Sawyer Fuller

    Link to audio file (25:02)In this episode we hear from researchers at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about the Science paper published today reporting on the first controlled flight of an insect-sized ...
    03 May 2013, by

    Parrot AR.Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft
    Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.Drone and a scientific crowd-sourcing experiment that aims to improve landing, obstacle avoidance and docking capabilities in autonomous spac...
    26 March 2013, by

    Quadcopters advertising new Star Trek movie
    A squadron of 30 LED-studded Ascending Technologies quadcopters hovered above Potters Fields Park near London’s Tower Bridge and, in conjunction with Earth Hour, formed a three-dimensional Star Trek...
    24 March 2013, by

    Active military robots around the world
    This is a brief presentation of some of the most widely used robots (or remotely controlled, semi-autonomous systems) from militaries around the world. There are numerous other projects that are curre...
    15 March 2013, by

    Flying insects and robots
    TED just released an excellent talk by Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington about how flies fly....
    24 February 2013, by

    Video: Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum – with quadrocopters
    Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and juggling balls. My colleagues at ETH Zurich's Flying Machine Arena have now combined the t...
    21 February 2013, by

    Surrounded by his quadrocopter drones on stage, Raffaello D’Andrea explains feedback control and talks about the coming Machine Revolution
    During the 20 minute presentation, Raffaello D'Andrea revealed some of the key concepts behind his group's impressive demonstrations of quadrocopters juggling, throwing and catching balls, dancing, an...
    04 February 2013, by

    Quadrocopter Drones from China
    The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world´s first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera  Technology Co., Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R/C model t...
    22 January 2013, by

    Swedish UAV ready for lift-off
    In December 2012, Swedish CybAero AB,  a company developing and manufacturing autonomous unmanned helicopters, signed a strategic partnership agreement with the world's leading UAV company, Aer...
    10 January 2013, by

    Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Joystick control
    This is the second tutorial in the Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS series. In this tutorial we will: Talk about the ROS communication hierarchy Setup a joystick to work with ROS ...
    04 January 2013, by

    Up and flying with the AR.Drone and ROS: Getting started
    Updated December 17th. In this tutorial (#1) we will: Install ROS, the AR.Drone driver and AR.Drone keyboard controller Fly the AR.Drone using the provided keyboard controller...
    10 December 2012, by

    The nEUROn maiden flight
    On December 1st, the nEUROn, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) stealth technology demonstrator, successfully completed its maiden flight from the Dassault Aviation company’s flight test ...
    05 December 2012, by

    Prioria Maverick, flexible wing UAS
    Maverick is a small uav made by Prioria, a company founded in 2003 by business and engineering graduates from the University of Florida. It is portable, very light and has most of the features a comme...
    30 May 2011, by

    Global Hawks in the crowded Mediterranean airspace
    The use of UAVs has skyrocketed, a wide variety of systems ranging from extremely small flying bots to large airframes like the Predators or Global Hawk drones is currently in use, mostly from armed ...
    24 March 2011, by

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