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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/31/17
A U.S. Army soldier launches an RQ-11 Raven during an exercise in North Carolina on July 27. Credit: Staff Sgt. Andrew Lee/U.S. Air Force
July 24, 2017 – July 30, 2017
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31 July 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/24/17
July 17, 2017 – July 23, 2017
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News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan is reported...
24 July 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Robots to the rescue!
This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website.
Rapid advances in technology are revolutionizing the roles of aerial, terrestrial and maritime robotic systems in disaster relief, search...
19 July 2017, by
Peter Feuilherade
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/17/17
The South Korean Navy conducted shipboard flight tests for the TR-60 tilt-rotor UAV. Source: KARI
July 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017
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18 July 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Singapore: An autonomous innovation center
Jim Robinson of RRE Ventures said it best last month at the Silicon Dragon Conference when comparing Silicon Valley to New York, “There are two kinds of centers that have a lot of startups and t...
16 July 2017, by
Oliver Mitchell
Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
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14 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/10/17
The U.S. Army is developing a drone that moves like a flying squirrel. Credit: David McNally/U.S. Army
News
A U.S. drone strike in Somalia targeted members of al-Shabab. It is the second drone...
11 July 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Swarms of smart drones to revolutionise how we watch sports
by Joe Dodgshun
Drone innovators are transforming the way we watch events, from football matches and boat races to music festivals....
11 July 2017, by
Horizon Magazine
UAV-based crop and weed classification for future farming
Crops are key for a sustainable food production and we face several challenges in crop production. First, we need to feed a growing world population. Second, our society demands high-quality foods. Th...
28 June 2017, by
Philipp Lottes, Raghav Khanna, Johannes Pfeifer, Cyrill Stachniss and Roland Siegwart
Drones that drive
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature - many birds, insects and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibiliti...
27 June 2017, by
CSAIL MIT
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/24/17
June 19, 2017 – June 25, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In an interview with Robotics Tomorrow, Center for the Study of the Drone Co-Director Arthur Holland Michel discusses t...
26 June 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
CARNAC program researching autonomous co-piloting
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is researching autonomous co-piloting so they can fly without a human pilot on board. The robotic system — called the Common Aircraft Retrofit f...
26 June 2017, by
Frank Tobe
More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
23 June 2017, by
Jonathan Downey
Thought leadership in social sector robotics
WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
20 June 2017, by
Patrick Meier
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/19/17
June 12, 2017 – June 18, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen reportedly killed two individuals suspected of being members of al-Qaeda. The strike targeted a vehicle in Shabwa province, one ...
19 June 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
How to reduce Zika using flying robots
Mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal on the planet and conventional methods to reduce mosquito-borne illnesses haven’t worked as well as many hoped. So we’ve been hard at wo...
15 June 2017, by
Patrick Meier
Indoor show drones make history on Broadway
Over the past year, 398 audiences of up to 2,000 people witnessed an octet of colorful lampshades perform an airborne choreography during Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway show Paramour, which ran until ...
14 June 2017, by
Christian Hoffmann
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/12/17
June 5, 2017 – June 11, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
At Washington D.C.’s WTOP radio, Center for the Study of the Drone co-director Dan Gettinger discusses the growing use...
12 June 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Engineers design drones that can stay aloft for five days
In the event of a natural disaster that disrupts phone and Internet systems over a wide area, autonomous aircraft could potentially hover over affected regions, carrying communications payloads that p...
09 June 2017, by
MIT News
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17
May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017
News
A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...
05 June 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Faster, more nimble drones on the horizon
There’s a limit to how fast autonomous vehicles can fly while safely avoiding obstacles. That’s because the cameras used on today’s drones can only process images so fast, frame by individual fr...
31 May 2017, by
MIT News
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/29/17
May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017
News
A U.S. drone strike reportedly killed three members of the Pakistani Taliban. According to the Associated Press, the strike targeted a compound in Khost provi...
30 May 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Xponential 2017 in images
The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
25 May 2017, by
The National Robotics Education Foundation
Dutch start-up launches next generation mapping drone
Drone company Atmos UAV has launched Marlyn, a lightweight drone which flies automatically, effortlessly and at high wind speeds. One of the first customers that signed up is Skeye, Europe’s leadin...
23 May 2017, by
RoboValley
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/22/17
News
A U.S. Court of Appeals has struck down the Federal Aviation Administration’s drone registration requirement for recreational operators. The federal court ruled that the registration system ...
22 May 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/15/17
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 (EODMU5) Platoon 142 recover an unmanned underwater vehicle onto a Coastal Riverine Group 1 Detachment Guam MK VI patrol boat in the Pacif...
16 May 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Drones land back to Earth at Xponential 2017
JD Claridge’s story epitomizes the current state of the drone industry. Claridge, founder of xCraft, is best known for being the first contestant on Shark Tank to receive money from all the Shark...
15 May 2017, by
Oliver Mitchell
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup 5/8/17
May 1, 2017 – May 7, 2017
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News
The European Aviation Safety Association has propo...
08 May 2017, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
As DJI dominates camera and commercial drone sales, drone funding falls
According to AgFunder's 2016 AgTech Investing Report (supported by The Robot Report's own research), 2016 drone funding fell 64% from 2015 levels. Also, the type of companies getting funded were sens...
03 May 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Cooperative payload transportation with UAVs
Delivery robots are touted as gaining widespread popularity in the near future. Wheeled models could be suitable for urban areas, while UAVs have great potential in accessing difficult areas and carr...
27 April 2017, by
Julian Estevez
