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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/13/17
February 6, 2017 – February 12, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Loitering munitions are a proliferating class of drones that double as precision attack weapons. These systems, wh...
The art of drone flight: Creating drone costumes
Léa Pereyre
07 Feb 2017
Drone costume designer Léa Pereyre showcases several of her imaginative designs and describes her experience with dreaming up new concepts for this emerging art form.
Check out more designs on the...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/6/17
January 30, 2017 – February 5, 2017
News
Israel has reportedly eased export restrictions on military drones in order to boost the competitiveness of Israeli companies. According to an unnamed...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/30/17
January 23, 2017 – January 29, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
A growing number of countries around the world are developing or acquiring unmanned aircraft systems. Today, the Ce...
Flying cars are coming, what will they mean?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jan 2017
Earlier I posted my gallery of CES gadgets and included a photo of the eHang 184 from China, a “personal drone” able, in theory, to carry a person up to 100kg.
Whether the eHang is real or not...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/23/17
January 16, 2017 – January 22, 2017
News
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Yemen killed at least three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. According to local officials, both strike...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 1/16/17
January 9, 2017 – January 15, 2017
News
Popular French hobby drone maker Parrot laid off 290 out of 840 workers after posting growing losses in recent months. Parrot lost $27.8 million in the ...
Parrot struggling, Lily fails and Google closes Titan Project as drone industry disunites
Frank Tobe
13 Jan 2017
Toy and entertainment drones, camera drones for professional and business use, moon-shot drones and military drones are all becoming more and more distinct as much of the drone industry gets commodit...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/09/17
January 2, 2017 – January 8, 2017
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are delighted to announce that we are collaborating with the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 01/02/17
December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017
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Year in Review
2016 was many things to many p...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/19/16
December 12, 2016 – December 18, 2016
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A drone that flies (almost) like a bird
NCCR Robotics
16 Dec 2016
Bioinspired robots that take their designs from biology has been a big research area in recent years, but a team from NCCR Robotics, Floreano Lab have just gone one step further and designed a feat...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/12/16
December 5, 2016 – December 11, 2016
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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 12/5/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
Design, simulate and build a custom drone
CSAIL MIT
05 Dec 2016
This fall’s new FAA regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren’t exactly what you want?
A new system fro...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/28/16
The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....
Emerging patchwork of regulation of UAS operations near critical infrastructure
Diana Marina Cooper
22 Nov 2016
Over the last couple of years, we have seen an increase in state regulation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). A recent report published by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) titled “...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/21/16
November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In our ongoing effort to track drone deployments globally, we have made two new previously unreported discoveries...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/14/16
November 7, 2016 – November 13, 2016
News
President Obama has directed the Department of Defense to target the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syria-based organization that has been linked t...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/7/16
October 31, 2016 – November 6, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Haydar Kirkan, a senior member of al-Qaeda and former aide to Osama bin Laden. According to a Pentagon spokesperson...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/31/16
October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Last year, we posted one of our regular “Need to Know” cheat sheets about the growing field of underwater drone...
Protecting infrastructure and innovation, under Section 2209 of the FAA extension
Diana Marina Cooper
25 Oct 2016
On July 15, 2016, Congress enacted the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act (the “Act”), which among other things, directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a process to enable appli...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/24/16
October 17, 2016 – October 23, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In their perennial bid to better understand the weather, scientists are increasingly turning to drones, from high-a...
Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
Why DJI is succeeding in making and selling drones and 3DR didn’t
Frank Tobe
18 Oct 2016
It was clear that DJI was winning the drone commoditization war by the end of 2015. Today's best sellers are mostly DJI products. Other makers (Parrot, 3D Robotics, Autel, Yuneec et al) haven't been a...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/17/16
October 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The U.S. president plays a key role in determining the country’s counterterrorism policies, including the use of ...
Tree cavity inspection using drones
Mina Kamel and Kelly Steich
13 Oct 2016
The importance of conserving biodiversity in forest ecosystems is widely recognized. Tree cavities are home to many animal species, such as birds, mammals and beetles, for shelter, nesting or larval d...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/10/16
October 3, 2016 – October 9, 2016
News
A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Abu al-Farai al-Masri, an Egyptian-born veteran of al-Qaeda and leader of Jabhat al-Nusra. According to a statement b...
In motion: Video transmission by mobile drones
Christian Bettstetter
07 Oct 2016
Raheeb Muzaffar, an information technology specialist, has developed an application-layer framework that improves the transmission of videos between moving drones and mobile devices located at ground ...
Drone flight through narrow gaps using onboard sensing and computing
In this work, we address one of the main challenges towards autonomous drone flight in complex environments, which is flight through narrow gaps....
A drone with insect-inspired folding wings
NCCR Robotics
03 Oct 2016
When designing robots to help in the search for victims after a natural disaster, a number of features are important: robustness, long battery life and ease of transport. With this latest constraint i...
GoPro unveils long-awaited Karma stabilized drone system and kit
Frank Tobe
30 Sep 2016
GoPro fans and the financial world have been looking forward to GoPro's new Karma since GoPro announced last December that it was working on building its first drone. When they delayed the release ...
DelftAcopter: Innovative single-propeller hybrid drone
RoboValley
19 Sep 2016
By: Jurjen Slump
It takes off like a helicopter, then tilts 90 degrees and flies like a plane, using a single rotor blade. Because of that, it is light weight and can fly long distances. Meet the ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/19/16
September 12, 2016 – September 18, 2016
News
A U.S. airstrike in Syria reportedly killed Wael Adel Salman, the information minister for the Islamic State group. According to a U.S. official wh...
InterDrone 2016: Professionalization and business of drone industry
Frank Tobe
16 Sep 2016
InterDrone concluded their 2nd annual trade show and conference in Las Vegas. The differences between the 2015 event and this one reflect the rapid changes in the industry and can be seen as a predict...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/12/16
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We are a decade into what is often described as “the drone revolution,” a period of remarkable growth in the development, proliferation, and use of mili...
