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The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/30/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
This fall season has been a busy one for the drone industry, and, for some a very lucrative one. The past few months have seen a spike in the sale of milita...
Drone registration Task Force makes 11 key recommendations
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2015
After the Task Force agreed that it was outside the scope of their objectives to debate or discuss the DOT Secretary’s decision to require registration, they undertook to develop and recommend a re...
Drones light up the sky with animated letters & shapes in award-winning video
Hallie Siegel
20 Nov 2015
Check out this great little film by drone startup PRENAV, which took home the LOL WTF prize at the Flying Robot International Film Festival last night. According to Nathan Schuett, CEO of PRENAV, the...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
By now, we are well-acquainted with drones that fly, crawl, and sail, but what about drones that plumb the depths of the ocean, scouring the seas ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
We have updated our database of companies currently operating drones within the U.S. In this latest update, we discuss a growing trend in companies that...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Lisa Ellman knows a thing or two about the challenges of regulating domestic drones use. During a three-year stint at the White House, she served as a princ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/26/15
A Message from the Center for the Study of the Drone
The Center for the Study of the Drone was founded in 2012 to create original, inquiry-driven content and resources that help the public and poli...
RoboBees take to the sky – and now the sea
Wyss Institute
24 Oct 2015
By Leah Burrows | SEAS Communications
Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirem...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/19/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
While drones and targeted killing have received almost no attention so far in the presidential elections, it is an issue in which the next commander-in-chie...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/12/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The MQ-9 Reaper is perhaps the most famous military drone in history. While many will immediately recognize its distinctive shape, few outside the Pentagon ...
Courtship of the drone fireflies: A short movie with flying robots and lights
Adrien Briod
08 Oct 2015
Drones, lights and nature combine in Drone Courtship, a short movie about a magical encounter between two flying robots set in a forest of centennial trees. A collaboration between Atelier D. Schlae...
Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/5/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Unmanned aircraft have already revolutionized war and commerce, but now a new breed of ultra-high-altitude aircraft capable of remaining airborne for extens...
Key take-aways from the DroneApps Forum
Markus Waibel
02 Oct 2015
The first DroneApps Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland, recently assembled 150 drone professionals from Europe, the US, Japan, and Australia for a two-day exchange of ideas. What set the event apart was ...
Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo
Open Source Robotics Foundation
23 Sep 2015
The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/21/15
Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a drone bill that, if enacted, would have placed greater restrictions on drone use than any other piece of state legislation. The story of S....
1,407 FAA exemptions for UAS
Frank Tobe
21 Sep 2015
In May 2014, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began accepting petitions for exemptions to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) commercially in civilian airspace. As of 1 September 2015,...
Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on
Hallie Siegel
18 Sep 2015
[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...
Tweets from #DroneApps
Robohub Editors
14 Sep 2015
DroneApps is a two-day forum for executives in charge of planning and leading the commercial use of drones in companies looking to increase productivity, reduce risks and conquer new markets, taking ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/14/15
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We have continued our analysis of hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration’s reports of near misses involving drones and manned aircraft. Among other things, we discovered that inciden...
Video: Qualcomm demos Snapdragon Flight for smaller, lighter camera drones
Hallie Siegel
10 Sep 2015
The Snapdragon Flight developer platform had its first public demo today at Qualcomm's Robotics Accelerator event, Techstars Demo Day. Designed specifically for the consumer drone market, Snapdragon F...
First champion crowned for FPV drone racing UK nationals
David Stock
09 Sep 2015
James Bowles has been crowned UK champion following the first UK FPV drone racing national event organised by the British FPV drone racing association. The event was held at RAF Barkston Heath near G...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/7/15
From comedy to car commercials, drones have provoked a frenzy of popular media portrayals that are equal parts funny, hyperbolic, and disturbing. We take a closer look at these representations in orde...
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Fotokite Phi, with Sergei Lupashin
Audrow Nash
04 Sep 2015
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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Sergei Lupashin about Perspective Robotics' tethered flying camera, the Fotokite Phi, which is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. Th...
Price wars: Counting the cost of drones, planes and satellites
Edd Gent
03 Sep 2015
One of the main advantages of drone-based imaging touted by both manufacturers and service providers is its low cost compared to competing technologies like airplanes and satellites. But a simple Inte...
California drone bill misses the mark
Diana Marina Cooper
01 Sep 2015
Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/31/15
The U.S. National Guard operates a substantial—and strategically critical—fleet of Predator and Reaper drones in America’s wars. Now, the service is taking steps to bring those drones home for u...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/24/15
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600 incidents in which drones interfered with the national airspace and, in some cases, came close to colliding with manned a...
Fotokite Phi GoPro-carrying quadcopter: Friendly, compact, light and affordable
Fotokite
19 Aug 2015
Zurich-based robotics company Perspective Robotics this week unveils Fotokite Phi, their first consumer targeted, affordable, accessible, tethered flying camera. The Fotokite Phi is available now for ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/17/15
Like many other regions of the world, Southeast Asia has been experiencing something of a drone boom. Hobbyists and professionals are becoming airborne in increasingly large numbers, militaries are vy...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/10/15
Even though it is less than a year old, the regulated domestic commercial drone industry has already spread across the entire United States. We have created a series of maps in order to better underst...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/3/15
While drones have received the lion’s share of attention from among US tools in the War on Terror, Special Operations Forces are growing in reach and importance. We explore how Special Ops and dro...
Is all the hype about drone commercialization clouding our judgement?
Robert Morris
28 Jul 2015
The hype around the consumer drone industry is so thick that it clouds our judgement. It is as if our biggest boosters have forgotten what our technology stack really does, what it doesn’t do, and ...
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
Ben Fisher
21 Jul 2015
When we say drone, we ofter think of the flying platform. But that's just half the story. Drones are amazing flying tools because of their ability to position sensing payloads in the sky. Most operato...
