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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...
10 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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...
03 August 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Is all the hype about drone commercialization clouding our judgement?
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 ...
28 July 2015, by
Robert Morris
Tiny 4K Z camera could be the perfect drone partner
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...
21 July 2015, by
Ben Fisher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/13/15
Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written numerous influential works on the internal dynami...
13 July 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Solar powered day/night autonomous flight achieved: Airborne for 28 hours without fuel!
The AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle took off on June 30th, 2015 at 11:14 o’clock to attempt the “holy grail” of solar-powered flight: the crossing of a full day-night cycle on solar power ...
09 July 2015, by
Philipp Oettershagen
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Until the FAA implements comprehensive regulations for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft in US skies, the only companies legally permitted to fly dron...
06 July 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/22/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In a recent report on China’s military capabilities, the Department of Defense told Congress that China will manufacture up to 42,000 military drones for ...
22 June 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/15/15
The Pentagon’s 1033 program, which transfers excess military equipment to domestic law enforcement, has resulted in the proliferation of unmanned ground vehicles in police departments across the cou...
15 June 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
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CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
12 June 2015, by
Audrow Nash
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/8/15
The House and Senate have released proposed Pentagon budget bills that differ in drone spending from Obama’s proposed budget in several key points. We analyzed these differences to glean how they re...
08 June 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
‘Tailsitter’ flying robot hovers and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm
In August 2014 Google [x] announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon's Prime Air. Called Project Wing, the system was based on a mechanically simple "t...
04 June 2015, by
Robin Ritz
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/1/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
On May 20, the U.S. government released 103 documents seized during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. The documents, which have been translated ...
01 June 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Transport Canada proposes amendments to sUAV regulations
On May 28th, Transport Canada released a Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) outlining proposed changes to the regulatory framework governing small UAVs. If adopted, the changes would take effect in 20...
01 June 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/25/15
“Good Kill,” an IFC Films production, explores the use of drones by the U.S. military and issues related to remote participation in war. We sat down with actor Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Nicc...
26 May 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Aerial Manipulation: Lecture by Bruno Siciliano
In this video lecture, Bruno Siciliano from PRISMA Lab at the University of Naples, Italy, walks us through advances in aerial manipulation with reference to three projects funded through the Europe...
26 May 2015, by
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/18/15
Earlier this month, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International hosted its annual Unmanned Systems 2015 conference, the world’s largest drone trade show. But what is AUVSI, what exact...
19 May 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/12/15
Last month, the U.S. Navy retired its two X-47B prototype unmanned combat drones. Known as Salty Dog 501 and Salty Dog 502, these remarkable aircraft are the most advanced and most autonomous drones e...
12 May 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Airware launches new system and gets funded
Airware received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, which now joins GE Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and a host of other prominent VCs in funding this au...
11 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Consumer and B2B drone making is big business
Lobbying for drone special interests rose from $35 million in 2011 to more than $186 million in 2014. But that is dwarfed by investments in drone makers such as DJI and 3DR, who just raised $75M and...
08 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Competition heats up for consumer-friendly aerial photography drones
Competition is fierce in the world of consumer drones these days, especially among companies marketing products than can produce pro quality video and photography without having to hire a drone ...
06 May 2015, by
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
Multiple tethered quadrotors performing high-g, high-speed formation maneuvers
This video shows tethered quadrocopters flying steadily together at high speeds exceeding 50 km/h in a confined space. With the tether exerting more than 13 gs of centripetal force, multiple quadro...
05 May 2015, by
Robohub Editors
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/4/15
While the most widely recognized military drones are fixed-wing designs like the Predator and Reaper, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) systems are becoming more widely used. What, exactly, are the ...
04 May 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
sUSB Expo 2015 Livestream
The sUSB is livestreaming from San Francisco, featuring top names in the unmanned and remote sensing field, including Patrick Egan, Chris Anderson, Whitney Brooks, Michael Drobac, and Andra Keay, a...
29 April 2015, by
Robohub Editors
Commercial drone market projected to grow 109% CAGR
Markets and Markets, a Dallas, TX research firm, in an 189-page $4,650 report, is projecting that the global commercial drones market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 109.3% and ...
27 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/27/15
Earlier this month, the United Nations held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical and legal implications of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The Meeting, which was attended by delegates...
27 April 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/20/15
Last week, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held a Meeting of Experts to discuss the ethical, legal, and humanitarian implications of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LA...
20 April 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
