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3D Robotics presents SOLO, their most consumer oriented drone yet
Following a Kubrick's 2001 lookalike teaser video, 3D Robotics (3DR) presented their most ambitious product yet, ‘SOLO’ - an advanced quadcopter that above all focuses on ease of use and hassle-fr...
15 April 2015, by
Ioannis K. Erripis
Amazon Prime Air gets an updated FAA exemption
In a 9-page legal letter, with 28 itemized conditions and limitations, the FAA issued an exemption to Amazon to enable Prime Air to test in US airspace....
13 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/13/15
As the FAA grants more and more exemptions for the commercial use of drones, the immediate future of the domestic drone industry is beginning to take shape. We combed through the FAA’s drone exempti...
13 April 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
10 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 4/6/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The National Air and Space Museum recently took possession of a rather special drone: the Center for the Study of the Drone’s very own Phantom I quadcopte...
06 April 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
As drone use flourishes, the FAA waivers, and Amazon is forced offshore
Funding continues to flow to drone ventures worldwide even as news from the FAA suggests it will be many years before true autonomous flight will be allowed in the US. Meanwhile Amazon feels they mus...
31 March 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Matternet launches drone delivery platform
I often speak about deliverbots — the potential for ground-based delivery robots. There is also excitement about drone (UAV/quadcopter) based delivery. We’ve seen many proposed projects, including...
31 March 2015, by
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/30/15
Drone delivery, Senate hearing, law enforcement drones and many more stories. Read all the drone related news from last week on the Drone Center's Weekly roundup....
30 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS
When a drone flies close to a building, it can temporarily lose its GPS signal and position information, possibly leading to a crash. To ensure safety, a fall-back system is needed to help the quadro...
30 March 2015, by
Matthias Fässler, Flavio Fontana, Elias Müggler, Christian Forster and Davide Scaramuzza
Europe agrees on regulatory drone framework to move industry forward
There is not a week that goes by where regulation isn't a hot topic when it comes to drones. But for any regulated industry where technology is advancing greater than new rules can be agreed upon, it...
28 March 2015, by
Ben Fisher
3D Robotics launches app development kit ‘DroneKit’
3D Robotics has unveiled DroneKit, an open-source development kit for app development. This is a clear invite for the wider development community to build upon 3DR's flight control software....
26 March 2015, by
Ben Fisher
Google scraps initial ‘Project Wing’ plans for new secret design
The head of Google's moonshot lab Google X has recently announced they have scrapped the initial 'Project Wing' design that they have been testing in Australia. According to X lab Director Astro Te...
25 March 2015, by
Ben Fisher
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone offers a scathing critique of the use of military drones. But rather than approach the issue from a policy or s...
23 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
FAA exemption permits drones for oil and gas inspections
Sky-Futures, a UK-based company offering drone inspection services to the global oil and gas industry, through their Houston office, was awarded an FAA exemption allowing their drones to fly in US air...
17 March 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Does your drone have a ‘remote’? Canada’s definition of autonomous operations is a scene out of Chappie
Chappie, the new robo-film on the block, takes place in Johannesburg, where the police force is made up of robots. In one of the early scenes, the main characters, Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yolandi t...
16 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/16/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, senior U.S. government officials told the public that Saddam Hussein’s military was developing s...
16 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/9/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
In late February, the Obama administration announced that it would ease long-standing restrictions on the sale of U.S. armed drones to foreign nations. The ...
09 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Canada’s approach to risk management for nighttime drone flights
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) limits SUAS operations to daylight hours. The FAA concedes that the restriction on nighttime flights may neg...
03 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/2/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
As a Department of Homeland Security shutdown started to look increasingly likely, we wondered what that would mean for the Customs and Border Protection’...
02 March 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
How Canada handles beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) proposes to restrict operations that are completed beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS). However, the FAA has...
02 March 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
The $50 million Series C funding, mainly from Qualcomm, provides the basis for a tacit partnership between Qualcomm and 3D Robotics with a goal of leveraging the pace of innovation in the smartphone i...
28 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/23/15
At the Center for the Study of the Drone
The FAA’s proposed drones rules are only a draft of the final regulations. The FAA still has questions about how to best integrate commercial drones into ...
23 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
FAA regulations draw inspiration from Canada, but miss key aspect
Various aspects of the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations that were released by the FAA draw inspiration from Canada’s approach to regulation. In fact, the FAA provides a handy compar...
19 February 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
Summary of the FAA’s proposed drone regulations
This past Sunday the FAA held a conference call to announce its highly anticipated small UAS (sUAS) regulations. Sunday morning might strike as odd timing, however it’s likely that the timing had t...
19 February 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/16/15
The Federal Aviation Administration has released its proposed rules for the domestic, non-recreational use of drones weighing less than 55 lbs. USA President Obama issued a memorandum that outlines ne...
16 February 2015, by
Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College
Small UAV coalition applauds the FAA’s release of the proposed suas rule as a good first step for industry
The Small UAV Coalition is very pleased the FAA has at long last published its proposed small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) rule. At this time the proposed rule has not been made available to the pub...
15 February 2015, by
the Small UAV Coaltion
Possible Leaked FAA Document Provides Hints Regarding Proposed Rulemaking for sUAS
A new document purporting to be prepared by the FAA Office of Aviation Policy and Plans provides hints regarding the anticipated proposed small UAS (sUAS) regulations. The possible leaked document is ...
15 February 2015, by
Diana Marina Cooper
From sideshow to main event, drones are making their mark in entertainment
[tweetquote]What do you get when you cross hundreds of drones with an indoor football stadium equipped with GPS?[/tweetquote] Quite possibly the world's largest drone entertainment show the world has ...
12 February 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Americans okay with police drones, worried about private UAVs | Sputnik
A new poll shows surprising opinions about the domestic use of small drones. Who should be allowd to fly them, where, and for what purpose? According to the results, Americans may be more trusting of ...
11 February 2015, by
CIS Blog
3D Robotics announces ‘Tower’ to open-source community
3D Robotics, the largest drone manufacturer in the United States, has announced its latest version of the Flight Controller App 'Tower' to the open-source community. Tower acts as a powerful ground co...
11 February 2015, by
Ben Fisher
