DARPA plans to build a full-scale demonstrator system of a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system (UAS) designed to use forward-deployed…
December, 2015
Why Co-Bots Will Be a Huge Innovation and Growth Driver for Robotics Industry
Automaton Robotics Industrial Robots YuMi, a collaborative robot developed by ABB. This is a guest post. The views expressed here…
uAvionix and Trace’s Draganfly Innovations Team Up to Improve Drone Safety with Ping ADS-B Sense and Avoid
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. and SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Dec. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — uAvionix Corporation, the leader in aircraft sense and avoid,…
IdeaForge to raise $10m Series A funding
IdeaForge Technology Pvt. Ltd, the company which manufactures Netra unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used in the recent Nepal earthquake and…
International Drone Expo (IDE): FLYPRO Is Helping People
Visitors and journalists in front of FLYPRO UAV’s booth SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — North America’s largest exhibition…
Sensefly’s eBee aids in train derailment investigation
A UAS team from the University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Lab flew the eBee to gather data for investigators.
EPRI Holds First UAS Conference
The two-day conference brought UAS vendors and members of the utilities industry together to talk about the benefits of unmanned systems, and to collaborate on ways to move this application forward.
Chinese drones prove mettle in Tianjin disaster
By Fang Yan and Matthew Miller BEIJING (Reuters) – When an explosion devastated parts of China’s Tianjin port in August,…
Northrop Grumman set to develop tail-down UAV for DARPA’s Tern program
The competition to fulfil DARPA’s plan to turn US Navy destroyers and frigates into drone-launching aircraft carriers seems to be…
Three miles high: Using drones to study high-altitude glaciers
SAN FRANCISCO — While some dream of the day that aerial drones deliver their online purchases, scientists are using the…
The very first ‘droneport’ is coming
Reuters Aerodrome, a company that owns and operates teaching airports for commercial drones, has broken ground on the world’s first…
Developers unmanned “KAMAZ” offer to take part in the survey, which will form the ethics of robots
As previously reported, the company “KAMAZ” in conjunction with Cognitive Technologies is developing a truck-drone. While both passenger robomobilyami engaged…
Students work together to control UAS 8,000 miles apart
Through the Aerial International Robotic Racing of Unmanned Systems (AIRUS) competition, students from Texas A&M University and the University of Sydney in Australia demonstrated how to control a drone from the other side of the world by communicating over the Internet.
PrecisionHawk Forms Partnership with Indiana State University
The collaboration will focus on safety, education, training and algorithm development for PrecisionHawk’s DataMapper aerial data software.
Drone Registration System a Boon to Commercial Operators
While some recreational drone flyers are unhappy with new registration requirements, the website they soon will be using could help commercial drone operators now saddled with a carbon-copy process.
Industry Shifting to Driverless Cars at Different Speeds
Some firms see the way to the driverless car as straight and quick, aiming to revolutionize the way we move…
Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Rangers in Africa’s wildlife parks are getting access to predictive algorithms and surveillance drones with help from researchers and nonprofits formed to help counter poachers.
