Although its non-military drones sector rakes in a puny one percent of the money (US$1.1 billion) invested in drone producers…
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Stanford’s Flying, Perching SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls
Automaton Robotics Drones SCAMP climbing the Stanford University clock tower. Morgan Pope is a Ph.D student investigating robots that live…
Malawi using drones for health research and saving lives
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3D ROBOTICS & Autodesk FORGE New Frontier
Leading drone maker 3D Robotics is using the Autodesk’s Forge Platform to develop a new UAV-to-cloud solution for enterprise field…
Military mulls letting robots take the point
The Army and Marines have tested autonomous ground vehicles against simulated IEDs. Unmanned Systems Throughout history, warfighting has been affected…
Why was a humpback whale caught in a headstand?
A recently released video taken by a scientific research drone off the coast of Maui, Hawaii caught a humpback whale…
Heller pursues more drone testing in Nevada, transportation options at McCarran
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s drone testing sites would have more autonomy to partner with private industry on emerging technology, and McCarran…
The Coast Guard Wants to Use Drones to Navigate Ice in the Great Lakes
Every year, huge portions of North America’s Great Lakes freeze over, often in gigantic, treacherous ice packs . The ice,…
VectorNav Technologies Introduces VN-360 GPS-Compass
DALLAS, March 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — VectorNav Technologies introduced today the VN-360 GPS-Compass heading and position sensor. The VN-360 is an OEM…
Cyberhawk Completes Offshore ROAV Inspection in N. America
Offshore man with drone (Photo: Cyberhawk Innovations) Cyberhawk Innovations, a leader in aerial inspection using Remotely Operated Aerial Vehicles (ROAV),…
Army selects 3-D printed unmanned aircraft systems concept for future experiment
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 5, 2016) — Each year, the U.S. Army conducts a series of technology demonstrations known…
High-energy laser weapons target UAVs
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Telecoms join to drive drones for network quality
More and more telecom network operators are gearing up to utilize the opportunity associated with drones for improving network quality…
uAvionix partners with Dronecode to advance development of ArduPilot-based drones
uAvionix Corporation, a firm involved in unmanned ADS-B technology, and Dronecode, a nonprofit organisation developing a shared open source platform…
NASA is Hunting El Niño Storms With a Special Military-Grade Drone
An extra-warm , extra-crazy El Niño winter is causing havoc across the country, and particularly terrorizing the West Coast. As…
Microchip shrinks radar cameras to fit into a palm
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a chip that allows new radar cameras to be made…
Kraken to Supply Sonar System for Elbit’s Seagull USV
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada — Kraken Sonar Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary Kraken Sonar Systems Inc. will supply its KATFISH towed…
