The U.S. Department of Transportation has launched the Advisory Committee on Automation in Transportation (ACAT) to give expert advice on regulating driverless cars.
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Drones and First Responders: Help From Above
More and more first responders are turning to drones during search and rescue missions.
Expert Commentary: The Dark Side of Detect and Avoid
Hacking U.S. drones to spy on U.S. infrastructure.
By Major General (Ret) James Poss
Picturesque: Using Drones to Preserve Historical Sites
Europe’s heritage sites reflect a history that goes back thousands of years. But the old continent also boasts a resourceful and forward-looking high-tech community, including a growing unmanned systems industry.
The Promising Business of Counting Sunflowers
French UAS manufacturer Delair-Tech is pushing the boundaries of high-tech agriculture with seed producer Maisadour Semences to develop drone-based applications for counting sunflower plants across vast cultivated fields.
Expert Commentary: It’s the Data Link, Stupid
If the Air Force had let me order custom t-shirts for everyone back when I was helping manage our unmanned…
SAFE Says Automakers Should Share Autonomous Vehicle Test Data
LAS VEGAS—In order to grow the burgeoning autonomous vehicle (AV) industry, automakers should share test data, according to a new report released at the recent CES technology show.
Air Brushed: New Drones Make Painting Easier
Robert Dahlstrom and his wife own a beach house in Florida, and in 2013, it needed painting. His Internet security…
Mach Up: Free Drone Design Software for Students, Startups
Drone startup companies raised more than $450 million in venture capital across 74 deals in 2015, according to CB Insights…
Double Dipping: Marine UAV’s
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is expanding research horizons by boosting sample collection.
Driving Innovation from the Inside
The team at the GE Healthcare Milwaukee repair facility is always looking for ways to improve efficiencies and to automate more processes — like moving materials through the 280,000 square foot building.
Insuring Against…Everything
While there is great frustration over the slow integration of drones into airspace long used exclusively by piloted planes, unmanned operators are benefiting greatly from the presence of manned aircraft in another arena—insurance.
General Overview: NASA UTM Conference
NASA’s concept for a possible UTM system would safely manage diverse UAS operations in the airspace above buildings and below crewed aircraft operations in suburban and urban areas.
Monitoring, Mapping, Measuring: How Drones Are Changing The Mining Industry
Unmanned aerial systems can be used for a variety of mining tasks, including measuring the volume of stockpiles, monitoring blasts and mapping construction.
Expert Commentary: Beyond Line Of Sight 101
Last month we discussed what we got, what didn’t get and what we need from Part 107. There’s great rulemaking…
Smart Cities to Spur Autonomous Vehicle Growth
In the next five years, experts say that autonomous vehicles will be entrenched in smart cities’ infrastructure to include mass…
