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Engineering & Design
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.
Lockheed Martin UAS and Optionally-Piloted Helicopters Work Together During Demonstration
For the first time, Lockheed Martin demonstrated how its suite of small unmanned aerial systems and optionally-piloted helicopters can work…
Press Release: uAvionix Partners with PrecisionHawk to add on-board ADS-B to LATAS Enabled Drones
Palo Alto, CA – November 16, 2016 uAvionix and PrecisionHawk today announced a plan to jointly develop the next generation…
AeroVironment Launches Quantix UAS and Decision Support System
AeroVironment launched its new integrated commercial information support solution—which features the Quantix drone and a Decision Support System—at Drone World…
DRU Drone by Flirtey Delivers Domino’s Pizza in New Zealand
For the first time, drones are delivering pizzas to people’s homes. Flirtey and Domino’s Pizza Enterprise recently began autonomously delivering…
Altavian Introduces the Amphibious Nova F7200 AE UAS
Altavian recently introduced the Nova F7200 AE, the latest model in its Nova line of fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems. The…
NovAtel and Stanford Sign Autonomous Vehicle Study Agreement
NovAtel has signed a contract with Stanford University for a study to determine how GNSS technology can deliver a positioning…
Drone Surveys Improve Automated Road Construction
Drones may one day help transportation departments generate 3-D maps that can be used to help guide automated equipment during construction projects.
Combination of Sensors Needed for Autonomous Vehicle Development
One of the main concerns for driverless system developers is to decide what systems work best, either standalone, or in conjunction with other devices, to achieve full autonomous driving capability.
Leveraging LiDAR
Whether you’re deploying an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to map a corridor or are part of a team tasked with…
Press Release: Sensonor supplies IMUs for NASA Raven and Near Earth Orbit Scout
Sensonor AS first began supplying its standard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and Gyroscope Modules for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space…
Microdrones UAS Performs Successful Water Rescue Demo
The company collaborated with DLRG and RESTUBE to demonstrate how drones can help rescue swimmers in distress.
Toyota Research Institute Partners with the University of Michigan
The institute recently committed to investing $22 million toward research focused on artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous driving at the university.
Urmson Departs Google’s Autonomous Vehicle Program
The executive who has been the face of Google parent company Alphabet’s burgeoning autonomous vehicle program is stepping down. Chris…
White House Announces New Steps to Promote Drone Adoption
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has announced new steps to promote the safe integration and adoption of UAS across the United States.
