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UTM: Opening Up the Airspace for Long-Distance Flights
Test sites are looking to unmanned traffic management (UTM) technology to make the airspace safer for all drone operations—including beyond visual line of sight flights (BVLOS).
Autonomy Warfare
This new type of warfare is producing new types of superpowers. Just having nuclear weapons doesn’t get you into the new superpower club.
Robots In Retail
Whether on the ground in the store or flying through the aisle in a warehouse, robots have the potential to save a great deal of time and money, while helping to improve the customer experience.
Aquabotix Launches the Integra AUV/ROV
The new Integra AUV/ROV from Aquabotix is single person deployable and designed for a variety of sectors, including research, environmental assessment, law enforcement and defense.
Intel Falcon 8+ Drone Being Used in Inspection of Cathedral
The 15th century Halberstadt Cathedral in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is getting help from 21st century technology: the Intel Falcon 8+ drone….
Nissan and DeNA Announce Easy Ride Service for Robo-Vehicles
Through the Easy Ride transportation service that Nissan and DeNA are collaborating to create, customers will be able to summon a robo-vehicle as well as set their destination and pay their fare via a dedicated mobile app.
Cyberhawk drone completes first ASME code inspection at U.S. nuclear plant
Cyberhawk Innovations recently used an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to inspect two concrete PWR containment domes for American Electric Power at the Cook Nuclear Plant.
HAZON Solutions and PrecisionHawk Form Partnership
HAZON Solutions recently incorporated PrecisionHawk’s Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety (LATAS) technology into its drone fleet management software.
Velodyne LiDAR and BoE Systems Form Partnership
Velodyne LiDAR’s VLP-16 Puck and Puck LITE 3D LiDAR sensors will now be integrated into BoE Systems’ drones, enabling the systems to provide geospatial data collection and analysis.
Working Together
Just as with teams of people, so much more ground can be covered when multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) work together.
After the Storm
While this certainly wasn’t the first time UAS were deployed after a hurricane, it was the first time they were used on such a large scale.
Driverless Car Bills Advance as Public’s Doubt Takes Root
Legislation supporting the testing of driverless cars advanced in the Senate.
Fighting Air Pollution on the Fly
Not only can drones serve as eyes in the sky, but they can be eyes on the sky as well—detecting and characterizing pollution in the air.
MQ-9 UAS Helping to Support Northern California Firefighting Efforts
The MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has been deployed to help with firefighting efforts in Northern California.
ASV Global and TerraSond Complete First Seabed Cable Route Survey with USV
For the first time, an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) recently completed a seabed cable route survey that included various water depths and strong currents.
Intel Completes Wildlife Expeditions Studying Polar Bears and Whales
Using drone technology and artificial intelligence (AI), Intel recently completed to successful wildlife expeditions, one focusing on polar bears and the other on whales.
