The Aerigon has Landed
Intuitive Aerial Inc. Opens Los Angeles Office Los Angeles, CA: Intuitive Aerial AB (INTU.ST), the Swedish manufacturer of the professional cinema drone the Aerigon, has opened a new Los Angeles...
View ArticleHow the Predator Drone Changed the Character of War
Mark Bowden investigates how the unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft altered the battlefield forever Though unmanned, remote-controlled drones had been used in times of war since World War II, they...
View ArticleProf. Davide Scaramuzza’s ‘new technology making drones safer and smarter’
Researchers at the University of Zurich have unveiled new technology enabling drones to recover stable flight from any position and land autonomously in failure situations. It will even be possible to...
View ArticleDrones Are Becoming the Oil Industry’s Guardian Angels
petroleum has become harder to find, it’s become increasingly costly and dangerous to extract. Could aerial data-collection bots create a new boom in fossil fuels? Oil and gas exploration has always...
View ArticleWill we pick privacy over drone-drops from Amazon?
Caren Morrison, Georgia State University – When a Kentucky man shot his neighbor’s drone out of the sky over his house this July, the story hit a nerve. What’s a guy to do when there’s a drone snooping...
View ArticleData show drone attacks doomed to fail against ISIS in Syria
David Alpher, George Mason University – This week, the Washington Post published a story about a new US plan to use lethal drone strikes in Syria to destroy ISIS capabilities on the ground. The desire...
View ArticleComplaints, peeping toms and airplane near-misses show drone regulations are...
Ivan Sikora, City University London | The thing about unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones as they’re commonly known, is that they’re very useful. They’ve been put to use for inspecting infrastructure,...
View ArticleThe design decisions behind Amazon’s strange-looking delivery drone
The unusual look of Amazon’s delivery drone combines elements of both fixed-wing aircraft, such as traditional passenger aeroplanes, and rotocraft such as helicopters, in a design that looks like...
View ArticleSoaring aspirations of Myanmar’s drone enthusiasts
Drones are soaring in popularity in Myanmar, where hobbyists regularly gather to pilot the flying vehicles. Drones have also been used by one university to track damage caused by recent flooding. And...
View ArticleWhat’s the real risk from consumer drones this holiday season?
This holiday season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is estimating that over one million small “Unmanned Aerial Systems” (sUAS’s) – drones, to the rest of us – will be sold to consumers. But...
View ArticleAre drones really dangerous to airplanes?
Imagine boarding a plane. Economy class. There’s a kid behind you kicking the seat. You put on headphones and try to tune out the world. Immediately after takeoff, you feel a thud and hear an explosion...
View ArticleIntuitive Aerial Granted FAA 333 Exemption for AERIGON UAV
Phoenix Air Purchases AERIGON and Receives N-number from FAA Los Angeles, CA: Apr. 14, 2016 . . . Intuitive Aerial has been granted a Section 333 exemption by the FAA to operate any aircraft on the...
View ArticleDrone Racing: Future Sport?
E-sports have taken the word by surprise in the last decade by increasing the number of people attaining to events where people play video-games by the thousands. Now, a new future sport is in town,...
View ArticleHow drones can improve scientific research in the field
Drones – and promises about drones – seem ubiquitous these days. And some of what we associate with drones comes with varying degrees of scariness. We think of automated planes shooting missiles,...
View ArticleHow Might Drone Racing Drive Innovation?
Over the past 15 years, drones have progressed from laboratory demonstrations to widely available toys. Technological improvements have brought ever-smaller components required for flight stabilization...
View ArticleFighting Malevolent AI: Artificial Intelligence, Meet Cybersecurity
With the appearance of robotic financial advisors, self-driving cars and personal digital assistants come many unresolved problems. We have already experienced market crashes caused by intelligent...
View ArticleAmazon Delivery Drones Are Just The First Step To A Highway In The Sky
Amazon recently announced plans to test a drone delivery system in parts of the UK that are hard to access with conventional delivery methods. While much attention has focused on the service it would...
View ArticleHere’s How Drones Will Change Cities
has been busy testing out its new Prime Air initiative at a secret location in the English countryside. The service’s promise of a 30-minute delivery by specially designed drones may look like...
View ArticleObstacle Avoidance: The challenge for Drone Package Delivery
The world’s first drone deliveries have begun trial runs in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Once primarily used by militaries, small quadcopter and octocopter drones are now so commonplace they are for...
View ArticleHow The Drone Went From The Latest Must Have Tech Toy To A Billion-Dollar...
Andy Miah, University of Salford Of the many technologies to have captured our imaginations over the last five years, there have been few with such lofty aspirations as drones. These high-tech flying...
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