(Source: defenseone.com) In the past year, drones have crashed onto the White House lawn, hauled radioactive cesium to the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s Tokyo office, and swooped above battlefields in Iraq and Ukraine. The future of drone design is an area with huge importance for companies and for the military. At the recent Unmanned Systems 2015 show in Atlanta, … [Read more...] about The 9 Strangest Flying Robots from the World’s Biggest Drone Show
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Alta-Native Ways to Power UAVs
by Molly Hornby The negative connotation of Drones is slowly being lifted as developments of the devices for commercial and recreational uses are ever increasing. Once a device solely associated with the Military, drones are being widely used and developed within a number of sectors, and with this increasing popularity the importance of long-lasting battery life … [Read more...] about Alta-Native Ways to Power UAVs
DARPA Project Could Lead to Thinking Drones
The drones are learning. A recent DARPA project that piggybacks a “neuromorphic chip” atop a minidrone shows promise in developing computer chips that may someday be able to learn much in the way the human does. UAV manufacturer Aerovironment provided a small drone (six-inches square, 1.5 inches high and weighing 93 grams) to HRL Laboratories' Center for Neural and … [Read more...] about DARPA Project Could Lead to Thinking Drones
Police Used a Drone to Chase and Arrest DUI Suspects
(Source: motherboard.vice.com) Last Friday, near a cornfield in North Dakota, four underage men were pulled over under suspicion of drunk driving. The four men hopped out of their car and bolted into the cornfield. Grand Forks police didn't follow them: Instead, they put a drone in the sky. "One of them was walking through the cornfield. It took about three minutes to … [Read more...] about Police Used a Drone to Chase and Arrest DUI Suspects
8 Drone Makers Target Sustainability
from greenbiz.com Unmanned aerial vehicles — or drones — are associated mostly with military operations in remote parts of the world. That’s not surprising, considering their far-reaching impact in the global theater of war. But like many technologies originally developed for defense — such as jet engines, the Internet and GPS — the possibilities for drones also go well … [Read more...] about 8 Drone Makers Target Sustainability
