(Source: prnewswire.com) Raptor Maps, a startup building and operating drone technology with the goal of feeding a growing world, was awarded the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 grand prize Wednesday night after beating out seven other finalist teams during the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition's Launch Finale held on the MIT campus. This year's teams of finalists … [Read more...] about Drone Tech Startup Raptor Maps Wins MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, $100K Prize
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MIT Grad’s Anti-Drone Tech Used at Boston Marathon
(Source: Biz Journals) The Boston Marathon on Monday was using technology developed by an MIT graduate that warns Boston Police Department officers when drones are entering the airspace above the 30,000 marathon runners. This year's 26.2 mile-long course was declared a "no-drone zone" by Boston officials last week. Brian Hearing, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based … [Read more...] about MIT Grad’s Anti-Drone Tech Used at Boston Marathon
Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
(Source: technologyreview.com) Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days. Tom Driscoll, cofounder and chief technology officer of a startup called Echodyne may be the only one whose quadcopter packs the kind of sophisticated radar used on fighter jets. “We flew it around, did some collision avoidance, and locked onto one of our engineers … [Read more...] about Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
Video of the Day 3/29/15: Seraph – Dancing With Robots
What happens when the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory teams up with the Pilobolus modern dance company? A drone dance. Naturally. Former MIT PhD candidate Wil Selby shared this video with us and explained the history of the project: As a side project in graduate school, I assisted in choreographing and operating a quadrotor with a modern … [Read more...] about Video of the Day 3/29/15: Seraph – Dancing With Robots
MIT Embracing Drones for Delivering Acceptance Letters… Sort of
It seems the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working on turning its entire admissions process over to drones. In 2013, MIT demonstrated the prototype for Skycall, a system that conducts campus tours using a drone and your smartphone. Now the globally recognized university has followed it up with a video of drones delivering acceptance letters with drones: So … [Read more...] about MIT Embracing Drones for Delivering Acceptance Letters… Sort of
