One American state is proposing a hard line on drone-associated crime DIRECT action against drones (see article) is one way to deal with those that are up to no good. In part of the United S... Read more
In the hands of criminals, small drones could be a menace. Now is the time to think about how to detect them and knock them down safely ON APRIL 22nd a drone carrying radioactive sand landed... Read more
U.S. Navy researchers have demonstrated swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed to overwhelm an adversary autonomously as the UAVs fly together like flocks of birds. UAV experts at... Read more
For under-resourced park rangers patrolling the porous, poacher-friendly borders of Africa’s national parks, conserving the ailing rhino and elephant populations is certainly a tall or... Read more
In a world first, RMIT University researchers have developed a talking drone that can converse with air traffic controllers just like a normal pilot The development is a critical step toward... Read more
Some are calling it the World Cup for Drones, while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has simply labeled it the Drones For Good award. Whichever way you spin it, offering up US$1 million in pri... Read more
Comparing an unmanned aerial vehicle to a magnetic resonance imaging machine may seem odd, but that is how the director of the Mississippi State University Geosystems Research Institute sees... Read more
DARPA aims to give small unmanned aerial vehicles advanced perception and autonomy to rapidly search buildings or other cluttered environments without teleoperation Military teams patrolling... Read more
Football-size robot can skim discreetly along a ship’s hull to seek hollow compartments concealing contraband Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MI... Read more
The internet has become a critical means of communication during humanitarian crises and a crucial everyday tool for people around the world. Now, a Portuguese company wants to make sure eve... Read more
“Expectations are very high in Belize,” Dr. Maaz said. “There’s so much we can do and need to do.” Belize has made a great effort to protect its coral reef system — the largest in the Wester... Read more
The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal... Read more
The new HorseFly octocopter–a small drone with eight rotors–is designed to live on the back of a electric delivery truck. As the truck makes its rounds, the HorseFly splits off t... Read more
This growing season, crop researchers at the University of Illinois are experimenting with the use of drones – unmanned aerial vehicles – on the university’s South Farms. Bowman intentionall... Read more
Mahmoudian’s AUVs, named ROUGHIEs (for Research Oriented Underwater Gliders for Hands-on Investigative Engineering) will be underwater gliders. Powered only by batteries, they will “fly” slo... Read more
