Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and The University of Sydney have developed a world-first radio-tracking drone to locate radio-tagged wildlife. Lead researcher Dr Deb... Read more
Drones say goodbye to pilots. With the goal of achieving autonomous flight of these aerial vehicles, the researcher José Martínez Carranza from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics... Read more
Crop analytics drone company Raptor Maps took the $100,000 grand prize May 13 at the 25th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The team of three MIT aerospace engineers developed a... Read more
Imagine a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. That is a concept being developed by NASA researchers called Grea... Read more
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
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
Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement – Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) have developed the first aerial robot able to fly over uneven te... Read more
The AIR 2015 event will be the first aerial entertainment show of its kind to rely on drone technology The world’s first drone circus is to be held in the Netherlands, where aerial robots eq... 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
Shorter take-offs and landings for aircraft, and better manoeuvreabilty for UAVs are just two of the possible benefits of an EU-supported breakthrough in propulsion technology. The vector th... 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
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
Meet VertiKUL, a student-designed prototype at the cutting edge of delivery drone technology Unmanned aircraft may one day be used to deliver packages to your back patio, important d ocument... 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
