Building A Drone Out of What?
Airframe design is an important factor in the design of unmanned aircraft. A common challenge encountered is requiring one part to serve several functions,...
Drones Can Improve YOUR Situational Awareness
Groups of drones now can work together in networks for purposes such as traffic control, smart agriculture, surveillance and security systems, law enforcement, public...
Unexpected Aid In Search and Rescue
A team composed of a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a search and rescue canine demonstrated a unique collaboration without intervention from...
Innovation In Reaching Victims During Emergency
A new search and rescue drone was designed to provide first responders with an all-in-one victims localization system capable of working in the aftermath...
Drone Swarms Can Replace Manual Human Inspection
An autonomous offshore wind farm inspection technology under development will use aerial “drone swarms” deployed from an uncrewed marine robotic vessel. The system, developed...
How an Autonomous Drone Saves Lives
With the increase in recent years of refugees fleeing from dangerous areas via the sea, an urgent humanitarian crisis, some researchers have begun developing...
The Growth Of The Drone Market
The global micro UAV market for military applications is projected to register a CAGR of 5.7% over 2020-2030. Nano UAVs will register a growth...
New Drone Authorization Will Advance Operations
Current regulations require drone operators to always have a pair of eyes on the drone, limiting the ability to fly long distances. The ability...
New Technology Allows First Responders To See In The Dark
On a daily basis, first responders are exposed to various risks, from moving vehicles to wildfires. But what happens when it's dark and hard...
Unbelieveble Search and Rescue – All The Way From Norway
The capabilities of the CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned air vehicle have been recently demonstrated on board a Norwegian coast guard vessel. S-100 is a Vertical...
Autonomy in Future Battlefields
Autonomy experts from the Pentagon say that the most important military use of autonomy in the years ahead will be replacing the manned reconnaissance...
Secret Documents Reveal Plans for Super Swarm Project
Recently shown budget documents reveal that the US Navy is currently working on ways to build, deploy, and control thousands of small drones that...
Air Taxis – Becoming a Reality
Today, roughly 1 billion airline passengers per year are concentrated through only 50 hub airports in the US to reach just the 380 airports...
Police Officers Deploy These Drones At Crime Scenes
Law enforcement teams are increasingly using drones for various policing purposes, but there are two major challenges: relatively short flight times, and the need...
Elovating Cyber Security In UAVs
Unmanned aerial vehicles face a wide range of threat vectors in cyber space while they are in flight, including the potential for an adversary...
Cyber Security On The Battlefield – From AI To Autonomy
Artificial intelligence software in battlefield autonomous systems can be vulnerable to cyber attacks. Researchers are looking for ways to make the systems’ machine learning...
Drones and Planes Will Share the Same Altitude
Currently, automated unmanned aerial vehicles beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight in unrestricted airspace is a very significant barrier to overcome in order...
US Military Acquiring Underwater Swarm Warfare Technology
The US Navy aims to acquire several unmanned surface and underwater vehicles capable of deploying drone swarms in contested territory. The Navy has handed...
Utilizing Airports as New Testing Arena
Drones continue to concern law enforcement and security authorities charged with protecting critical infrastructure and large public events. Drones have become a genuine threat...
This System Does Not Need A Map – Only Artificial Intelligence
Unlike humans, robots must be told what to do at all time - without an algorithm to guide it, modern technologies are not able...
Drones In Smart Cities – One Step Into The Future
High-rise buildings require regular inspections. With accelerating digitization, the need for structural scans is growing while pilot availability is limited. A new drone charging...
This Drone Finds Survivors By Their Screams
Drones are ideal responders to a disaster, especially when comparing advanced drones and human capabilities. While sending a human onto freshly collapsed rubble risks...