Emesent, a drone autonomy company spin-out from Australian federal research agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has developed software that allows autonomous drones to create mapping of underground spaces such as mines and […]
Researchers at MIT are working on using a fleet of drones to collaboratively search for missing people under dense forest canopies. They equipped each autonomous quadrotor drone with laser-range finders for position estimation, localization, and […]
Xcel Energy has begun flying drone-conducted exterior inspections at the Prairie Island and Monticello nuclear plants in Minnesota. According to Xcel, each inspection was completed in two days, provided high-quality data, improved crew safety, and […]
‘Deep Forest’, a project backed by environmental group Fundecor, Intel and Aerial Robotixs, aims to give scientists in Costa Rica a better idea of what is happening in the country’s forest canopy, and allow more […]
Researchers from Colorado University (CU) Boulder, CU Denver and Scientific Systems Company (SSCI), Inc. are partnering to design drones that can explore underground environments. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the […]
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the New York University, and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a gaze-driven method of controlling unmanned aerial vehicles. The deep learning system uses NVIDIA GPUs to facilitate […]
Lockheed Martin, the Drone Racing League and NVIDIA have partnered to design a challenge called AlphaPilot – which calls for the creation of artificial intelligence technology that allows autonomous drones to out-race human-piloted drones. “Put […]
The country of Colombia is currently using ten remote-controlled drones designed to track and destroy coca – the crop used in cocaine production. The drones, each weighing 23kg (51lb), carry payloads of glyphosate – a […]
Engineers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a flexible quadcopter drone. Unlike other drones which are based on the principles of origami, these quadcopters were also inspired by the […]
According to a May 2018 report by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, approximately 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire, and emergency service agencies in the U.S. have acquired […]
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