Archive for the ‘drones’ category: Page 147
Aug 5, 2016
WATCH: US Marines Are Getting Land Drones With Heavy Machine Guns and Tiny UAVs
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=61EJLLyzaUk
For the future: After years of developing unmanned combat #robots, U.S. Marine Corps was finally able to test drive one… at last.
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Aug 3, 2016
The QuadRKT is half-quadcopter, half-missile, and built for speed
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, engineering
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iD3MuG3zBIA
Half quad-copter and 1/2 missile.
The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google’s delivery drones). However, there’s still room for innovation in this market, as demonstrated by the QuadRKT: a quadcopter drone with a rocket-shaped fuselage that can hovers vertically, but also switch to a horizontal orientation when it needs to go really fast.
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Aug 2, 2016
10 Crazy Things Drones Are Being Used For Right Now
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military
Where is PETA when you need them.
When we think of drones, we still often think primarily of their military uses, despite the fact that they’re increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. Drones serve an impressive range of roles in the military, commercial, public, and civilian sectors. They’re also becoming more and more affordable and accessible. If you’ve been to an open-air event with a decent crowd lately, there was probably at least one person there flying their personal drone around, taking aerial footage to upload to social media.
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Aug 2, 2016
Drones Set to Deliver Medicine to Remote Parts of the U.S. — By Jamie Condliffe | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: drones, government, policy, robotics/AI
“The White House has asked whether Zipline’s drones, pioneered in Rwanda, could fly much-needed drugs and blood to Americans.”
There are 110 million active landmines in the world. This drone is detonating them, one by one: http://kck.st/29RtcCo
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Jul 29, 2016
Facebook’s internet drone
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, internet, satellites
Jul 29, 2016
World’s largest self-driving warship aces its first sea trials: US Navy’s 132ft-long ‘Sea Hunter’ drone will scour oceans for enemy subs
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
Dubbed the ‘Sea Hunter’, the 132ft ship is designed to travel thousands of miles out at sea without a single crew member on board.
The self driving warship has now completed its first trials — and passed with flying colours.
Jul 22, 2016
Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes flight
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, internet, solar power, sustainability
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Thursday it had completed a successful test flight of a solar-powered drone that it hopes will help it extend internet connectivity to every corner of the planet.
Aquila, Facebook’s lightweight, high-altitude aircraft, flew at a few thousand feet for 96 minutes in Yuma, Arizona, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page. The company ultimately hopes to have a fleet of Aquilas that can fly for at least three months at a time at 60,000 feet (18,290 meters) and communicate with each other to deliver internet access.
Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) has also poured money into delivering internet access to under served areas through Project Loon, which aims to use a network of high-altitude balloons to made the internet available to remote parts of the world.
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