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Jul 20, 2016

World’s Fastest Consumer Drone Flies Up To 85 MPH

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#Drone enthusiasts! New store-bought Teal modular will become the “drone of your dreams,” new #tech could compete in #DroneRaces.

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Jul 20, 2016

Killer ‘legobots’ are coming: US Military to build brickbots

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, military

Plug and play is preparing to launch.


DARPA hopes to shrink traditional military machines into single ‘chiplets’ to build a library of components to aid everything from smart drone building to instant language translation. Shown, an artist’s impression of the components that could be shrunk onto a single chip.

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Jul 19, 2016

Is MIND-CONTROL the future of warfare?

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, military, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Although BMI is nothing new; I never get tired of highlighting it.


Now the group has come up with a way for one person to control multiple robots.

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Jul 18, 2016

Researcher builds technology to control drone swarms with his mind

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, neuroscience, robotics/AI, security

About 5 years ago a friend of mine at Microsoft (Mitch S.) had a vision of making a new security model around drone swarms and a form of BMI technology. Glad to see the vision come true.


Scientists have discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain, an advance that can help develop swarms of search and rescue drones that are controlled just by thought.

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Jul 17, 2016

SpaceX successfully lands Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground for the second time

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space travel

SpaceX has successfully landed another Falcon 9 rocket after launching the vehicle into space this evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Shortly after takeoff, the vehicle touched down at SpaceX’s Landing Complex 1 — a ground-based landing site that the company leases at the Cape. It marks the second time SpaceX has pulled off this type of ground landing, and the fifth time SpaceX has recovered one of its rockets post-launch. The feat was accomplished a few minutes before the rocket’s second stage successfully put the company’s Dragon spacecraft into orbit, where it will rendezvous with the International Space Station later this week.

It’s also the first time this year SpaceX has attempted to land one of its rockets on land. For the past six launches, each rocket has tried landing on an autonomous drone ship floating in the ocean. That’s because drone ship landings require a lot less fuel to execute than ground landings (something we explain here). If a rocket has to accelerate super fast during launch — such as those going to high orbits or ones carrying heavy payloads — it uses up a lot of fuel during the initial takeoff. That leaves less fuel for the rocket to land back on Earth, which means a drone ship landing is sometimes the only option. But for this launch, the mission requirements allowed for a successful landing on ground.

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Jul 15, 2016

Drone disguised as a BIRD discovered in Somalia — is it a surveillance tactic?

Posted by in categories: drones, surveillance

The drone crashed in Mogadishu’s Waabari district this week where it was found and pictured on social media.

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Jul 14, 2016

Sirens of Titan: Flying Aerobot Drone Could Soar Over Saturn Moon — By Elizabeth Howell | Space.com

Posted by in categories: drones, space

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“As the long-running Cassini mission enters its last year at Saturn, NASA is moving forward with an early-stage technology study to send a drone to its moon Titan.”

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Jul 13, 2016

Russia’s Next Military Game Changer: Microwave Weapons?

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New drones and fighters could fry enemy hardware from a distance.

Michael Peck

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Jul 11, 2016

System controls robots with the brain

Posted by in categories: computing, drones, neuroscience, robotics/AI

More update on controlling drones with BMI.


Using wireless interface, operators control multiple drones by thinking of various tasks.

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Jul 11, 2016

Uploading my brain waves to the cloud, Azure IoT Hub and Emotiv brain interface

Posted by in categories: drones, neuroscience

Nice read by Microsoft on their BMI efforts.


I have been reading a lot about brain interfaces and that the Tesla S can be summoned with the brain and that people have started having competitions with drones controlled by brain waves. I have recently acquired an Emotiv Insight® as shown in Figure 1 and have been doing some testing with it.

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