And here we have the fruit pickers of the future. Hovering drones. đ
This fleet of drones will pick fruit for you! Fruit production has exploded over the past few years, but so has food waste! Increased demand sometimes means unpi⊠See More.
Founded by Google veterans and backed by $340 million from major VCs, Skydio is creating drones that seem straight out of science fictionâand they could be flying around your neighborhood soon.
The technology could boost aerial robotsâ repertoire, allowing them to operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
If youâve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insectsâ agility.
Innovating And Investing In The New Space Age â Space 2.0 â HĂ©lĂšne Huby, VP, Orion-ESM, Airbus Defence and Space.
HĂ©lĂšne Huby is Vice-President of the Orion European Service Module (Orion-ESM), at Airbus Defence & Space.
It can exceed the speed of sound, hitting an astonishing Mach 2.1! đČđ€Ż
A new combat drone has been created that can hit speeds of more than 1500mph.
The drone is much bigger than the ones youâll have seen floating around your local parks, however, and looks more like a small spaceship.
The Defense Department is hungry for small drones that will track objects and fly into buildings, combat zones and other dangerous areas with little help from remote pilots. Self-piloting drones will become a key part of fighting and other military activities in the years to come, said Mike Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, a Pentagon organization that aims to facilitate cooperation between the military and the tech industry.
While much has been made of techâs unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industryâs decades-long ties to the military.
In the coming weeks, a drone will fly beyond its operatorâs visual line of sight using only onboard collision-avoidance â with no ground radar support.
This bolt-on system creates a drone that can fly straight out of your fabricator.
Itâs been very cool to watch 3D printers and laser cutters evolve into fairly common tools over the last decade-ish, finding useful niches across research, industry, and even with hobbyists at home. Capable as these fabricators are, they tend to be good at just one specific thing: making shapes out of polymer. Which is great! But we have all kinds of other techniques for making things that are even more useful, like by adding computers and actuators and stuff like that. You just canât do that with your 3D printer or laser cutter, because it just does its one thingâwhich is too bad.
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