Robotics
A bird flaps its wings, glides using air currents and then smoothly descends to perch on a pole. But this is not just any bird, it's a robot bird. And robots like these could in the next decade be used to respond to emergencies ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Engineering
There is strength in numbers. That's true not only for humans, but for drones too. By flying in a swarm, they can cover larger areas and collect a wider range of data, since each drone can be equipped with different sensors.
May 18, 2021
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Engineering
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's…actually pretty easy for radar to tell the difference. Flying aliens from Krypton notwithstanding, there are simply not many things moving through the mostly empty, wide-open ...
May 12, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Skoltech scientists have created a new monitoring system for agricultural applications that performs real-time image segmentation aboard drones to identify hogweed. The research was published in a high-profile journal, IEEE ...
May 11, 2021
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Other
Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community.
Apr 28, 2021
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Engineering
University of South Australia researchers have drawn inspiration from a 300-million-year-old superior flying machine—the dragonfly—to show why future flapping wing drones will probably resemble the insect in shape, wings ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Engineering
Disguised as a sparrowhawk, and convincingly mimicking its predatory cry, a drone made of wood, scrap metal and plastic disperses birds at a Cuban airfield.
Apr 27, 2021
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Engineering
The week of Thanksgiving last year, a postcard arrived in mailboxes in Christiansburg. A link to a survey was on the back. On the front, there was a picture that was, by then, very familiar to the residents of a town that ...
Apr 22, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Keeping up with wireless demand is a never-ending endeavor for data providers, who often contend with temporary high-usage hotspots that might be underserviced by the fixed-base station network. Tethered drones could provide ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Engineering
Many parcel delivery drones of the future are expected to handle packages weighing five pounds or less, a restriction that would allow small, standardized UAVs to handle a large percentage of the deliveries now done by ground ...
Mar 23, 2021
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