Engineering
Dance of the Quadcopters? Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios have partnered to develop a film that shows 10 quadcopters in performance. What would one expect with the name-brand Cirque du Soleil. Humans and ...
Business
The chief executive of drone delivery company Wing says 2024 is "the year of drone delivery." The company first went public in 2014 as a Google "moonshot" project and now operates in several cities in Australia, the United ...
Jun 27, 2024
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Business
Mountain View, California, residents will soon be able to order food, medicine and other small parcels to their homes via drone.
Jun 27, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
With weather, limited flights and long distances, gravel runways at remote airports—particularly in northern Canada—are difficult to get to, let alone to inspect for safety.
Jun 14, 2024
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Software
A research group at Osaka University has developed an innovative positioning system by correctly aligning the coordinates of the real and virtual worlds without the need to define routes in advance. This is achieved by integrating ...
Jun 3, 2024
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Business
Federal regulators have given Amazon key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program, the company announced Thursday.
May 30, 2024
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Robotics
Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) uses ChatGPT to develop choreographies for swarms of drones to perform along to music. An additional safety filter prevents mid-air collisions. The researcher's ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Robotics
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been central to the war in Ukraine. Some analysts claim that drones have reshaped war, yielding not just tactical-level effects, but shaping operational and strategic outcomes as ...
Feb 16, 2024
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Telecom
For the first time, visitors at the 2024 Olympic Games will be able to fly to venues using air taxis. Vertical takeoff aircraft such as drones, multirotors and air taxis will take off from and land on pads known as vertiports.
Feb 1, 2024
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Engineering
A single burst of light is precisely aimed at a tiny drone flying at breakneck speed far in the distance. Instants later, the deactivated drone crashes into the sea. Not a sound made, no human casualties, no messy explosions. ...
Jan 23, 2024
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