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iSchool NEXIS Discusses Drone Technology with Lockheed Martin

As a part of National Engineers Week last week, members of the New Explorations in Information and Science lab (NEXIS) at the School of Information Studies (iSchool) spoke to employees at Lockheed Martin in Syracuse about developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) technology and policy.

27 Feb 2014

GHR Seeks Patent for Drone Based Advanced Geophysical Receiving Technology System

Gold Hill Resources, Inc. ("GHR" or the "Company"), a mining and subsurface detection technology company, today announced that it has filed seven new patents over the course of last year including a patent application regarding Advanced Geophysical Receiving (AGR) technology embedded in a drone based detection system.

26 Feb 2014

Hexagon Announces Acquisition of Unmanned Aerial Multicopter System Provider, Aibotix

Hexagon AB, parent company of Leica Geosystems and leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, announced today the acquisition of Aibotix, a manufacturer of intelligent multicopter systems for high-efficiency aerial applications.

24 Feb 2014

Clearpath Robotics Successfully Integrates Myo Armband with Husky Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Kitchener based companies and University of Waterloo startups, Thalmic Labs and Clearpath Robotics have joined forces to prove gesture controlled robots are possible.

24 Feb 2014

Wave Glider Aids in Continental-Scale Acoustic Monitoring of Commercial Fish Stocks

Growing marine algae to solve society’s food, energy and climate change problems and a revolutionary tool to track marine fish populations are two topics Cornell oceanographer Charles Greene will discuss during presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 23-28 at the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu.

21 Feb 2014

Northrop Grumman to Install Virtual Instance of CIP to Support Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Common Imagery Processor (CIP) has taken another important step in supporting the Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System by deploying to Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, N. D., last year.

21 Feb 2014

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Work on Murray Ridge

A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on "Murray Ridge," without any new impact craters nearby.

21 Feb 2014

Curiosity Rover Uses Reverse Driving to Lessen Wheel Damage

Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit.

21 Feb 2014

Autonomous Experiment with SMSS Unmanned Ground Vehicle and K-MAX Unmanned Air Vehicle

Lockheed Martin received a contract from the U.S. Army Robotics Technology Consortium to conduct a fully autonomous reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition experiment using both its Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicle and K-MAX unmanned air vehicle.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 20 Feb 2014

Technology & Market Forecast Report on UAVs for Defense and Security

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Defense and Security: Technology & Markets Forecast – 2013-2021

20 Feb 2014

Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) News

iSchool NEXIS Discusses Drone Technology with Lockheed Martin

GHR Seeks Patent for Drone Based Advanced Geophysical Receiving Technology System

Hexagon Announces Acquisition of Unmanned Aerial Multicopter System Provider, Aibotix

Clearpath Robotics Successfully Integrates Myo Armband with Husky Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Wave Glider Aids in Continental-Scale Acoustic Monitoring of Commercial Fish Stocks

Northrop Grumman to Install Virtual Instance of CIP to Support Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned Aircraft System

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at Work on Murray Ridge

Curiosity Rover Uses Reverse Driving to Lessen Wheel Damage

Autonomous Experiment with SMSS Unmanned Ground Vehicle and K-MAX Unmanned Air Vehicle

Technology & Market Forecast Report on UAVs for Defense and Security

What This Drone Detected Over Greenland Has Climate Scientists Rethinking Everything

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Rare Dust Devil Collision on Mars

RoboBee Achieves Controlled Landing with New Leg Design and Controller

Flexible, Magnetic Soft Robot Navigates, Senses, and Communicates Wirelessly

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A Look Inside NASA’s Curiosity Rover

Autonomous Agriculture: The Tech Sector’s Next Big Bet in Sustainability

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