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Teams at Carnegie Mellon University to Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge

Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge, a competition in which robots will perform complex, physically challenging tasks as they respond to disaster scenarios in human-engineered environments, such as nuclear power plants.

25 Oct 2012

RAF Gets First UK-Based Armed UAV Operations Squadron

The RAF is getting its first UK-based armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle operations squadron.

24 Oct 2012

Northrop Grumman Delivers Unmanned Aircraft Carrying Battlefield Airborne Communications Node

Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air Force carrying the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) – expanding airborne communications and information sharing among military units in harsh environments.

24 Oct 2012

Blue Origin Successfully Conducts Space Crew Transportation Pad Escape Test

NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin conducted a successful pad escape test Friday at the company's West Texas launch site, firing its pusher-escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital crew capsule from a simulated propulsion module.

24 Oct 2012

Community College Students Chosen for Rover Design at NASA

Forty community college students from across the United States have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to participate in the 2012 National Community College Aerospace Scholars (CCAS) project. The three-day event Oct. 23-25 will feature a rover-building experience.

18 Oct 2012

Researchers Use Underwater Robots to Understand Behavior of Tiger Sharks in Real Time

University of Delaware researchers are using an underwater robot to find and follow sand tiger sharks that they previously tagged with transmitters.

18 Oct 2012

IAI Helps Indian Armed Forces to Upgrade Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fleet

The Indian Armed Forces is working with Israeli firm IAI to upgrade its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle fleet.

5 Oct 2012

New Series of Challenges Launched by DARPA to Design Next-Generation Ground Vehicle

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new series of challenges to design the US Marine Corps' next-generation amphibious vehicle.

5 Oct 2012

Automatic Sense and Avoid Technology Tested for Unmanned Aircraft

A joint team of government, a not-for-profit research and development organization and academia has completed two weeks of flight testing "sense and avoid" technology that could some day help unmanned aircraft better integrate into the national air transportation system.

4 Oct 2012

Report on Unmanned Aircraft Market

Larry Dickerson, Forecast International's senior unmanned vehicles analyst, informed that the global demand for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is rapidly growing.

28 Sep 2012