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Innopolis University Researcher Working on Autonomous Battery Swapping in Drones

Igor Danilov, researcher at the Laboratory of Intelligent Robotic Systems of Innopolis University is working on a project on autonomous battery swapping in drones without human intervention.

29 Jul 2016

Northrop Grumman's Autonomous Global Hawk UAS Sets Endurance Records

Northrop Grumman Corporation's autonomous Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) surpassed 200,000 flight hours, reinforcing its status as the most effective high altitude, long endurance intelligence gathering aircraft in the world.

27 Jul 2016

Terra Drone Partners with Hitachi Construction Machinery to Improve UAV Land-Surveying

Terra Drone, Asia's leading service provider of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, have announced a partnership to accelerate full-automatic UAV operation at construction sites.

27 Jul 2016

Leidos Concludes Initial Performance Trials of Unmanned Sea Hunter off San Diego Coast

Leidos, a national security, health, and infrastructure solutions company, announced today that on June 22, it completed initial performance trials of the technology demonstration vessel it is developing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program.

26 Jul 2016

Raytheon Developing New Networking Solution for Seamless Communication Between Manned and Unmanned Flying Vehicles

Raytheon Company is developing new technologies to allow the next generation of manned and unmanned flying vehicles to communicate seamlessly, even in hostile environments.

26 Jul 2016

Penn State Allows UAV Flights under New Program for Research, Teaching and Public Service

With those final commands from aerospace engineering doctoral candidate John Bird, the AutoSOAR unmanned air vehicle was launched into the sky above the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, releasing with it nearly a year of bottled-up anticipation among faculty, staff and graduate students across the Penn State community.

19 Jul 2016

CyPhy Works Receives Order for PARC System from U.S. Army

CyPhy Works announced today that it has received an order for its Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) System, from the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF). PARC, a tethered drone, addresses the need for a persistent eye-in-the-sky by flying for days at a time.

19 Jul 2016

New Part 107 UAS Regulations to Expand Drone Technology Use for Agriculture, Commercial Purposes

On June 21, 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration released the much anticipated new Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or drone regulations, also referred to as Part 107. These rules go in effect Aug. 29, 2016, and cover a broad spectrum of commercial uses for drones weighing less than 55 pounds (take]off weight).

18 Jul 2016

Real-Time Wildfire Alerts Could Help Keep Unauthorized Drones from Interfering with Firefighting Operations

DJI, the world's leading maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, and AirMap, the world's leading provider of airspace intelligence and navigation services to unmanned aircraft, added real-time wildfire alerts to their geofencing data Wednesday to help keep unauthorized drones from interfering with firefighting operations.

15 Jul 2016

ASU Researcher Discovers Technique to Control Multiple Robotic Drones Using the Human Brain

A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain.

14 Jul 2016

Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) News

Innopolis University Researcher Working on Autonomous Battery Swapping in Drones

Northrop Grumman's Autonomous Global Hawk UAS Sets Endurance Records

Terra Drone Partners with Hitachi Construction Machinery to Improve UAV Land-Surveying

Leidos Concludes Initial Performance Trials of Unmanned Sea Hunter off San Diego Coast

Raytheon Developing New Networking Solution for Seamless Communication Between Manned and Unmanned Flying Vehicles

Penn State Allows UAV Flights under New Program for Research, Teaching and Public Service

CyPhy Works Receives Order for PARC System from U.S. Army

New Part 107 UAS Regulations to Expand Drone Technology Use for Agriculture, Commercial Purposes

Real-Time Wildfire Alerts Could Help Keep Unauthorized Drones from Interfering with Firefighting Operations

ASU Researcher Discovers Technique to Control Multiple Robotic Drones Using the Human Brain

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