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European Country Awards Elbit $78 Million Contract for UAS-Based Intelligence Solution

Elbit Systems Ltd., announced today that it was awarded a contract from a European country to supply an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)-based cutting-edge intelligence solution.

7 Sep 2015

Chimpanzee ‘Attacks’ Drone with a Stick

Cool. Calm. And oh, so calculated. That’s how a chimpanzee living in the Royal Burgers’ Zoo in the Netherlands set out to swat an aerial drone that was filming her group. In an article1 in the journal Primates² published by Springer, Jan van Hooff and Bas Lukkenaar explain it as yet another example of chimpanzees’ make-do attitude to using whatever is on hand as tools.

7 Sep 2015

Carnegie Mellon University Sending Large Delegation to WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions

Carnegie Mellon University is sending the largest delegation of any university to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China, next week, along with robots and Big Data visualization demonstrations that will run throughout the three-day event.

7 Sep 2015

Hedgehog' Robots Perform Controlled Hopping and Tumbling in Comet-Like Environments

Hopping, tumbling and flipping over are not typical maneuvers you would expect from a spacecraft exploring other worlds. Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can't operate upside-down. But on a small body, such as an asteroid or a comet, the low-gravity conditions and rough surfaces make traditional driving all the more hazardous.

4 Sep 2015

Innovative Robot to Seek Out and Control Great Barrier Reef's Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

New robot has crown-of-thorns starfish in its sights It's the robot that has the scourge of the Great Barrier Reef in its sights. QUT roboticists have developed the world's first robot designed to seek out and control the Great Barrier Reef's crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), which are responsible for an estimated 40 per cent of the reef's total decline in coral cover. The COTSbot completed its first sea trials this week in Queensland's Moreton Bay to test its mechanical parts and navigation system.

4 Sep 2015

Louisiana Tech University Develops Innovative Technologies in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Faculty from a number of academic disciplines at Louisiana Tech University are working together to develop new and innovative technologies in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that could impact industries from public safety to forestry to oil and gas exploration.

4 Sep 2015

Measure Granted FAA Approval to Fly More Than 300 Different Types of Drones

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made Measure the only company with permission to fly more than 300 different types of drones for a broad range of commercial applications.

3 Sep 2015

NASA Completes Performance Envelope Expansion Flights for X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed

Marking a milestone for the X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed (MUTT), researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, completed a series of performance envelope expansion flights on August 11.

3 Sep 2015

Insitu Successfully Launches ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft to Demonstrate Fire Monitoring

While more than 625,000 acres of wildfires burned throughout the Pacific Northwest, crew members of the Insitu Rapid Response team launched a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft into the hazy skies above the Paradise Fire in Washington's Olympic National Park.

3 Sep 2015

Self-Driving Golf Carts Ferry Tourists Around Winding Paths in Large Singaporean Public Garden

At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in September, members of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and their colleagues will describe an experiment conducted over six days at a large public garden in Singapore, in which self-driving golf carts ferried 500 tourists around winding paths trafficked by pedestrians, bicyclists, and the occasional monitor lizard.

2 Sep 2015

Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) News

European Country Awards Elbit $78 Million Contract for UAS-Based Intelligence Solution

Chimpanzee ‘Attacks’ Drone with a Stick

Carnegie Mellon University Sending Large Delegation to WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions

Hedgehog' Robots Perform Controlled Hopping and Tumbling in Comet-Like Environments

Innovative Robot to Seek Out and Control Great Barrier Reef's Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

Louisiana Tech University Develops Innovative Technologies in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Measure Granted FAA Approval to Fly More Than 300 Different Types of Drones

NASA Completes Performance Envelope Expansion Flights for X-56A Multi-Utility Technology Testbed

Insitu Successfully Launches ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft to Demonstrate Fire Monitoring

Self-Driving Golf Carts Ferry Tourists Around Winding Paths in Large Singaporean Public Garden

What This Drone Detected Over Greenland Has Climate Scientists Rethinking Everything

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Rare Dust Devil Collision on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is Testing Spacesuit Materials on Mars

RoboBee Achieves Controlled Landing with New Leg Design and Controller

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

Why Are There Robots in Space?

An Introduction to Actuators

Your Guide to Smarter Manufacturing with Machine Learning

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