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FAA Grants Sanborn Section 333 Exemption to Commercially Operate UAS Flights

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) approval to commercially operate an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) under the agency's Section 333 Exemption. The exemption permits Sanborn to offer UAS-based services to its customers immediately.

4 Jun 2015

New MIT System Generates Lower-Level Control Systems to Help Robots Handle Uncertainty

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes are a way to model autonomous robots’ behavior in circumstances where neither their communication with each other nor their judgments about the outside world are perfect.

3 Jun 2015

DARPA Robotics Challenge Finalists to Integrate HRI's Wireless Emergency Stop Technology into their Robots

Humanistic Robotics, Inc. (HRI), a robotics and technology innovator dedicated to making the world safer through engineering and design, has teamed up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to heighten the safety at the final "showdown" of the DARPA Robotics Finals, June 5-6, 2015.

3 Jun 2015

DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals Competition to Take Place June 5-6 in Pomona, California

Summary: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—the organization that laid the groundwork for the Internet, stealth technology, handheld GPS and much more—invites the public to attend the exciting conclusion of a three-year robotics competition focused on developing robots that can assist humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters.

2 Jun 2015

UC Merced Professor Becomes Part of Major New Robotics Initiative

UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

1 Jun 2015

Understanding Insect Mating Behavior Could Help Drones Find Sources of Odors from Pollutants

Male moths locate females by navigating along the latter’s pheromone (odor) plume, often flying hundreds of meters to do so. Two strategies are involved to accomplish this: males must find the outer envelope of the pheromone plume, and then head upwind.

30 May 2015

Polaris Offers Patrick Henry Student Opportunity to Attend DARPA Robotics Challenge

Polaris® Industries Inc. has selected Patrick Henry High School Student Jared Voight to accompany Polaris officials at the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals to be held June 5-6, at the Fairplex, in Pomona, Calif. Voight will be able to write about his experiences on Polaris’ social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter.

29 May 2015

UAVs Help Study Migrating Gray Whale Mother and Her Calf

One recent spring day, John Durban, a NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologist, stood on the California coast and launched an unmanned aerial vehicle into the air.

29 May 2015

Analysis and Forecast Report on North America UAV Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "North America Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market by Class Type, by Application, by Geography - Analysis and Forecast to 2019" report to their offering.

29 May 2015

Service-Drone Announces Availability of Recon One Multirotor UAS

Once again, an industry-first, MULTIROTOR service-drone announces the upcoming availability of its Recon One multirotor Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Specifically developed for reliable, autonomous long-duration flights of up to 90 minutes, the Recon One is capable of carrying payloads of 500g and up under special configurations.

28 May 2015