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New High-Performance Platform Boosts the Future of Commercial Drone Applications

On Apr 12, 2017, PrecisionHawk, a provider of enhanced commercial drone technologies, announced that it will work in partnership with Corning Incorporated in order to sell the Corning® microHSI™ 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera merged with PrecisionHawk's platform for drone data collection and analysis.

13 Apr 2017

Researchers Demonstrate First Complete Sabotage Attack on 3D Printed Drone Propeller

A group of researchers from three universities combined their skills to demonstrate the first complete sabotage attack on a 3D additive manufacturing (AM) system, describing the way a cyber attack and malicious manipulation of blueprints can seriously damage production of a machine or device.

21 Oct 2016

New UAS Rule Provides Easier Path for Commercial Drone Operators to Secure FAA Certification

The recent changes to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a significant development because commercial drone operators will no longer require Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval by exemption, which has typically taken months to secure.

21 Oct 2016

WVU Engineering Students Win $750,000 Top Prize in NASA's Robotics Competition

NASA just recently held this year's Robotics contest last week and a group of ten Engineering Students from West Virginia University won a whopping $750,000 which was given last week in Massachusetts' Worchester Polytechnic Institute, as reported by ABC News.

14 Sep 2016

MIT’s REXIS to Help Spacecraft Identify Locations for Collecting Asteroid Sample

An SUV-sized spacecraft, loaded with instruments and an extendable robotic arm, will soon be barreling toward a space rock, on a round-trip journey that promises to return an unprecedented souvenir: extraterrestrial soil, taken directly from an asteroid, that could hold clues to the very early universe.

8 Sep 2016

World-First Research Finds Technical Problems Rather than Operator Errors Behind Majority of Drone Accidents

Researchers Dr Graham Wild and Dr Glenn Baxter from RMIT University’s School of Engineering, along with John Murray from Edith Cowan University, completed the first examination of more than 150 reported civil incidents around the world involving drones, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS).

24 Aug 2016

Space Center Houston, NineSigma Announce Launch of NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

Building homes on Mars and interplanetary travel are no longer the stuff of science fiction; the latest achievements in robotics are putting these dreams within our reach.

18 Aug 2016

Sinclair Joins Leaders to Examine Commercial Applications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. today joined leaders in government and industry to examine the commercial applications for unmanned aircraft systems. Sinclair was the only broadcaster to be invited to the White House workshop, "Drones and the Future of Aviation."

3 Aug 2016

LuxSpace, ORBCOMM Receive Four-Year Satellite-Based Automatic Identification System Service Contract from EMSA

Today LuxSpace Sàrl, an affiliate of OHB SE (Prime Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), and its partner, ORBCOMM Inc., announced the award of a four-year satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data service framework contract with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).

2 Aug 2016

New UK-RAS Network White Paper Highlights Biomimetic Mobility of Robots in Space

Autonomous robots capable of walking, swimming and climbing, will replicate insects, birds, animals and even humans on future missions of space exploration within decades, according to a new UK-RAS Network white paper led by Professor Yang Gao, Head of STAR Lab at the University of Surrey.

25 Jul 2016

Aerospace Robotics News

New High-Performance Platform Boosts the Future of Commercial Drone Applications

Researchers Demonstrate First Complete Sabotage Attack on 3D Printed Drone Propeller

New UAS Rule Provides Easier Path for Commercial Drone Operators to Secure FAA Certification

WVU Engineering Students Win $750,000 Top Prize in NASA's Robotics Competition

MIT’s REXIS to Help Spacecraft Identify Locations for Collecting Asteroid Sample

World-First Research Finds Technical Problems Rather than Operator Errors Behind Majority of Drone Accidents

Space Center Houston, NineSigma Announce Launch of NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

Sinclair Joins Leaders to Examine Commercial Applications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

LuxSpace, ORBCOMM Receive Four-Year Satellite-Based Automatic Identification System Service Contract from EMSA

New UK-RAS Network White Paper Highlights Biomimetic Mobility of Robots in Space

Deep Learning Elevates the Precision of Brain Surgery

Machine Learning Improves Aerosol Prediction Accuracy

Proto-DS: Advanced AI for Food Testing and Quality Control

Robots Outperform Humans in Chemistry Research

Machine Learning Predicts Flight Efficiency Accurately

Robots and Renewable Energy: Hydropower Inspections

Robots and Renewable Energy: Wind Farm Monitoring

Robots and Renewable Energy: Solar Plant Security

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