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Video: Quadcopter UAV Careens Through Extremely Tight Spaces Autonomously
UPenn's Quadcopter, Ducking Through a 'Window' Daniel Mellinger/GRASP UPenn Fully embracing the notion that there's no point in building a UAV if it doesn't make other UAVs look completely lame by...
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Iran Announces Launch Of Its Unmanned Flying Saucer
Flying Saucer Fars News Agency via Daily MailThis photo accompanies an actual news release from an actual Iranian news service, which claims the Islamic Republic has built a flying saucer. Of course,...
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Rolling Robot Transforms Into A Helicopter On Command, Decepticon-Style
Rolling Robot Helicopter This robot's two configurations allow it to roll along a surface, then to stand upright and take off like a helicopter. via IEEE Spectrum Not sure whether to use a cylindrical...
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Video: Microdrone Goes On Safari, Buzzing Kenyan Wildlife To Capture Footage
Microdrone Safari via YouTube Regular readers of this page are all pretty familiar with the latest generation of flying robots, from tennis-playing quadcopters to surveillance hummingbirds. But...
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Batcopter Flies Along With Bat Swarms, Helping Researchers Study Bat Behavior...
Batcopter In Flight Boston University's Kenn Sebesta flying the Batcopter Mk2. Nathan Fuller Every night in Texas, vast swarms of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from caves to dine, swarming in dense...
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Introducing the Matternet, A Network of Drones For Deliveries In Remote...
Collecting Clean Water Hawo and other Somali refugees collect clean water. Oxfam East Africa via Flickr This summer's crippling famine in Somalia, which has killed tens of thousands of people and led...
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Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter,...
Rising to Eight Feet High The bottom of each strip of tape on Elizabeth here marks one foot. Team Gamera Records are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are...
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Turn Household Objects Into Drones With New DIY Kit
DIY Keyboard Drone Jasper van Loenen, via Vimeo Really, why shouldn't keyboards fly? A new suitcase-size kit by Dutch artist Jasper van Loenen lets you attach four rotors to almost any object so that...
View ArticleWatch A Drone Launch A Rocket
This is a quadcopter that launches rockets. According to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based ukarmy04, the Flitetest forum member behind the project, it's more of a proof of concept than anything else. The body is...
View ArticleThe Week In Drones: Hunting In Packs, Bothering Falcons, And More
Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft.Theorizing Better Military DronesRand...
View ArticleMushroom-Body Drone Biodegrades Into Almost Nothing
Small, cheap drones make appealing cameramen for a variety of tasks -- from a research apparatus to a tourist's plaything. Light, unmanned aircraft, especially those…
View ArticleThe Week In Drones: Mushroom Corpses, Parasite Concepts, and Skycraft Carriers
Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news: the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft. Concept Billboards Design…
View ArticleTGI Friday’s In-Restaurant Drone Hovers Mistletoe Over Customers' Heads
Circling overhead, the drone finds its prey seated below. The robot is looking not for specific identifying characteristics of people, but rather suspect behaviors. In the…
View ArticleCan A Kangaroo Defeat A Drone?
Australia is a strange and deadly place, where the technological advances of man are repeatedly tested against the fiercest creatures nature has ever brought forth. In…
View ArticleEveryone Became A Drone Pilot This Christmas
It’s likely that thousands of Americans opened up drones under their Christmas trees this year. Befitting their arboreal home, many soon found themselves piloted by…
View ArticleCES 2015: Flying, Racing, And Destroying Drones At The Drone Rodeo [VIDEO]
While thousands of techies, journalists, and more are descending upon Las Vegas for CES this week, we escaped the madness for a bit on Monday, traveling about an hour…
View ArticleMan Saves Drone From Watery Grave
In less than a minute, this pilot’s maiden flight was about to end under water. Drained of power, the engines on his drone began to fail, and his craft drifted down,…
View ArticleHobbyist Turns Drone Into Millennium Falcon
How does a hobbyist make their drone stand out from the sea of identical quadcopters? Dress it up like it’s got stolen goods inside and the Galactic Empire is on it’s tail,…
View ArticleA PSA On How Not To Fly Drones
Yep, that's me crashing a quadcoptor on live national television last week. Hovering one moment, careening into an innocent cameraman the next. At Popular Science we talk,…
View ArticlePlay Contact-Free Football, Soccer, And More With This Sports Drone
Passersby could easily mistake anyone testing out this new sports drone with some form of mild sorcery. With the wave of a remote-control wand, a player sends the flying…
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