Drones

Kobe Bryant and eight other people died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday morning.Los Angeles law-enforcement officials, coroners, and federal transport authorities are all investigating.Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters Monday that many unauthorized people, including mourners, paparazzi, and "looky-loos," had been trying to access…

January 28, 2020 by John Aldred 1 Comment There’s been quite a bit of hype surrounding Autel’s three new drones in the Autel EVO II series. Designed to compete directly with DJI’s range of Mavic drones, the EVO II comes in three flavours, two of which can shoot 8K 10-Bit…

The helicopter that crashed while carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others on Sunday did not have a flight recorder known as a black box, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board announced on Monday afternoon.The recording device was not required for the aircraft.The NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy said the…

UPS is scaling up its next-day delivery and drone delivery networks — and it's investing $20 billion on automating its facilities. In doing that, UPS is looking for new partnerships with companies that are leading the charge in those "mega-trends."Scott Price, UPS' chief strategy and transformation officer, said the package giant looks…

Farming is one of the oldest professions, but today those amber waves of grain (and soy) are a test bed for sophisticated robotic solutions to problems farmers have had for millennia. Learn about the cutting edge (sometimes literally) of agricultural robots a…

Looks like Canon isn’t the only one on fire when it comes to announcing new gear in 2020 (at least judging from the rumors). After a long break, it seems that we’ll see as many as three new drones from DJI this year. And according to the reports, the first…

Drones can fly like birds, but that’s pretty much where comparisons with our feathered friends end. Well, unless you build an experimental drone like PigeonBot, the unusual biomimetic creation developed by researchers at Stanford University. Boasting a pair of “biohybrid morphing wings,” it uses real feathers to test out a…

The U.S. Air Force soon could deploy a radar-evading target drone. One that easily could evolve into a front-line warplane. California-based Sierra Technical revealed its prototype drone in photos the company released in mid-January 2020. The Fifth-Generati…

As the total cost of cybercrime reaches into trillions of dollars and continues to rise, an Israeli firm called Intezer — which has built a way to analyse, identify and eradicate malware by way of an ordering system similar to what’s used when mapping out DNA — has raised $15 million to…

Try as they might, even the most advanced roboticists on Earth struggle to recreate the effortless elegance and efficiency with which birds fly through the air. The “PigeonBot” from Stanford researchers takes a step towards changing that by investigating and …