Drones

Protestors look up as a military helicopter flies low onto the crowd. (Photo: Roberto Schmidt, AFP via Getty Images) Apparently, the government was watching. The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used helicopters, aeroplanes, and drones in 15 cities to monitor demonstrations that protested the…

Black Lives Matter protests continue across the United States. Sarah Tew/CNET A New York Times report Friday revealed the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security used drones, helicopters and planes to conduct surveillance of Black Lives Matter protests across the country. The aircraft logged around 270 hours of surveillance footage…

5G will make robots more responsive.  Getty Images 5G's not just for phones. Now, with Qualcomm's new RB5 system, it's also for robots and drones.The San Diego mobile chipmaker on Wednesday introduced the first 5G system with hardware, software and tools for advanced robots. The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 platform uses…

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Vietnam has banned drones from flying near all government premises on national security grounds. Many countries, including the UK, the US, and Australia, ban flying drones around airports and close to certain types of buildings. But Vietnam's communist government has gone a step further banning their use within 200m of…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 June 2020 / 1,391 ViewsPublisher All In! Games and developers One More Level, 3D Realms, and Slipgate Ironworks have released a gameplay trailer  for first-person cyberpunk action game Ghostrunner at the Future Games Show 2020. View the trailer below: Read the latest details on the…

In a new paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at Intel, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich describe an AI system that enables autonomous drones to perform acrobatics like barrel rolls, loops, and flips with only onboard sensing and computation. By training entirely in simulation and leveraging…

This is footage of some of the 64,000 endangered green sea turtles as they come to breed and nest around Raine Island on the outer edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. By painting 2,000 of the turtles' shells (with a non-toxic paint that washes off in a few days) and…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to reinterpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations with the goal of allowing U.S. defense contractors to sell more American-made drones to a wide array of nations, three defense industry executives and a U.S. official told Reuters.The policy change, which has…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to reinterpret a Cold War-era arms agreement between 34 nations with the goal of allowing U.S. defense contractors to sell more American-made drones to a wide array of nations, three defense industry executives and a U.S. official told Reuters.The policy change, which has…