News tagged with drone
Medical drones for accident and emergency
Remote or computer-controlled aircraft, commonly referred to as "drones" could revolutionize the way in which emergency medical supplies, such as bags of blood plasma, are delivered to areas hit by disaster, accidents or ...
New app aims to automate drones for good
Researchers at Cranfield University have developed a smartphone app which can connect with off-the-shelf drones and send them to autonomously inspect multiple locations using coordinates received by SMS text message.
Drone transmits uncompressed 4K video in real time using millimeter wave tech
SECOM and Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly developed a millimeter-wave wireless communication system that enables long distance communication, and succeeded in transmitting 4K uncompressed video in real time from ...
Assessing the danger of drone strike: unique test bench to measure collision impact
The rapid rise in the number of drones worldwide has been accompanied by increasing reports of near misses with commercial aircraft. In 2017, while coming in to land, a Canadian passenger aircraft actually collided with a ...
Drone sightings disrupt Singapore flights for second time
Drone sightings have disrupted flights at Singapore's main airport for the second time in a week, authorities said, as the devices increasingly cause havoc for air traffic worldwide.
Game of drones: Airports rally firms to battle threat from above
A quadcopter drone appears on the radar screen and makes a beeline for the control tower at Paris' Le Bourget airport.
Drones for early detection of forest fires
The UC3M's researchers coordinating the scientific part of the project, Fernando García y Abdulla al-Kaff, from the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, have developed the complete automatic flight system, as ...
'Don't drink and drone,' say Japanese MPs
People in Japan operating drones under the influence could face up to a year in prison under new laws passed Thursday that aim to control the increasingly popular devices.
Uber in the air: Flying taxi trials may lead to passenger service by 2023
Uber Air will start test flights of its aerial taxi service in 2020, and move to commercial operations by 2023, the ABC reported today.
Hawks' pursuit of prey has implications for capturing rogue drones
Previous research has shown that falcons intercept prey using the same guidance law as homing missiles, called proportional navigation. This guidance law is optimal against smoothly-manoeuvring aerial targets, but is prone ...
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