News
Meet RoboFly – A Wireless Flying Robotic Insect
May 16, 2018Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a flying robot drone no bigger than an insect. The wireless controlled device called ‘RoboFly’ weighs slightly more than a toothpick and is powered...
LiDAR
Researchers Create UAV That Can Classify Trees Using Deep Learning
May 16, 2018Researchers at Kyoto University have used a drone carrying a camera to take aerial photos of trees and classify them automatically using a deep-learning algorithm. Often, ecological scientists and land use managers...
Autonomous
France Gives Green Light for Autonomous Car Experiments
May 16, 2018Autonomous cars will arrive on the roads in the early 2020s, and the French government is preparing for the driverless revolution by unveiling a strategy to help the national car industry. To...
News
Saildrone Scales Up With $60M Funding to Help Save The Oceans
May 16, 2018San Francisco-based Saildrone, the company that is working with several agencies including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the U.S. and Australia’s leading scientific research organisation, CSIRO, has made...
Drone Delivery
AirMap, Zipline and Flirtey to Partner with Cities in Drone Testing Program
May 10, 2018With today’s announcement of the 10 governments selected to carry out the Trump administration’s UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP), drone technology innovators AirMap, Zipline and Flirtey have been selected to help cities...