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African Monkeys Develop Special Call to Warn of Nearby Drones
May 29, 2019A drone flown by German researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research elicited a new alarm-call from West African green monkeys, Chlorocebus sabaeus. The meaning of this call was learned very...
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Drone Uses AI to Overcome Turbulence
May 29, 2019Takeoffs and landings are often the two trickiest parts of multi-rotor drone flights. Autonomous drones in particular could be typically wobbly due to turbulence and inch slowly toward a landing until power...
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DOWSE, A DrOne Water Sampling SystEm
May 29, 2019Testing water samples from large water bodies at regular intervals is an imperative yet sometimes tedious operation. Now new unmanned aerial systems (UASs, or drones) technology may assist in collecting water samples...
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Aurora Backs LiDAR After Musk Bashes It
May 28, 2019CEO Chris Urmson of Aurora, a pioneer in autonomous driving, said that his company bought Blackmore LiDAR, which develops and manufactures the LiDAR that uses sensors to help navigate through traffic. Light...
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A Review of Social Drones – Autonomous Flyers in Inhabited Environments
May 28, 2019Findings of a unique study about Human Drone Interaction (HDI) were presented at the CHI ’19: ACM CHI Conference on ‘Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Drones’ by researchers Mehmet Aydin Baytas,...
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