Animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced plans to launch hunter- and fisher-tracking unmanned aircraft in American airspace. Continue reading
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Iowa State University UAS at Make to Innovate Expo
Students at Iowa State University showed off their creations last week on campus believe that one day UAS will dot Iowa’s skies, saving lives and improving the environment one unmanned flight at a time. Continue reading
“Stealth-Ware” Clothing Line to Thwart Cell Tracking and UAS Surveillance
In a move that demonstrates that UAS, facial recognition technology, and cellphone snooping are starting to affect the broader culture, the New York-based artist Adam Harvey has designed a line of high-tech garments made with sophisticated fabrics that can block signals and thwart cameras. Continue reading
FAA Announces RTCA Special Committee 203, Unmanned Aircraft Systems May 1-3
The FAA has issued a notice to advise the public of the twenty-third meeting of RTCA Special Committee 203, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, to be held May 1-3, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Continue reading
Turkey, US Sign Unmanned Aircraft Cooperation Agreement
A statement by the Turkish General Staff about the unmanned aircraft cooperation agreement expressed that the flights in northern Iraq will be “conducted entirely under Turkey’s direction.” Continue reading
LED Quadrotors Display Star Trek Logo Over London
Over the weekend, the studio behind Star Trek Into Darkness took the film’s title literally, commissioning the flying of a giant, glowing Starfleet insignia in the London night sky. Comprised of 30 LED-illuminated quadrotors, the 308-foot-tall logo rotated in place 118 feet above ground (video below), before dimming its lights alongside those of Tower Bridge and Big Ben in recognition of the WWF’s Earth Hour conservation effort. Continue reading
Journalism School Teaching Reporters How to Fly J-Bots
The emergence of UAS journalism is expected to become such a mainstay of the media industry in the next few years that journalism students at the University of Missouri Journalism School, in Columbia, Mo., are now taking courses how to use UAS to report stories. Continue reading
Delft Dynamics Selected by Dutch Defence for Development of Flying Robots
Delft Dynamics‘ project ASIMOV, “Autonomous Rapid Deployable Multicopter for Overview and Security”, has been selected by the Dutch Ministry of Defence as best project proposal of a total of 44 submitted proposals by Dutch SMEs under the SBIR tender “Safe ground based actions and military operations in urban areas”. This research and development project will be executed in a period of two years. Continue reading