MuDD Architects offers new ways of building with natural local materials and drones. It allows to build in a matter of days large scale sustainable constructions. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Singapore to Trial 5G Supported Drones for Port Surveillance
Airbus Skyways drone
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (“IMDA”), M1 Limited (“M1”) and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (“MPA”) have partnered with Airbus to conduct coastal 5G standalone (“SA”) network trials at the Singapore Maritime Drone Estate. Continue reading
Cannabis Factory in Former Pub Caught by Thermal Camera on Drone
A huge cannabis factory worth £500k, which was hidden in a disused pub in Willenhall, has been raided after it was rumbled by drones. Continue reading
Dubai Police Manned Drone Crashes During Exhibition
A manned eVTOL from the Dubai Police crashed a few days ago during a live display. The video has been uploaded by the manufacturer Hoversurf, to show that the security measures were effective. Continue reading
Drone Technology Counts Turtles on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Researchers at Raine Island, the world’s largest green turtle rookery, have used a drone to conduct accurate population surveys, with stunning results. Continue reading
Wing Now Dropping Library Books to Kids
Kelly Passek has thought up a way to get kids to read this summer: deliver library books by drone. Passek, a middle-school librarian, was one of the first customers of a drone delivery service launched in Christiansburg, Va., last year by Wing, a company owned by Google parent Alphabet. After seeing how quickly her household goods and meals were delivered, she petitioned the company to take on library books, too. The company said yes, and the first books fly out this week. Continue reading
Drone Trials AI to Detect Sharks at Australian Beaches
A world-first scientific trial using artificial intelligence (AI) to help drone pilots identify shark species in real time has been completed at five beaches in northern NSW.
Improving Drone Collision Avoidance with Stereo Cameras
Three drones were used as target drones in the experiments in order to evaluate the generalization capability of the model to different drone modalities
Recently, a team of researchers from Madrid Polytechnic University, MIT, and Texas A&M University produced real-world results in active collision monitoring and avoidance by building an integrated system of a simple camera and data processing setup well suited for smaller drones. Continue reading