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Thirteen university student teams from across Canada competed in the Flying Phase of the 9th Unmanned Systems Canada UAS Student Competition hosted by Centre d’Excellence sur les Drones (CED) in Alma QC from 28 – 30 April. Congratulations to the winner, University of Toronto – UAV Division. Continue reading
The research unit at AT&T is working to combine two of what are perhaps the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry: drones and artificial intelligence. Specifically, AT&T Labs is researching ways to take video footage from a drone flying around an AT&T cell tower and use AI to analyze that footage for signs of rust, corrosion or other defects on the tower. Continue reading
Walking near the end of a massive tongue of glacial ice rising hundreds of meters above the sea, a group of scientists spotted an unexpected and ominous sign. About 100 meters from the edge of the glacier was a crack a few meters wide. The crack was fresh—there was no sign of it the day before. “We decided we wouldn’t walk farther,” said Guillaume Jouvet, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Continue reading
British-based drone consultant, Consortiq, has announced the opening of its new office in America. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, this strategic move allows the company to neighbour Washington D.C, a central East Coast drone innovation hub. Continue reading
Whereas we can see hurricanes and blizzards coming from miles away, tornadoes form very quickly and on smaller scales. Predicting them requires very detailed understanding of atmospheric processes at a resolution that you can’t get with weather radar. Continue reading
NASA has awarded Black Swift Technologies, a specialized engineering firm, a contract to develop and deliver a purpose-built scientific platform to explore volcanoes in order to improve air traffic management systems and the accuracy of ashfall measurements. Continue reading
IBM has announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s home. Continue reading
Uber announced that it has selected Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network. The formal announcement of the initiative partners took place at Uber’s Elevate Summit in Dallas, Texas. Continue reading