While many people were holiday shopping, a team of Airware engineers traveled to Kenya to conduct field tests of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed to protect rhinos from the threat of poachers. The successful tests demonstrated that UAS can be a viable tool for wildlife conservation. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
UAS to Help Firefighters in Dubai
UAS will be used in Dubai for the first time to send live videos of fire incidents to emergency services, officials revealed during the Intersec safety and security show in Dubai on Sunday.The “quad-copters” will be sent ahead of first-responders to fire incidents to cover all angles of the blaze to help Dubai Civil Defence (DCD) teams in dousing operations. Continue reading
Predator Series Aircraft in Search & Rescue Missions
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that Predator-series aircraft have been involved in several high-profile search & rescue missions in recent months. Continue reading
Indestructible Quadcopter Airframe on Kickstarter
This quadcopter airframe from Game of Drones was createed by Eli Delia and Marque Cornblatt and features a virtually indestructible airframe. The Action Sports Airframe was rigorously tested for over a year. It was subjected to repeated 300 foot drops, exposed to fire, crashed through windows, and shot out of the sky with a shotgun. Continue reading
The Flying Donkey Challenge
The Flying Donkey Challenge is an escalating series of sub-challenges held annually in Africa. World-leading roboticists, engineers, regulators, entrepreneurs, logisticians, and designers will win substantial grants by advancing the safety, durability, legality, profitability and friendliness of cargo robots. Continue reading
UAS 3D Imagery to Hunt for North Sea Oil Reserves
Academics at the University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with a group at the University of Bergen in Norway, are using remotely operated flying machines to scan rock formations in remote areas in order to better understand what lies beneath the surface and improve understanding of subsurface reservoirs. Continue reading
Pocket Drone Kickstarter Campaign Raises $265K +
Hardware Battlefield entrant Pocket Drones blew past their initial goal of $35,000 after launching on the Tech Crunch stage at CES 2014. Billed as The Pocket Drone, the world’s smallest heavy lift micro-copter, the rotors fold back so that the entire machine can fit into a pocket. Continue reading
Draganfly’s New Shadow and Guardian Quadrotors
Draganfly Innovations has released two new multirotor helicopters, the Shadow and the Guardian. These quadrotor aircraft are built to carry high megapixel cameras and transmit the live video feed back to the operator. Both aircraft share the same frame, with the Guardian sporting more powerful motors and a larger battery, giving it a higher payload capacity. Continue reading