Beijing Police plan to purchase unmanned aircraft to monitor emergency situations such as traffic accidents, a top official has said.
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Adept Showcases Maveric UAS from Prioria
Adept Technology announced that it will add an aerial robot to its range of land-based wheeled mobile platforms. The products from Adept MobileRobots group were showcased at the IEEE ICRA 2011 Conference, which was held at the Shanghai International Convention Centre in Shanghai, China from May 9-13, 2011.
NOAA’s Arctic Mission Complete
UAS from Norway (left), the United States (centre), and Russia (right) with the flight teams in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway. Photo Credit: Kjell-Sture Johansen/Norut
An international research team, including scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle, completed a series of unmanned flights over the Arctic on April 30.
Aeroseeker Launches NextGen QuadRotor at Singapore Show
AeroSeeker launched its highly portable, four-rotor, unmanned aircraft with high quality video surveillance and aerial video streaming capabilities at the International Defence Fair in Singapore.
CNN Aerial Footage of Alabama Storm Damage
This is what footage shot from a Parrot AR.Drone really looks like… ! It turns out that the footage that we published last week from Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily‘, was indeed professional, as reader David Wray suspected.
Fukushima Video from Honeywell’s T-Hawk
Three Honeywell employees have flown five successful T-Hawk missions and captured hours of video and dozens of photos of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. The four RQ-16A T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicles in service at Fukushima have been adapted to carry radiation sensors. This video continues to focus on Reactor N° 4 :
Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily’ iPad News Shows Video Reports from Toy UAS
Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Daily is the first American national daily news publication exclusively for the iPad. As part of the drive towards more creative content, the publication has been experimenting with video footage like this shot from a toy unmanned aircraft.
Improved Scout from Datron
Datron World Communications has announced several improvements to its Scout unmanned aircraft, including two new payloads and structural enhancements that make the device more durable and sturdier.