UAS VISION
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Scientists have devised a series of novel and inexpensive attacks that can severely disrupt mission-critical global positioning systems relied on by the military and a variety of industrial players, including airlines, mining companies, and operators of hydroelectric plants and other critical infrastructure. Continue reading
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For the past two weeks, in the woods of central Virginia around Fort Pickett, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) four-legged robot has been showing off its capabilities during field-testing. Continue reading
A study by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has used small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) to reproduce the flight paths of birds of prey and get environmental information of their hunting areas. Continue reading
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The device doesn’t look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer. But the technology behind it, and the long-range possibilities it represents, are quite remarkable. Continue reading
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The Robotics Laboratory (LAIRLab) at Carnegie Mellon Unvivesity and the Robotics Instutute teamed to work on the “Probably-Stable Vision-Based Control of High-Speed Flight through Forests and Urban Environments” project, funded by the Office of Naval Research. Continue reading
NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event January 25 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Continue reading
In a major first, researchers at Stanford University have built a prototype of an all-carbon solar cell, including carbon nanotubes. Continue reading
The Federal Aviation Administration has given the go-ahead for unmanned aircraft to begin more test flights over Central Georgia. Continue reading