In this 23-minute video, Professor Raffaello D’Andrea from ETH Zurich at ZURICH.MINDS presents: “Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution” — an amazing display of the future capabilities of machines using flying robots. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Google Glass App to Make Wheelchairs Eye-Controlled
What would you do with Google Glass? The company asked the public that question, with the hashtag #ifihadglass, to help find testers for its “explorer” programme. Continue reading
New Mexico State University Partners with AeroVironment for Study on UAS into NAS Integration at Night
New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory has partnered with AeroVironment to study the safety of small, unmanned aircraft system operations at night in the National Airspace System. Study results strongly indicate nighttime operations of unmanned aircraft systems are safe, maybe even more so than daytime operations. Continue reading
Survey Survey Shows Increased Use of UAS by Universities
The NYU chapter of Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a nation-wide progressive student organization, has recently launched an investigation into the use of unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
University of Minnesota Develops UAS for Crop Control
For many people, the drone discussion has mostly come from Washington, but on the campus of the University of Minnesota, a group of researchers are tinkering with that discussion in their own way. Continue reading
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Conducts First UAS Research Mission over Gulf of Mexico
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will conduct the first mission over the Gulf of Mexico with their unmanned aircraft from Monday, March 11 through Friday, March 15. Continue reading
BAE Systems Gets $43M Micro-Robotics Research Funding from US Army Research Lab
BAE Systems has been awarded a $43 million cooperative agreement extension to lead the Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance for an additional five years. Continue reading
Next-Generation Batteries from the US Air Force Research Laboratory
The US Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio has just published a new paper on Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials. Continue reading