During a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Dr. Rosemarie Oelrich and Dr. Cory Stephanson unveiled a new way to detect buried and submerged mines. Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
New Electric Hover Bike – the Kitty Hawk Flyer
Kitty Hawk, a startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page has revealed a flying car that’s in development and promised on the market by the end of 2017. Continue reading
Succesful First Launch for Space-Based ADS-B Netwok
Aireon has announced the successful launch and deployment of the first ten satellites hosting its space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) system. Part of the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation, Aireon’s space-based ADS-B network will transform air traffic management capabilities, providing real-time air traffic surveillance and flight tracking across 100 percent of the planet. Continue reading
NASA Awards $1M Contract to Human Automation Teaming Solutions
NASA has awarded Human Automation Teaming Solutions Inc. (HATS) a $1 million contract for a yearlong effort to develop R-HATS technology that will reduce the number of human operators needed to manage complex systems. By allowing the seamless sharing of tasks and responsibilities between automation and human, a single ground operator using R-HATS will simultaneously assist and monitor multiple manned or unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
DARPA’s XS-1 Phase B
Since the dawn of the Space Age, space vehicles have predominantly shared one major limitation – their fundamentally single-use, disposable nature, and the high mission expenses that inevitably entails. Continue reading
BAE Systems is Developing a Pilotless Plane
Engineers at BAE Systems have already launched a series of test flights in which the high-tech prototype flies by itself using computers while being monitored by operators sitting 15,000ft below it. Continue reading
Tech Inspired By Nikola Tesla Charges Drones In Mid-Air
Everything that flies must eventually land. Unless, say, it’s an all-electric drone that can recharge while in flight. Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated a way to transfer electricity wireless to a flying drone. Even better: they did so building on a concept pioneered by Nikola Tesla. Continue reading
Amazon Patents Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assistant
Amazon has received a patent that covers the systems required to build a pocket-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that responds to voice commands.The patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says Amazon’s technologies are supposed to enable miniature drones that are “smaller, lighter, and less expensive than conventional UAVs.”