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In this video, the Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA’s Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). Continue reading
Youngest Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is 50 Years Old
Last Friday marked 50 years since Boeing delivered its last B-52 Stratofortress to the U.S. Air Force. H-model bomber 61-040 was assigned to Minot Air Force Base, N.D., where it remains in active service. Continue reading
Most American UAS Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into UAS video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reapers, Danger Room has learned. Continue reading
Eleven UK Hermes Crashes in Afghanistan in 5 Years
British Army operations involving leased Elbit Systems Hermes 450 tactical unmanned aircraft have recorded 11 crashes in the past five years, Armed Forces Minister Andrew Robathan has revealed. Continue reading
Surprise Strike Against Sudan Arms Factory – Israeli Air Force or American UAS ?
Sudan has accused that the Yarmouk munitions factory in Sudan, believed to be supplying weapons to the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, was attacked in Israeli Air Force’s last long-range raid against a nearby “dangerous terrorist state.” Continue reading
University of Mississippi Law School Offers Free Supplement to the Journal of Space Law on UAS Integration into National Air Space
The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law offers this publication as a service to inform the debate about how the plan to integrate UAS into the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) should be formulated and what it should ultimately contain. Continue reading
Swarming Robots Interact with UAS
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“Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly,” by Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O’Grady, and Marco Dorigo, from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, was presented at IROS 2012 in Vilamoura, Portugal. Continue reading
RPAS In News Gathering
Twenty journalists, policy and legal specialists and aerospace technology experts gathered at the Institute on Oct 22 to discuss challenges posed by the use of unmanned aircraft in news gathering. Continue reading