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Overcoming Obstacles Related to Operating Fleets of Drones

Drones are already in use by search and rescue teams to find missing hikers. Farmers use them to fly over fields to inspect crops. Soon, delivery companies will employ drones to drop packages at a person’s doorstep.

3 May 2019

Global Analysis and Forecast of Mobile Robot Market 2018-2023

The "Global Mobile Robot Market: Focus on Type(Automated Guided Vehicle, Autonomous Mobile Robot, and Unmanned Ground Vehicle), and Industry - Analysis and Forecast, 2018-2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

3 May 2019

AiRXOS Provides Flight Monitoring for World’s First Unmanned Aircraft Delivery of Donor Organ

AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation, took part in the world’s first unmanned aircraft (UA) flight that delivered a donor kidney to surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland for fruitful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure.

29 Apr 2019

Engineers Successfully Build and Demonstrate World’s First Flight of “Lighter than Air” UAV

A new kind of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully completed its maiden flight, thanks in part, to the proficiency of University of Southampton engineers.

25 Apr 2019

Drones can Fly in Windy Conditions with the New Insect-Inspired Arm Technology

Delivery via drone is great—on an ideally, sunny day. But can they function when it is windy? The majority of drones cannot endure wind due to their fixed-arm design.

17 Apr 2019

Ambarella and Momenta Launch HD Mapping System for Autonomous Vehicles

Ambarella, Inc. a Santa Clara, California-based manufacturer of high-resolution video processing and computer vision semiconductors, and Momenta, an autonomous driving technology company based in Suzhou, China, recently reported a joint HD mapping platform for autonomous vehicles.

16 Apr 2019

Drone-Based Survey of Antarctic Sea Ice Provides Detailed Characterizations

A team led by Chinese researchers has publicized the fine-scale surface features of the Antarctic sea ice by using drones to obtain high-resolution images and data, according to a research reported in the international journal Remote Sensing.

16 Apr 2019

New Lighter and Cheaper LIDAR Technology Could Pave the Way for Smaller Autonomous Vehicles

LIDAR (light detection and ranging) is an indispensable technology in autonomous vehicles for recognizing and detecting surrounding objects.

10 Apr 2019

Study Shows Perceived Presence of Key Capacities Could Make People More Likely to Hold Robots Morally Responsible

A pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona was struck and killed by a self-driven car last year. Now, Arizona and the city of Tempe are being sued for negligence by the family of the victim.

8 Apr 2019

Study Reveals Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Traffic Fluidity and Capabilities of Motorways

Scientists of the UWICORE laboratory, of the Department of Communications Engineering and the I3E Engineering Research Centre of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, have demonstrated that the coexistence between conventional and autonomous vehicles will markedly affect the estimated effects of autonomous driving.

4 Apr 2019