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Autonomous Drone Uses a Live Moth Antenna to Navigate Toward Smells

One huge advantage of drones is that these little robots can go places where people can't, including areas that might be too dangerous, such as unstable structures after a natural disaster or a region with unexploded devices.

9 Dec 2020

Army Researchers Aim to Improve Quadrotor Drone Performance

When an aircraft veers upwards too much, the decrease in lift and increase in drag may cause the vehicle to suddenly plummet. Known as a stall, this phenomenon has prompted many drone manufacturers to err on the side of extreme caution when they plan their vehicles' autonomous flight movements.

9 Dec 2020

Soybean Maturity Date Predicted with High Accuracy Using Drones and AI

Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to look for plants showing desirable traits, such as early pod maturity.

8 Dec 2020

Army Researchers Identify New Ways to Make Quieter Small Drones

It's no secret the U.S. Army wants its small unmanned aerial systems to operate quietly in densely-populated regions, but tests to achieve this can be expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive according to researchers.

4 Dec 2020

Netted Drone Enclosure Built at University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo consultants first approached Gorilla Netting in early 2019. For over a year, the team at Gorilla Netting worked with consultants and representatives of SUNY, University at Buffalo (UB), to design, engineer, and install a large netted drone enclosure system for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) testing and research.

30 Nov 2020

Drones Could Play a Key role in Improving 5G Network Security

The introduction of the fifth generation mobile network, or 5G, will change the way we communicate, multiply the capacity of the information highways, and allow everyday objects to connect to each other in real time.

19 Nov 2020

Machine Learning Approach Guarantees Robots' Performance in Unfamiliar Settings

A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been trained on a thousand simulated obstacle-laden courses, but it's never seen one like this. Still, nine times out of 10, the pint-sized plane dodges all the obstacles in its path.

18 Nov 2020

USCIA L.L.C. Offers New Drone Service To Help Protect Law Enforcement Using AI.

An Unmanned Aircraft Systems operator, USCIA L.L.C., the leader of geospatial imaging using drones, is excited to announce today a new service that can help revolutionize crisis management for law enforcement.

16 Nov 2020

A Dark Horse on the Crop Sensing Scene?

An Agri-EPI-supported trial of a new crop monitoring service has delivered promising results for Niall Jeffrey of Bielgrange Farm in East Lothian, Scotland.

16 Nov 2020

UK Advanced Drone System Wins New Government Funding to Protect Workers in the Construction Industry During Covid and Beyond

Advance drone system sees.ai, leading a consortium of eight partners that includes global leader Skanska, has won a share of £30 million from the Future Flight Challenge, a proportion of which has been allocated to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

10 Nov 2020