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New Approach to Enable Autonomous Flying Quadrotors Explore Unknown Environment

A research team led by the University of Zurich has designed a new technique to autonomously fly quadrotors through unknown complex environments at high speed using onboard sensing and computation.

8 Oct 2021

Aquiline Drones Acquires ElluminAI Labs to Deliver Superior AI Frameworks for UAV operations

Apple and Siri. Amazon and Alexa. Microsoft and Cortana. Aquiline Drones and Spartacus. Artificial Intelligence has gained increasing popularity across industries.

16 Sep 2021

CSIRO Team Representing Australia in 'Robot Olympics'

A Brisbane-based team of robotics experts will represent Australia – and the Southern Hemisphere – in the world’s leading robotics competition held in the United States this month.

13 Sep 2021

Robotic Skies and Carbonix Collaborate to Provide International Field Support Program for Customers

Robotic Skies, Inc, a global marketplace for commercial drone maintenance services, and Carbonix, a leading Australian designer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned aerial data capture solutions, are partnering to provide an international field support program for customers who operate Carbonix Volanti and Domani UAVs.

1 Sep 2021

A2Z Drone Delivery Announces Launch of New RDSX Commercial Delivery UAV

A2Z Drone Delivery, LLC, developer of a patented tethered freefall drone delivery mechanism, today announced the launch of its RDSX commercial delivery UAV.

26 Aug 2021

SwRI Receives $34 Million Contract to Continue Developing Autonomous and Robotic Systems for the U.S. Military

Southwest Research Institute received an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract valued at up to $34 million over five years to support the US.

10 Aug 2021

Drone Mapping of Methane Emission Hotspots

A novel new drone system fitted with an array of sensors could assess methane emissions in local areas allowing researchers to zoom in on hotspots for greenhouse gas emissions.

2 Aug 2021

Novel Algorithm to Fly Autonomous Drones Faster than Human Pilots

In a first of its kind attempt, an autonomous flying quadrotor has outperformed two human pilots in a drone race. The achievement is based on a new algorithm developed by researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH).

22 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop New Automated Flight Control System for Drone Swarms

"The project's main objective is to integrate a certain degree of automation, so that an operator can control a small fleet of up to 10 drones from a single ground station," says Luis E. Moreno, LABYRINTH's coordinator and researcher at the UC3M's Robotics Lab.

20 Jul 2021