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MIT Engineers Design Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles that can Fly Over Longer Durations

When phone and Internet systems across a broad area are disrupted during a natural calamity, communications payloads offering temporary telecommunications coverage to the people in need can be carried by means of autonomous aircraft hovering over the affected area.

7 Jun 2017

NASA Selects BluHaptics to Improve Remote Robotic Operations in Space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected BluHaptics to receive new grant funding to apply its proprietary software to remote robotic operations in space. Synchronizing what a robot sees and does through advanced applications of real-time modeling, force feedback and machine learning, BluHaptics' software addresses the challenges of latency, spatial awareness and control that have long limited robots' effectiveness in space.

25 Apr 2017

Georgia Tech Team Secures First Place in Drone Racing National Championship

The top trophy at the Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship held on April 15th at Purdue University was received by three engineering students.

20 Apr 2017

New High-Performance Platform Boosts the Future of Commercial Drone Applications

On Apr 12, 2017, PrecisionHawk, a provider of enhanced commercial drone technologies, announced that it will work in partnership with Corning Incorporated in order to sell the Corning® microHSI™ 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera merged with PrecisionHawk's platform for drone data collection and analysis.

13 Apr 2017

Researchers Demonstrate First Complete Sabotage Attack on 3D Printed Drone Propeller

A group of researchers from three universities combined their skills to demonstrate the first complete sabotage attack on a 3D additive manufacturing (AM) system, describing the way a cyber attack and malicious manipulation of blueprints can seriously damage production of a machine or device.

21 Oct 2016

New UAS Rule Provides Easier Path for Commercial Drone Operators to Secure FAA Certification

The recent changes to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a significant development because commercial drone operators will no longer require Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval by exemption, which has typically taken months to secure.

21 Oct 2016

WVU Engineering Students Win $750,000 Top Prize in NASA's Robotics Competition

NASA just recently held this year's Robotics contest last week and a group of ten Engineering Students from West Virginia University won a whopping $750,000 which was given last week in Massachusetts' Worchester Polytechnic Institute, as reported by ABC News.

14 Sep 2016

MIT’s REXIS to Help Spacecraft Identify Locations for Collecting Asteroid Sample

An SUV-sized spacecraft, loaded with instruments and an extendable robotic arm, will soon be barreling toward a space rock, on a round-trip journey that promises to return an unprecedented souvenir: extraterrestrial soil, taken directly from an asteroid, that could hold clues to the very early universe.

8 Sep 2016

World-First Research Finds Technical Problems Rather than Operator Errors Behind Majority of Drone Accidents

Researchers Dr Graham Wild and Dr Glenn Baxter from RMIT University’s School of Engineering, along with John Murray from Edith Cowan University, completed the first examination of more than 150 reported civil incidents around the world involving drones, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS).

24 Aug 2016

Space Center Houston, NineSigma Announce Launch of NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

Building homes on Mars and interplanetary travel are no longer the stuff of science fiction; the latest achievements in robotics are putting these dreams within our reach.

18 Aug 2016

Aerospace Robotics News

MIT Engineers Design Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles that can Fly Over Longer Durations

NASA Selects BluHaptics to Improve Remote Robotic Operations in Space

Georgia Tech Team Secures First Place in Drone Racing National Championship

New High-Performance Platform Boosts the Future of Commercial Drone Applications

Researchers Demonstrate First Complete Sabotage Attack on 3D Printed Drone Propeller

New UAS Rule Provides Easier Path for Commercial Drone Operators to Secure FAA Certification

WVU Engineering Students Win $750,000 Top Prize in NASA's Robotics Competition

MIT’s REXIS to Help Spacecraft Identify Locations for Collecting Asteroid Sample

World-First Research Finds Technical Problems Rather than Operator Errors Behind Majority of Drone Accidents

Space Center Houston, NineSigma Announce Launch of NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

ISS Crew Tackles Health, Robotics, and System Upgrades to Support Long-Duration Missions

PandemicLLM:AI Tool Predicts COVID-19 Spread Accurately

ABB Robotics and Mettler-Toledo International Inc. Join Forces to Accelerate Global Adoption of Flexible Lab Automation

Tiny Robot Duo Could Change the Way We Inspect Complex Machinery

Guided by Light and Scent, Fruit Flies Become Tiny Robotic Workers

AI Governance Frameworks for Scientific Applications

Inside the Cross-Sector Collaborations Driving AI in Biotech

Drone Regulations Around the World: What You Need to Know

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Resurrecting Ancient Cephalopods with Robots