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Study of hawks' pursuit of prey could help scientists capture rogue drones
Jun 11, 2019 (UPI)
Falcons track their prey a lot like a heat-seeking missiles honing in on a target -- they follow a streamlined trajectory, capturing airborne prey. But hawks mu...
Amazon says drone deliveries coming 'within months'
Jun 05, 2019 (AFP)
Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon's consumer operations, told the company's Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space conference in Las Vegas that drones would ...
Insitu nabs $47.9M to deliver ScanEagle drones to four U.S. allies in Asia
Jun 03, 2019 (UPI)
The Boeing subsidiary will provide 12 aircraft for Malaysia, 8 for Indonesia, 8 for the Philippines and six for Vietnam, the U.S. Department of Defense announce...
General Atomics awarded $36.4M for drone, intelligence work in Afghanistan
May 31, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday, provides for nine months of Group 5 unmanned air system intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services. The air syste...
Northrop Grumman nabs $65M for drones for Navy, Australia
May 30, 2019 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, calls for long-lead production components for three Lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft. The contra...
'Neural Lander' uses AI to land drones smoothly
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
At Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), artificial intelligence experts have teamed up with control experts to develop a system that...
Vestas launches massive drone-based blade inspection campaign
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
For this important campaign, time is of the essence. The blades of the 1,250 Vestas turbines located across Sweden and Finland must be inspected by the end of J...
Citadel Defense awarded contract to prevent UAV attacks at sensitive government locations
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
Government officials, security figureheads, and military leadership are extremely concerned about frequent illegal flights buzzing over Washington DC and New Yo...
US warns Chinese drones may steal data: report
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
The Department of Homeland Security sent out an alert on Monday flagging drones built in China as a "potential risk to an organization's information", CNN repor...
Northrop Grumman awarded $163.6M to support Army's Hunter drone
May 13, 2019 (UPI)
The company will operate, engineer, reconfigure and maintain the unmanned aerial systems as part of the new contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. Wor...
Hummingbird robot uses AI to soon go where drones can't
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
Purdue University researchers have engineered flying robots that behave like hummingbirds, trained by machine learning algorithms based on various techniques th...
Textron nabs $20.7M contract modification for Navy drone program
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
According to the Department of Defense, this week's deal modifies a deal originally awarded in September 2014 for work on the UISS, which consists of a mine cou...
Obstacles to overcome before operating fleets of drones becomes reality
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
With so many applications for the technology, an Iowa State University researcher says the next step is to expand capacity by deploying fleets of drones. But ma...
Boeing's MQ-25 refueling drone moved to air base for flight testing
May 01, 2019 (UPI)
With assistance from law enforcement in both states, a truck carried the aircraft -- which is the size of an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter -- from Boeing's techni...
Europe's First Hydrogen Drone Doubles Flying Times with AMS Cylinders
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
The e-Drone Zero is a powerful, long endurance quadcopter designed for the commercial market. It features a compact, custom military grade frame, and is powered...
Iris Automation offers turnkey collision-avoidance solution for commercial drones
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
Providing the "eyes and brain" for drones, Casia enables missions beyond visual line of sight. For the first time, there's a system that allows an Unmanned Airc...
Ballard Launches Turnkey Fuel Cell Solutions to Power Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
FCair includes an industry-leading hydrogen fuel cell power system, hydrogen storage vessels, pressure regulators, refueling solutions and hydrogen gas supply. ...
Ascent AeroSystems Announces New Industrial Grade Drone and Launch Customer
May 01, 2019 (SPX)
"Bulky, fragile and unable to fly in bad weather, today's 'industrial' drones are not well-suited for mission-critical operations. Damage from normal handling a...
NASC TigerShark-XP UAV Receives FAA Experimental Certification
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
The TigerShark-XP has been assigned to research and development projects such as aircraft anti-ice and de-ice projects, detect-and-avoid development, National A...
Google-linked firm wins US approval for drone deliveries
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
A number of companies have been testing drone delivery systems around the world for everything from food delivery to crop spraying as they aim to win over regul...
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