Agriculture
A great deal of work and research remains before agriculture takes full advantage of unmanned aerial vehicles, but tremendous opportunities justify the effort, UAV and ag officials say. "The future is still evolving. Farmers are business people. They can't afford to be making wrong decisions,” said John
Commercial
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding is to employ drones and communications systems from V-cube after a successful trial exploring drone use to enhance productivity and safety in its shipbuilding operations. Over a period of four days from 18 May the companies sought to verify whether it was possible to inspect equipment and
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A drone carrying medical abortion pills is set to fly to Poland, where abortion is severely restricted for women. The ‘abortion drone’ is being sent by not-for-profit organisation Women on Waves - which provides medical abortion pills around the world - in a bid to help Polish women terminate their
Inspections
Dr Ade Abolurin, Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), says the Corps had concluded plans to deploy about 500 UAS and aircraft for proper surveillance of oil installations in the country. Abolurin disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at a meeting with senior officers of the Corps
Inspections
Unmanned aircraft researchers associated with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech tested new sensor technology designed to detect potentially disruptive activities along energy pipeline routes. The flights last week near Farmville, in rural Virginia, involved a fixed-wing RS-20 unmanned aircraft flying beyond the visual line of
Commercial
When a sensor detects a problem within a factory a human worker is usually sent to investigate. CyPhy Works, from Boston, Massachusetts, plans to hook its camera-equipped LVL 1 drones up to Cisco’s DevNet platform so they can complete tasks traditionally done by people in everything from factories
Commercial
A new drone from Parrot does double duty, flying through the air like any other quadcopter but converting in a snap to propel a small hydrofoil boat. By attaching the drone perpendicular to the body of the boat, the gadget sends its thrust rearward instead of down, causing the boat
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A drone is being developed to survey the interior of reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant. The unmanned aircraft will use lasers to detect and avoid obstacles in flight and will be able to land to replace its batteries in the absence of an
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Scientists wanting to know what sea otters eat while floating far from shore have turned to the sky. During an April mission in Kachemak Bay, researchers tested unmanned drones to see if they could be used for future sea otter surveys. The project also used drones to study the prevalence
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Aviation enthusiasts across Australia are gathering in derelict warehouses to race custom-built drones in a new sport that is flying under the strict laws that regulate the aircraft. At an abandoned warehouse in Melbourne's west, about 30 drone racers have gathered for a high-speed showdown. They
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“With this technology you can create a 3D terrain analysis model of the real world, give it to any engineer and they can put that into a CAD-like program and build whatever it is they’re going to build from their desktop, without ever going into the field,”
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Every year, illegal logging and mining in the Peruvian Amazon destroy tens of thousands of acres of rain forest. The deforestation in remote parts of the jungle is difficult to detect while it's going on. But now there's a new way to keep an eye out: