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U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it’s Office of Air and Marine's Unmanned Aircraft System programme has achieved a historic milestone, exceeding 10,000 flight hours. Unveiled in 2005, the highly capable and proven Predator B UAS supports CBP’s primary mission of securing the
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Microdrone MD4-1000 QuadRotors helped film this impressive footage in Kenya, where they are able to hover above herds from a privileged vantage point. Source: Gizmodo
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For six years Gene Robinson has been building UAS and using them to help dozens of public safety agencies across Texas, in search, rescue and recovery missions, and also helping fight wildfires. The four-pound UAS called Spectra roams the sky and scours the earth. It climbs hundreds of feet,
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The University of Queensland in New Zealand is Skycam UAV 's first international customer, purchasing two Kahu unmanned aircraft systems to conduct surveillance of mined land rehabilitation. "They were amazed they could get what they wanted in such a short amount of time," Skycam UAV director Rene
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Chris Anderson shows off his open source UAS developed by the online community at DIYDrones at the annual Maker Faire held San Mateo, California last weekend on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. Organized by the staff of MAKE magazine, makezine.com and craftzine.com, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair
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Aerobat Aviation Inc and Attopilot International have teamed up to add an autopilot to the innovative circular flying wing design. Aerobat Aviation, Inc was created to produce individual entities within the business that deploy and service systems based on the circular wing aircraft, called the "GeoBAT". The Company
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Despite seeking permission from the state government last year for procuring an unmanned aircraft for surveillance of traffic in the metropolis, the Mumbai Police has now backed out saying they do not want the system as of now, as its maintenance is difficult. The refusal comes months after the state
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Beijing Police plan to purchase unmanned aircraft to monitor emergency situations such as traffic accidents, a top official has said. The unmanned aircraft may be used to monitor traffic accidents, conduct aerial surveillance or help with rescue operations, said Jia Shengwen of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Authorities would
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Adept Technology announced that it will add an aerial robot to its range of land-based wheeled mobile platforms. The products from Adept MobileRobots group were showcased at the IEEE ICRA 2011 Conference, which was held at the Shanghai International Convention Centre in Shanghai, China from May 9-13, 2011.
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An international research team, including scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle, completed a series of unmanned flights over the Arctic on April 30. The team is investigating the potential role of black carbon, or soot, in the rapidly changing Arctic climate. Also participating in the Coordinated
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AeroSeeker launched its highly portable, four-rotor, unmanned aircraft with high quality video surveillance and aerial video streaming capabilities at the International Defence Fair in Singapore. Engineered according to the needs of both military and civil users, the flagship model, AERO-405 can be easily carried and set up, ready
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This is what footage shot from a Parrot AR.Drone really looks like... ! It turns out that the footage that we published last week from Rupert Murdoch's 'The Daily', was indeed professional, as reader David Wray suspected. When we contacted Perspective Aerials about their involvment in