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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
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Three Honeywell employees have flown five successful T-Hawk missions and captured hours of video and dozens of photos of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. The four RQ-16A T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicles in service at Fukushima have been adapted to carry radiation sensors. This video continues to focus
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Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily is the first American national daily news publication exclusively for the iPad. As part of the drive towards more creative content, the publication has been experimenting with video footage like this shot from a toy unmanned aircraft. The editorial team are using a Parrot
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Datron World Communications has announced several improvements to its Scout unmanned aircraft, including two new payloads and structural enhancements that make the device more durable and sturdier. Regarding the payloads, the company has added a 10X optical zoom camera, and a 5-megapixel “workhorse” camera, said Chris Barter, Scout product
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Brazil's first unmanned anti-drug surveillance aircraft has been grounded since it arrived from Israel more than a month ago because of a lack of fuel. Federal police say that no company has bid to supply fuel, apparently because the contract is too small. The Israeli-made UAS
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The most intense use of the US Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability (NIEC) to date has been by the UAS community, both within the FAA and the broader government and industry community. The NIEC was created so that neither next-generation air transport system'
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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to Mississippi State University for Stark Aerospace to fly the Heron UAS from Golden Triangle Regional Airport (GTRA) in Columbus, Mississippi . Mississippi State University (MSU) is the public sponsor of the COA which specifically allows for the flight of
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will use its two small unmanned Manta aircraft to sniff for black carbon, an agent formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, in the Arctic. The unmanned aircraft are outfitted with sensors to sample the air over the ice