A new thesis by Abdou Fall of the University of Cincinnati explores the use of drones and their assistive capabilities as a framework that could help the people living with a physical disability or ...

Target tracking has been one of the many popular applications that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used for, in a variety of missions from intelligence gathering and surveillance to reconnaissance ...

Recent advancements in drone technology suggest that drones could play a key role in creating farming systems less reliant on insecticides. Parabug, a drone based insect deployment system, propagates ...

0 (0) Nowadays, shadows from buildings, terrain and other elevated features represent the lost and impaired data values, hindering the quality of optical images that is acquired under all but the most ...

Quadcopters are among the most advanced drones on the market. In a new experiment, two authors try to enhance the flight time of these drones – endowing them with special features such as controllable ...

The Chicago Tribune reported an incident about a drone that had crashed into an upper floor of a building east of Michigan Avenue downtown Thursday morning, breaking a window but injuring no one.

Roboticists at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have been experimenting with drones that mimic samara seeds in nature and in a new paper in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ...

Latvian startup AirBoard Inc. has announced the launch of AirBoard AGRO – the first agricultural aerial platform designed for industry-level reliability and precision spraying for vineyards. This ...

New research is working on a practical solution for scenarios of serious injuries such as a hip fracture or head injury to elderly persons as a result of a fall. The proposed advanced first aid system ...

Introducing drone technology in an interactive and interesting manner to the next generation the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) has opened its Rockhampton hangar to school girls wanting to become ...

An Ericsson white paper reports an interesting study on drones and networks with in-depth look at the use of machine learning to separate drones from ground devices. In their paper “Drones and ...

As of 2016 there were approximately 150 million metric tons of plastic in the world’s oceans, per a report by the World Economic Forum. Several attempts are on to contain this pollution hazard.