Researchers of the SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missions.
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Researchers at the University of Zurich and the Delft University of Technology have found that information from onboard cameras can be used to stabilize a drone and keep it flying autonomously after one rotor suddenly gives out.
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Davantage de surveillance par drones, d’applications de terrain et de processus automatisés rythment les interventions de la Gendarmerie nationale, utilisatrice et contributrice d’outils libres.
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Attempts at airborne retrieval of three unmanned air vehicles, nicknamed Gremlins, were just inches from success in DARPA’s latest flight test series that started on October 28. Each X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV) flew for more than two hours, successfully validating all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features.
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Joby Aviation, a transportation company developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft, which it intends to operate as early as 2023, today announced that it has acquired Uber Elevate. Earlier Uber sold its autonomous taxi business. The two companies have also agreed to integrate their respective services into each other’s apps, enabling integration between ground and air travel for future customers.
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Percepto, provider of autonomous inspection by industrial robotics, announced a strategic investment of $45 million led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) to launch a solution for remote, fully autonomous, asset monitoring, inspection and compliance of industrial sites. This includes the partnering of autonomous robots with drones.
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Drone delivers cold chain medicines in rural North Carolina
Volansi, vendor of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), middle-mile drone delivery services, has begun a commercial healthcare drone delivery project in North Carolina. In collaboration with Merck Volansi is piloting the delivery of cold chain medicines from Merck’s Wilson, N.C. manufacturing site to Vidant Healthplex-Wilson, a Vidant Health clinic, as the first of three phases in a project to learn about drone technology’s role and ability to improve access to healthcare.
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The pandemic has seen the country pulling together, with organisations across the space sector stepping forward to help. Apian, part of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, aims to establish a network of secure air corridors for electric drones to navigate via satellite-enabled GPS. Each drone will be able to carry COVID-19 samples, test-kits and PPE. This will avoid courier call-out waiting times, free-up NHS staff, reduce unnecessary physical contact and minimise the risk of secondary transmission of the virus.