drones

Farmers Insurance announced that it will use a digitally controlled mobile robot for in-field catastrophe claims handling and non-catastrophe property inspections, making it one of the first national P&C insurers to deploy a robotic…

Integrating a level of automation to control up to 10 drones from a single ground station was the goal of researchers at the UC3M's Robotics Lab. The project involves an operator designating missions to be undertaken and a system…

Human professional drone pilots are expert at using drones in search and rescue, building inspection, cargo delivery—applications where speed is critical. The drone’s limited battery life means that no matter what they face-- going through…

It’s all about practical applications and the researchers found a good one—autonomous gas source localization. Simply, rapidly finding gas leaks in a large building or industrial site without risking human firefighters. The researchers…

Recently the DARPA Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program demonstrated a Counter-Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) multilayer defense architecture at Eglin Air Force Base. The goal—to defeat unauthorized drone intrusions over military…

Drones are a key market that impacts many different aspects of industry and commercial use cases. IDTechEx's new report covers the hardware, software, sensors, and use cases for this key industry in ‘Drone Market and Industries 2021-2041’.

Opteran just raised seed funding in the amount of £2.1 million to launch a radical lightweight, low-cost silicon-based approach to autonomy called Natural Intelligence. The company had its roots in eight years of insect-brain research…

We lose about 13 million forest hectares per year, and of the 45% of our world’s original forest cover, most has been cleared within the last century. And when we lose forest cover, we also lose species biodiversity, as forest inhabitants…

COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way the world works—in some cases permanently. And, in a sense, some of the changes have even been for the better—particularly some of the new uses we’re finding for technology. Some of the coolest…

Drones are wonderful things, with so many beneficial, cost-effective applications. But there are always those who want to take advantage of a good thing, and the malicious use of drones has halted flights, created sticky privacy issues, and…