Tag: Drones

August 18, 2017

The Japanese government is eyeing 2020 to begin promoting exports of a GPS technology accurate to a several centimeters. This should help services that need pinpoint accuracy clamoring for the system. An H-IIA rocket carrying the Michibiki No. 3 quasi-zenith satellite […]

June 20, 2017

Researchers at The University of California Santa Barbara have developed a system that allows a pair of drones working together to see through walls. The technique, which uses nothing but standard Wi-Fi signals and off-the-shelf components, was invented by researchers […]

May 31, 2017

Amazon, the eCommerce giant in the U.S., has received a patent for a shipping label that can be embedded in a parachute so that packages can land softly when they are dropped by a drone or other aircraft. According to […]

March 1, 2017

Snap Inc. has been playing with drones. The New York Times reported Tuesday that the company has worked on building its own drones, citing three people “briefed on the project who asked to remain anonymous because the details are confidential.” […]

January 3, 2017

What’s more important than the privacy of Amazon’s customers in the beginnings of the drone era? The safety of the drones from Amazon customers. Amazon filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that documents the methods and […]

December 30, 2016

TRNDlabs, located in the Netherlands, is an international brand focusing on innovative products. Their brand hit the market in late 2016 with an impressive line of nanodrones. The online media received the SKEYE nanodrones well. Featuring SKEYE Mini Drone with […]

October 17, 2016

The US Navy’s new robotic ships and drones will initially be put into fleet operations that free up ships and planes for more critical tasks The 130-foot anti-submarine medium-displacement trimaran does not seek to replace anything a destroyer is doing, […]

October 5, 2016

If you want 5G, there’s a good chance you’ll need a small cell nearby to deliver it. Putting up that cell may be hard because of a host of problems, but Nokia Bell Labs thinks it can solve some of […]

October 4, 2016

Facebook is in talks with several countries for trial broadcasts of internet content from high-flying drones, underscoring the social media company’s push to provide bandwidth to poorly connected parts of the globe. Several companies aim to provide bandwidth to far-flung […]

September 16, 2016

We hear  of new cool gadgets every day – and we tend to take it for granted that everywhere in the world scientists and designers continuously set on the market exciting new technologies, devices and objects, more or less useful […]

August 5, 2016

The White House Office of Science and Technology held a conference on Tuesday to discuss the future of commercial drone use and announced several initiatives to encourage its growth. “We need to incorporate unmanned aircraft and their users into our […]

July 18, 2016

The fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market. A growing ecosystem of drone software and hardware vendors […]

July 14, 2016

AT&T has announced that it is currently experimenting with drones in order to make its network better. The carrier is currently using them for cell tower inspections and to gather real-time information, and in the future it may use them […]

July 11, 2016

Drone technology is developing so quickly—and morphing into commercial uses never before contemplated—that aviation regulators are having trouble keeping pace. Air-safety authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have acknowledged that traditional rule making is too slow and rigid to […]

June 22, 2016

Commercial drone pilots in the US will need to submit to criminal background checks before obtaining permission to fly, according to newly finalized rules for unmanned aircraft released Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration. The new rules contain several restrictions […]

June 6, 2016

The fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market. A growing ecosystem of drone software and hardware vendors […]

May 9, 2016

Commercial aviation was born in the later years of World War I, and so too was the need for air traffic control. With a sudden post-war excess of military aircraft, Britain and France began converting their light, reliable bombers into […]

April 22, 2016

The drone industry is booming and not just for the companies making the small flying machines. In Australia alone, experts estimate there is something in the vicinity of 50,000 commercial and recreational drones out there. That’s 50,000 opportunities for one to […]

February 24, 2016

Millions of drones, roaming the earth. No, it’s not a scene from The Terminator—it’s an example of what fifth-generation, or 5G, networking will eventually enable. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich used a small drone as a prop during a Monday panel […]

February 12, 2016

A piece of legislation that would exempt small drones from almost all upcoming Federal Aviation Administration regulations has been attached to an FAA funding bill in Congress, a version of which must pass before the end of March. The “Micro […]