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Tag Archives: uav
MQ-9 Reaper is the Badass of Military Drones (video)
War is not a video game…but it’s starting to look more and more like one. The prevalence of unmanned aerial [...]
Posted in AI, Singularity
Tagged Afghanistan, Creech AFB, drones, General Atomics, hunter killer, MQ-9, Predator, Reaper, uav, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicle, war 2.0
9 Comments
Video of Navy Laser Shooting Unmanned Drone Out of the Sky
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Supe—ZZZT! Well, whatever it was, it’s fried now. [...]
Posted in AI, Singularity
Tagged C-RAM, laser phalanx, laser system, phalanx, raytheon, uav, US Navy
7 Comments
Autonomous Quad-copter Flies Through Windows and Kicks Ass (video)
Occasionally we see robots that are so awesome that we wonder why they haven’t conquered the world yet. So it [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged autonomous, Daniel Mellinger, GRASP, Nathan Michaels, quadcopter, quadrotor, uav, University of Pennsylvania, unmanned aerial vehicle, UPENN, Vijay Kumar
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Stanford UAV Can Land and Take Off From the Side of a Wall (Video)
Stanford’s latest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can do something I’ve never seen before: land on and take off from a [...]
Amazing Monocopter Flies With Just One Wing (Video)
The University of Maryland has produced a flying machine with only one wing – a monocopter! Evan Ulrich, its PhD [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged darpa, Evan Ulrich, maple seed, MAV, micro aerial vehicle, monocopter, nano-air vehicle program, samara, uav, University of Maryland, Unmanned aerial vehicles
4 Comments
Flying Drones for Your Home from DIY Drones (Video)
So apparently building a military style drone is a do-it-yourself project now. DIY Drones is an online community that helps [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots
Tagged Chris Anderson, DIY Drones, do it yourself, open source, open source hardware, uav, Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Commanding Military Drones – Now iPhone Has an App for That
If you’ve got drones in different area codes, iPhone has an app for that. MIT’s Human and Automation Lab (HAL) [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots
Tagged App, application, drone, hal, iPhone, MAV, Missy Cummings, MIT, raven, remote controlled, uav, war
11 Comments
Robot Hummingbird Ready for Spy Missions – Video
We’ve seen countless spy movies where the fearless protagonist is being tracked by video cameras shaped like owls or robotic [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged hummingbird, nano uav, nanobot, robot, robotic flight, robotics, small robot, uav
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Wired For War: The Rise of Robotic Armies
P.W. Singer just launched his latest book titled Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. [...]