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suggesting that if a strike were to happen the use of F-18 strike fighter jets

F-22the US's most sophisticated fighter the F-22 Raptor, has yet to see combat.

critics point out it is designed primarily as an air-to-air fighter. Another issue is that flight restrictions on the F-22 were lifted just earlier this year after concerns over pilot oxygen deprivation,

ISIS in Iraq and Syria Turkish fighter jets have struck Kurdistan Workersparty (PKK) and Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria and Iraq yesterday.

The leadership of Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has condemned Turkish air strikes against positions of Kurdish fighters in its autonomous region,

In a coordinated move, Turkish police have been rounding up hundreds of suspected Kurdish fighters in cities

the Kurdish fighters group operating against ISIS inside northern Syria. he conclusion of an agreement between Turkey and the U s.-led anti-ISIS coalition to open Turkish airbases for coalition aircraft conducting

Nonetheless, a sustained Turkish effort against ISIS networks in Turkey and northern Syria combined with the efforts of local anti-ISIS Syrian opposition forces has the potential to significantly disrupt the foreign fighter flows

But Gupta and his landlubbing team had no idea that a search for F-18 would identify not only images of a fighter jet but also of F18-class catamarans.

#Swarms of tiny drones built to spy on hurricanes University of Florida Posted by Cindy Spence-Florida on June 5 2013u.

#CNN gets go-ahead to use drones in newsgathering News media heavyweight CNN has reached an agreement with the Federal aviation administration (FAA) designed to usher in the use of drones in newsgathering and reporting.

while the government agency says the initiative will help to inform its drone policy moving forward."

to others it may seem a little overdue with the FAA still outlawing drone use for commercial purposes.

the Professional society of Drone Journalists has pushed for the establishment of an official framework for drone journalism,

the company will look to use drones to open up new possibilities in videography.""Our aim is to get beyond hobby-grade equipment

Semi-autonomous telemarketing connects nicely with the developments it parallels in the drone world.#####Ventriloquistic telemarketing##has a nice, multisyllabic ring, too.

#Mclaren aims to replace windshield wipers with fighter jet technology A new wiper-free windshield is being developed by Mclaren.

The car company, Mclaren is designing a sports car that uses a system adapted from fighter jets to keep a driver s vision clear in bad weather without the need for blades.##

#UPS researching drones to compete with Amazon Prime Air UPS researching delivery drones. Amazon made headlines

when it announced it was working on small drones that could deliver customers packages in half an hour or less someday.

and evaluating different approaches to drone delivery. Asked for a comment, a company spokesman said that,

##The commercial use of drones is an interesting technology and we ll continue to evaluate it.

a law professor specializing in drones and robotics.####If you want to compete in logistics and delivery,

drones and unmanned robots have to be part of the conversation about where things are headed.####So far UPS has kept quiet about its plans,

perhaps because any drone delivery project is years away from being legal and operational. For Jeff Bezos, on the other hand##who admitted that his#drone fleet probably won t be available for some time##the news was timed perfectly to hit on Cyber Monday, driving tons of free publicity to Amazon on the biggest online shopping day of the year.

UPS has a number of different ways it might utilize drones. It could offer something similar to Amazon s Prime Air,

or it might use them to help move packages around its own warehouses. Calo was skeptical of the video offered up by Amazon

where a drone drops off a package in a family s suburban driveway.####I think from both a tech

##But a company like UPS could use drones to bring packages quickly and cheaply from a major airport or city to pick-up centers in more remote locations, speeding up delivery for a lot of customers.##

##Others in the industry are more bullish on how quickly a drone delivery service could be up and running.

According to Colin Guinn, the North american CEO for the drone manufacturer DJI,##A company like Amazon or UPS could have a safe, operational fleet in 18-24 months,##he tellsthe Verge.##

but he hopes it will allow his prototype to evolve into a new generation of very small and inexpensive drones.

miniature drone. Of course, any practically useful version of the jellyfish would have to carry a small battery and a navigation system##right now,

and he isn t comfortable with the Obama administration s use of drones. But, he said,

##Having good drones could, overall, save lives also. I know it s a big, thorny issue.##

NSA now plans to watch you with super tiny drones Black Hornet Flying insects have one huge advantage over humans:

so it makes sense to create a#similarly sized drone#for stealth military missions.####Clocking in at a tiny eight-inches long and 2. 1 ounces light,

The pocket-sized drones, which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week,

meaning the#drone#can travel nearly 4, 000 feet in one go. Images and camera feed are sent to a seven-inch wide mobile device supplied in the PD 100 kit,

The drone is pretty near invisible at 30 feet high, making it perfect for quick bouts of stealth surveillance.

and tweaking the drone for the ultimate stealth insect. Now I just need to get a hold of one to spy on my teenage sister

Experimental projects are even testing how to dispatch farm drones (crop-spying quadcopters for example) that measure everything from reflectivity to water loss to optimize the efficiency of a farm operations. rom our perspective:

#A rescue drone that finds survivors by tracking their mobile phone signals The drone can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet.

The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne have developed a drone that can pinpoint the location of a mobile phone by picking up its Wi-fi signal.

Video) The drone, which was reported first by Robohub, can pick out the location of an individual phone within 30 feet.

The drone tracks how strong a signal is; a weaker signal can indicate that a person is trapped deeper down, giving rescue crews a 3d picture of where to search.

Drones are also already being used in search operations. They can also track heat signatures, helping rescue crews quickly spot a warm human being among an expanse of trees or snow.

Judges ruled earlier this week that a Texas search nonprofit could continue using drones after objections from the FAA.

The drone could also be used to provide Wi-fi if infrastructure was knocked out by a disaster,

Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones and satellites to provide internet connectivity to remote corners of the world where installing internet cables is especially difficult.

The EPFL team noted its work underscores confidentiality issues with drones as its aircraft can pull phones Wi-fi network names and MAC addresses.

#World s first riot-control drone fires pepper spray and paintballs at protesters Skunk drone South africa-based Desert Wolf, the maker of a drone that fires pepper spray bullets,

He added that the ITUC would now try to identify which company had ordered the drones.

Blinding lasers Desert Wolf s website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets

the Defence Web news site has published a photo of the drone after it was unveiled at a security trade show near Johannesburg in May.

Guy Martin, the editor of Defence Web, said he believed the drone was unique. The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,

is concerned that the deployment of such drones riskscreeping authoritarianism and the suppression of protest. Firing plastic balls or bullets from the air will maim and kill,

We urgently need an investigation by the international community before these drones are used d

#Vessyl: A smart cup that tracks everything you drink Vessyl. There are a lot of fitness and health trackers on the market today:

and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.

Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.

Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.

or AI, research and machine ethics communities were quick to applaud the grant. ith drones,

The sophistication of cutting-edge drones like British BAESYSTEMS batwing-shaped Taranis and Northrop grumman X-47b reveal more self-direction creeping into ever more heavily armed systems.

He been highly critical of armed drones in general . and has argued that autonomous weapons systems cannot be trusted to conform to international law. do not think that they will end up with a moral or ethical robot,

Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field (for example, by using infrared light).

#Facebook and Google are drooling over drone companies Last month it seemed as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace

and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world. It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,

and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta. And an answer to the question of how exactly the two Silicon valley giants will leverage their new technology?

Facebook isn breaking new ground by getting into commercialized drone technology, Bünger says, just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition,

Drones are one means of doing so. UAS are also a means of bypassing mobile carriers,

If Facebook does follow through with its ambitious plans to connect the next billion people through Facebook-owned Internet drones

and other companies threaten to do, at least with regard to drones. or Facebook and Google and those guys,

At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of

The acquisitions certainly have the attention of the rest of the drone industry, which now largely consists of small,

With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,

it seems a foregone conclusion at this point that more drone technology acquisitions are in the offing,

both of these drone acquisitions by Facebook and Google; a lot of this technology that has to do with wearables;

#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology

solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.

The New mexico-based company has been working on the development of solar-powered drones designed to fly unmanned

Solar-powered drones are an attractive proposition to company like Google and Facebook because of their reliability and stability in often adverse weather conditions.

Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,

Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels

The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model, the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.

said drone expert Patrick Egan. At night you are not collecting energy from the sun

However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,

#U s. Navy s newest warship is a drone The U s. Navy will christen its newest class of destroyers this month.

Think of it as a gigantic floating drone: ost UAVS unmanned aerial vehicles are a few million dollars, says Wade Knudson,

Unlike aerial drones, however, the Zumwalt will still have a human crew and it will know how to anticipate their needs.

Perhaps the greatest comfort for those who fear the idea of an agile, 15,000-ton naval drone with stealth technology and missiles is won that there be too many of them.

And of course there are drones. While many get their orders directly from a human operator, unmanned aircraft operated by Israel,

One tiny drone the Raven is primarily a surveillance vehicle but among its capabilities is arget acquisition.

The U s. sometimes programs its semi-autonomous drones to locate a terrorist based on his cell phone SIM CARD.

#Autonomous drones flock like birds Autonomous drone flock The first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock has been created by Hungarian researchers.#

Drones are designed typically to fly alone, and although other research groups have created flocks before, Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.

According to Vicsek, the only other truly autonomous drone flock was created in 2011 by robotics researcher Dario Floreano at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne1.

By contrast, his drones can coordinate their movements to form rotating rings or straight lines. If Vicsek tells them that they face a wall with a gap in it,

and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another or overshoot their mark.

The drones did not flock successfully until the team managed to speed up their reaction times a challenge that Floreano

the drones communicate among themselves via radio, but that sometimes leads to jammed signals. Fitting them with cameras might provide a workaround.

and destroy enemy drones and small boats, should the need arise. The 30-kilowatt laser weapon system (Laws) is housed aboard the USS Ponce,

which will knock out the sensors or control systems on an enemy drone or vessel. If the adversary still doesn't get the hint,

The laser weapon also shot a small drone out of the sky according to Navy officials.""We ran this particular weapon, a prototype, through some extremely tough paces,

And in 2012, Laws downed several drones during a naval test of the system t

Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.

What It Like to Ride in a Fighter jet? Find Outoddly, the research has a connection to another focal point of conspiracy theoristshe 9-11 attacks.

In cases where images with greater resolution are needed the pair plan to use aerial imagery from drones provided local aviation and privacy laws permit.

Developing cybersecurity policy frameworks for autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars; andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.

package-delivering drones, and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,

In one scenario, the team is looking into the role of drones in fighting forest fires. Such drones may one day be used both to survey

and to squelch fires first observing a fire effect on various types of vegetation, then identifying and putting out those fires that are most likely to spread.

To make fire-fighting drones a reality the team is first testing the possibility virtually.

In addition to projecting a drone intentions, the researchers can also project landscapes to simulate an outdoor environment.

shown from an aerial perspective to simulate a drone view as if it were flying over treetops.

the team plans to use the system to test drone performance in package-delivery scenarios.

It s very similar to fighter jets which are made unstable so that you can maneuver them easily she says.

#Making drones more customizable A first-ever standard perating systemfor drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design

Today, hundreds of companies worldwide are making drones for infrastructure inspection, crop-and livestock-monitoring,

and application-specific software to add to commercial drones for multiple purposes. The key component is the startup Linux-based autopilot device,

a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,

who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT. To customize the drones customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators,

and communication devices configure settings, and apply their configuration to a fleet. Other software helps them plan

and monitor missions in real time (and make midflight adjustments), and collects and displays data. Airware then pushes all data to the cloud,

If a company decides to use a surveillance drone for crop management, for instance, it can easily add software that stitches together different images to determine which areas of a field are overwatered

Delta Drone in France is using the platform for open-air mining operations, search-and-rescue missions,

Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,

and infrastructure with drones that require specific cameras and sensors as potential early customers. A company from scratch Airware roots date to 2005,

Phd 3 to build drones for an intercollegiate competition. At the time, drones were used primarily for military surveillance,

powered by a lack boxthat could essentially fly the drones and control the camera. There were also a handful of open-source projects made by hobbyists that let people modify drones

but the code was tweaked unreliable when. f you wanted to do anything novel, your hands were tied,

Downey says. The group decision: build a drone from scratch. But their advisor, Jonathan How, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics who directs of the Aerospace Controls Laboratory,

told them that required too much time, and would cost them the competition. e said, oue right,

A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,

Not much of the early MIT drone designs made it into the final Airware platform. ut building that early drone at MIT

the development of a standard operating system for drones is analogous to Intel processors and Microsoft DOS paving the way for personal computers in the 1980s.

without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,

Downey says. here are 600 companies building differing versions of drone hardware. We think they need the Intel processor of the drones,

if you will, and that operating system-level software component, too like the DOS for drones.

The benefits are far-reaching, Downey says: rone companies, for instance, want to build drones and tailor them for different applications without having to build everything from scratch,

he says. But companies developing cameras, sensors, and communication links for drones also stand to benefit,

he adds, as their components will need only to be compatible with a single platform. Additionally, it could help the Federal aviation administration (FAA) better assess the reliability of drones;

Congress recently tasked the agency with compiling UAV rules and regulations by 2015. This could also help promote commercial drone use in the United states,

which lags behind other countries around the world, primarily in Europe, Downey says. ather than see a world where there 500 drones flying overhead,

and every drone has different software and electronics, it good for the FAA if all of them had reliable and common hardware and software,

he says. e think it valuable for everybody. n

#Manual control When you imagine the future of gesture-control interfaces, you might think of the popular science-fiction films inority Report (2002) or ron Man (2008).

The laser s compact design would allow it to be mounted on a fighter jet. With the Terablade technology Huang says The sky is the limit literally y

after the Explorer release, Aguilar says Bounce Imaging may option its image-stitching technology for drones, video games, movies,

I am sure a great many Popsci readers are thinking this at the same time I'm typing it Attachã this to a drone for remote scouting in 3d!

And to keep the weight down for processing this data the data could just be beam back to the drone remote site to be processed there.

Police force will be replaced with drone copters that taze you and fly off to prisons without hallways

#How David Schmale Tracks Airborne Microbes With Drones Each year Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten.

An associate professor of food safety and plant biosecurity at Virgina Tech Schmale sends drones armed with petri dishes into the atmosphere to capture airborne crop pathogens.

so he'll be sending his drones into them to collect samples. If clouds provide a longer-term reservoir of bacteria

#Navy Demonstrates Swarm Of Armed Robot Boats Call them sea drones dronaughts or roboats the Navy demonstrated a swarm of remotely-controlled boats on the James river In virginia this August.

#Facebook Says Wi-fi Drones Will be sized Jumbo jet If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...

Facebook wants to spread Wi-fi Internet to unconnected parts of the world with drones and at#a summit in New york earlier this week the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo jets.

In March of 2014 Facebook acquired drone maker Ascenta whose solar-powered drones could potentially#remain airborne at 65000 feet for months or years at a time.

Ascenta's web page has disappeared since the acquisition leaving only a goodbye notice in Facebook-blue.#

#To make this project fly Facebook plans on testing one of the drones over American skies by 2015 hoping to#have the project off the ground in three to five years.

While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones:

#Snake Robots And A Quadcopter Fuse Together In this Chimera Drone Rescue robots are better when they travel in packs.

Quadcopter drones can quickly fly over and around obstacles but once on the ground they can t too much besides take off again.

A new chimera-like creation from the Modular Robotics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania combines two snakebots and one quadcopter into a sort of drone superorganism bringing rescue robots together

The drone#is designed explicitly as an alternative to stronger heavier robots that use force to power over rubble.

Roboticist Stella Latscha led the team of researchers that presented the drone last week at the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.

According to#the U s. Naval Institute both the Navy and the Air force want their next generation air superiority fighter to have Artificial intelligence.

The F-X is a fighter concept in development to replace the Air force s current top dog#the stealthy F-22 Raptor

Boeing s Phantom Works are developing the F/A-XX Advanced Navy Strike Fighter to replace their own F/A-18 Super hornet

The Navy s own X-47b experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.

Bringing the artificial intelligence inside the cockpit is one major way robots will fly alongside humans in fighters of the future--but it s not the only one.

#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.

The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible

The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.

For the drone it works fine and the design lets the wing fly fast like a plane.

It also means the drone can hover and that s where the delivery mechanism of Project Wing shines:

With the prototype in place the next challenge is creating an infrastructure for drones so that they can travel safely through skies without hitting other vehicles.

While the FAA clearly wants drones to sense and avoid other aircraft its been slow to implement changes

If the drone industry wants to change the world it ll need an FAA that lets it deliver.

Watch the drone in action below and read more about Project Wing at The Atlantic a

#Autonomous X-47b Flies In Formation With Fighter aircraft If the latest tests are any indication humans

Yesterday the U s. Navy announced the first successful manned & unmanned aircraft flight operations of its experimental X-47b drone.

and an operator on the deck steered the drone aside while#the Hornet landed on the same deck.

Unlike most drones which have a pilot dictating their every move#by remote control the X-47b is largely autonomous calculating its flight paths.

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