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DHL and microdrones are testing drones that could be used to deliver urgently needed goods to hard-to-reach places eg medicines to remote sites.

#Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key priority Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer hands within 30 minutes.

They are planning to launch as soon as FAA regulations are lifted as early as 2015. Amazon states that safety will be their top priority.

Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the worldâ#first drone delivery company.

But while you can quibble over who is really the first commercial drone delivery company

They use drones for delivery and marketing. They are not a drone or robot company.

And thatâ#good! Zookal is a textbook rental startup that also provides a digital note platform and internships for international students.

Zookal are using drones developed by the University of Sydney engineering students and technically Flirtey is the actual drone startup.

Or possibly Vimbra who are managing the logistics partnerships ie between Zookal and Flirtey. However they all have cofounder Ahmed Haider in common.

Textbooks are a great test bed for drone logistics as they are robust reasonably expensive and in demand unlike tacos

and other e-commerce will be much more viable. â#Drones are the first robots to become an off the shelf technology that is wide open for diverse uses with drone delivery

Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.

Flirtey are working in partnership with The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering a nonprofit research institute to develop a set of guidelines for the use of commercial drones. â##We hope to use this guide as a way to work through safety privacy and community concerns locally

and security context may be useful to assess what UK citizens are comfortable with ranging from troop support in areas such as minesweeping to remote surveillance to fully armed drones.

#Two small drones approved by FAA for civilian use in the US Two small drones Insitu Scan Eagle X200

Both drones have fixed wings weigh less than 55 pounds each and have wingspans of less than 10 feet

Part  of a session called hose Flying Things (which also features the work of drone ecologist Lian Pin Koh airborne logistics activist Andreas Raptopoulos

Drone app harnesses crowd power to fast-track vision learning in robotic spacecraft Astrodrone is both a simulation game app for the Parrot AR.

and the drone is indeed a toy quad rotor meant for playing games. We thought we could develop a game for the Parrot that would serve as a means for crowdsourcing the data we needed.

Drone is uniquely suitable for this purpose because: It is widely available to the public,

and (on the Parrot AR drone 2. 0) a pressuremeter and magnetometer. Further, it already uses these sensors to achieve accurate onboard state estimation

The code for communicating with Parrot is open source. Methodology The question we faced experimentally was how to couple the real-world object to the virtual space in which the drone would be flying.

Drone is delivered with a marker that is recognized in the images by the onboard firmware. The recognition gives an image position (x, y) and a distance to the marker.

Note, however, that this information is not enough to disambiguate both the position and orientation of the drone with respect to the marker.

because the drone is located on the right of the marker. In the luecase, the marker is in the left part of the image,

because the drone has turned to the right. Note that the distances to the marker are the same.

we perform state estimation on the basis of the drone estimates of its height, speeds, angles,

The heading is estimated quite well on board the drone, where the Parrot AR. Drone 2 also uses a magnetometer.

Figure 2 shows what computational processes are happening on which device during the game. The marker detection and the estimation of the drone attitude, height,

and speeds are performed by the firmware on board the drone. The app is running the drone control interface,

sending and receiving data from the drone, performing state estimation (X y z) with respect to the marker and rendering the 3d world.

Of course, for the experiment we also need to process the drone onboard images. Because of the iphone computational constraints, we decided to save 5 subsequent images

while the player is trying to dock and to process the images after the flight.

This processing now happens when the player visits the highscore table and agrees to join the experiment.

For example, if an ipad or ipod is connected to the drone Wifi, it cannot send its data.

#Quadrocopter Drones from China The market of remote controlled quadrocopter drones is growing fast. The world's first crash avoiding drone comes from Guangzhou Walkera Technology Co. Ltd. a Chinese manufacturer of R c model toys such as helicopters

& aeroplanes that are certified to CE UL and FCC standards. The Walkera Infra X Smart Drone with Crash Avoidance System (CAS) contains a total of 10 sensors 2 Ultrasonic Altitude Sensors on the belly of the drone 8 Infrared Sensors

surrounding the drone body they keep the distance of the Drone from big objects like a Wall or a pile of Big Boxes.

The 2. 4ghz New Generation Radio System is the standard of new generation radio system.

Mind-controlled quadrotor dronemind controlled drones are a hot area for researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzou China who have adapted a Parrot AR Drone 2. 0 to be operated by an Emotiv EPOC

By thinking left strongly the mind-pilot can make the drone take off; thinking left right and push makes it turn clockwise move forward

More interestingly clenching teeth makes the drone descend while blinking commands it to take a photo o

and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm In August 2014 Google x announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon Prime Air.

#Invisible Drones Could Become Reality with New Meta Material Electrical engineers at the University of California in San diego have created a new design for a cloaking device,

#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.

Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.

The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,

as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e

Walmart could start using drones to start delivering things to your house Amazon and Walmart have been jockeying for position in the battle to be the number one U s. retailer.

Now it looks like they'll take that battle to the skies as Walmart joins the online retailer in a quest to use a legion of drones for product deliveries and pickups.

which saw a copy of a Walmart's Federal aviation administration application for drone use. The application would allow Walmart to use drones at its warehouses and around customershomes

and the reports suggests the giant retailer is ready to start flying drones as soon as the FAA settles on its new rules for commercial drone use.

Earlier this month, the FAA unveiled a new set of rules for private drone use that include registering many of the drones with the FAA before consumers start flying them.

For commercial drones, which could be used in everything from filming movies to delivering groceries, the FAA has been considering some line-of-sight provisions that could make it virtually impossible for Amazon

and now Walmart to use drones in home deliveries. According to the report Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses,

deliver packages to customers, many of whom live within five miles of their local Walmart,

and to deliver groceries to pick up locations for customers. DJI is one of the most popular drone makers on the market,

with a line of Phantom drones, including the Phantom 3 Standard, which Mashable recently test drove (or flew)."

"Drones have a lot of potential to further connect our vast network of stores, distribution centers, fulfillment centers and transportation fleet,

"Walmart spokesperson Dan Toporek told Reuters. Of course, no one not Amazon and not Walmart is delivering anything by drone until the FAA finalizes its commercial plans,

something that won't happen until next year, at the earliest. That's way late for your last-minute Christmas shopping plans,

which could reasonably be assisted by drone deliveries. Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments o

Automated crowd counting could also prove increasingly potent with the growing use of aerial drone surveillance,

With these technology shifts, exciting technologies like drones, AI, satellite mapping, robotics, and the Internet of things, have realized quickly that the agriculture value chain provides fertile first market opportunities for many technologies that are advanced not enough or have not yet found solutions in the consumer space.

Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.

#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,

The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today launch of its Aerial Information Platform.

Ground Control Station for dispatching drones, and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data.

the four year-old Airware is perhaps Silicon valley premier drone startup. Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,

survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.

Consumer drone makers are growing fast as quadcopters become the hot new toy for kids and adults alike.

China DJI is said to be raising money at a $10 billion valuation. But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone

It the way drones improve efficiency for heavy industry that could be the enduring moneymaker.

Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.

and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.

The company hoped to demonstrate how its system can be customized to let any drone do any job.

the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,

Rather than having to pre-program a drone, manually pilot it, and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers,

The goal is to reduce the drone piloting expertise needed to get complicated missions flown.

enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.

Operators can just trace a flight path on a map instead of driving the drone in real-time.

the startup had several of its biggest customers speak about their use of the platform in their own drones.

French drone company Delta Drone showed of its drone capabilities for surveying farmland and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station.

Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within and give it parameters like required altitude.

It wasn the flashiest demo wee ever seen with a drone after taking off it went to a set height

But commercial drone use isn supposed to be sexy. It supposed to get the job done safe, fast, and cheap.

After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.

replacing lifeguards at beaches with drones carrying floatation devices that can identify people in distress.

One of the new things shown off during these demos was support for fixed-wing drones,

Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet

Essentially, third-parties will be able to develop plug-ins to let drones handle even more niche missions. Little Copters, Big Business This is

since theye mostly industrial or nterpriseclients who already have their own drones, there no need to offer a free tier just yet

Airware costs $2500 per drone per year. But the company doesn have to race to revenue just yet.

Drones are more than just war machines. Downey grew up the son of pilots, then built his own drones at MIT.

Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding, and even save some lives g

Real-time environment maps provided by depth sensors are being used to test self-driving taxis and autonomous delivery drones.

#The revolutionary Lily Flying Camera Drone is brought to life thanks to 3d printing May 13, 2015 By Simonit no surprise that some of the most exciting tech to come out in years has been brought to consumers thanks in no small part to 3d printing.

large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,

the news that Made In Space plans to send their AMF to the ISS later this year implies that science fact could be realized in the very near future d

large-scale solar array could power spacecraft, robots, drones, and more. And, though such projects as mining asteroids with solar-powered drones might seem like science fiction,

the news that Made In Space plans to send their AMF to the ISS later this year implies that science fact could be realized in the very near future e

We can naturally interact with surrounding smart objects such as drones and smart appliances and play games, using purely the light around us.

as well as watches, razors, camping equipment, headphones, and drones. Once the poll closes, Massdrop will reach out to the brand of the top-voted product.

#Facebook says drones could help extend internet access around the world A fleet of solar-powered drones could help provide high-speed internet to people around the world who currently live without it,

The company's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer unveiled the plans during a keynote speech on Thursday at the F8 conference in San francisco. The drones,

000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,

In early stages of development The drones are currently being developed by Ascenta, a U k.-based company that Facebook acquired in 2014.

000 drones, but it will probably be years before it becomes a reality. And that's to say nothing of the red tape Facebook would have to manoeuvre to get a fleet of remotely controlled aircraft in the skies around the world.

#U s. expected to announce drone registry The U s. federal government will require many drone aircraft to be registered,

Pilot sightings of drones have doubled since last year, including sightings near manned aircraft and major sporting events,

Registration will increase pressure on drone operators to fly responsibly, he said, adding,"when they don't fly safely,

They'll recommend which drones should be required to register and which should be exempted, and design a system that would be easy for commercial operators to comply with,

Toys and small drones that don't present a safety threat are likely to be exempt.

Drones that weigh only a pound or two or that can't fly higher than a few hundred feet are considered less risky.

There is no official count of how many drones have been sold in the U s, . but industry officials say it is in the hundreds of thousands

The Consumer electronics Association has forecast that 700,000 drones will be sold this holiday season, and Foxx said it's especially important that new drone users be taught the responsibilities that come with flying.

Registering drones that could pose safety risks"makes sense, but it should not become a prohibitive burden for recreational users who fly for fun and educational purposes

and who have operated harmoniously within our communities for decades,""Dave Mathewson, executive director of the Academy for Model Aeronautics, said in a statement.

The FAA now receives about 100 reports a month from pilots who say they've seen drones flying near planes

but agency officials have said they're concerned that even a drone weighing only a few pounds might cause serious damage

In cases where drones have crashed where they were supposed not to be crowded flying at sports stadiums

to test technology that could locate the operators of small drones that are flying illegally near airports.

The technology would let the government track radio signals used to operate drones within a 5-mile radius

With RAF jets already being replaced by drones piloted by men sitting at computer screens many miles away,

extendable flight deck and hangar for remotely piloted drones, many equipped with weapons, which could target the enemy without putting the crew in harm way.

Darpa is developing swarms of reusable drone aircraft that can work together to perform a mission,

relatable operations with multiple air-launched unmanned drones'.'Dan Patt, program manager at Darpa, said:'

'Darpa said the Gremlin drones would have a lifetime of around 20 uses, fitting somewhere between missiles and conventional aircraft.

The agency is hoping to build on its automated mid-air refuelling technology alongside the sea based platforms for capturing drones as they come into land.

and academics to suggest solutions that will allow the drones to be launched and recovered mid-flight along with navigation and flight control systems s

Drone aircraft could also be used to deliver antibiotics or blood to front-line units to keep them in the fight,

Like the original flying version, the tiny drone has to be attached to a power source as it is too small to house a battery.

349km/h) While scramjet engines are under development for drones and military planes, it could be years until they are used for consumer jets

At longer range, it proposes Realsense as a way to give drones a local 3d map for object avoidance.

#Ready To Get Your Drugs By Drone? Amazon Plan Could Be Game-Changer Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos knew skeptics would pan his drone-delivery plan. know this looks like science fiction.

It not, Bezos told 60 minutes more than a year ago, showing off Amazon test-model octocopters.

And he acknowledged that Amazon proposal to use robot drones faced major regulatory and technical hurdles.

The Federal aviation administration on Thursday awarded an xperimental airworthiness certificateto Amazon AMZN-0. 33%that would clear the way for the company to begin testing its drone program.

such as having a pilot on hand to fly the drone at all times. That important, because Amazon wants its Prime Air drones to be autonomous.)

And many, many technical and regulatory hurdles still loom. But the FAA certificate represents a necessary step for Amazon,

For example, Amazon already been hiring drone software developers, drone regulatory experts, and even drone pilots, too.

So. Let say drone delivery actually happens, with Amazon taking the lead. The new model could dramatically reshape the retail industry,

and affect Amazon fortunes. It could cut down on delivery trucks, for instance, and change our expectations and interactions with companies.

But the most exciting and important application of drone delivery would be in health care. There no comparison.

For these patients, autonomous drones could go the last mile or the last couple miles in helping improve medical adherence and patient outcomes.

Drugs are already being delivered by drone illegal drugs, that is. Various cartels are using drones to send methamphetamine and other narcotics over the heads of authorities.

One drug-toting drone infamously crashed in a parking lot in January. And legal drugs are being delivered in other countries,

which have been more permissive. German packaging company DHL last year spent a month testing drug delivery-by-drone to a remote island off the country coast.

But the test was plagued with problems; two of the first ten drone flights were scrapped because of bad weather.

Would-be drone delivery services in the United states face complications, too. Last month, Amazon complained that the FAA proposed regulations on drones would be too harsh.

And a San francisco startup called Quiqui got considerable attention for its plans to use drones to deliver drugs last year,

although the company ultimately wasn able to get off the ground. That said, investors remain bullish on the U s. drone sector.

In the third quarter of 2014 alone, investors poured a record $65 million into drone tech startups.

Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon

and youl see a whole bunch more activity, a16z Chris Dixon said last year. y hope is that 2015 will be the year of the drone

#Terralux Battles Commoditization By Integrating Smarts With LEDS For Commercial Lighting Refits LED lighting technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last few years.

TRANSFORMER DRONES? The research team envisions a broad range of applications for their technology. For example, an unpiloted air vehicle might change shape from one designed for a cruise mission to one designed for a dive.

#Amazon to begin testing new delivery drones in the US Last month it emerged that the Federal aviation administration (FAA) had granted Amazon permission to begin testing a delivery drone prototype for its Prime Air service,

when it petitioned the FAA for permission to begin testing its drones. But the agency's response was hardly swift,

This will clear the way for Amazon to begin testing its drones outdoors in the United states. The exemption dictates that Amazon's drones fly no higher than 400 ft (122 m),

These rules are consistent with a set of proposed guidelines around commercial drone flight that the FAA floated earlier in the year.

While it marks another step toward the realization of Amazon's ambitious drone delivery plan,

The most obvious obstacle Amazon faces is convincing the FAA that drones can be flown safely beyond the line of sight.

It plans to shoot autonomous drones along 10 mi (16 km) long skyways at 50 mph (80.5 km h) with packages weighing up to 55 lb (25 kg) in tow.

#Lily drone: flying selfie camera follows you around as you ski or run A new drone camera has been released that allows users to simply throw it in the air

and have it follow them around. The drone is designed to allow people to be filmed without having someone do it for them.

It looks to be positioned towards the same people who use Go Pros, mounting them to their head to film snowboarding and other extreme sports,

To use the drone, users simply turn it on and throw it up into the air.

The drone is waterproof and small, only weighing 2. 8 lbs. While it flying, users can choose where to send the drone either following or leading ahead of people,

or circling around them. Then those photos and videos can be exported and viewed after the fact.

The drone has a camera that can take 1080p video, or 120 frames per second slomo films at 820p.

The drone can be ordered pre now for $599, plus $20 shipping. But they won be delivered until February 2016

#Laser weapon Melts Test Drone in Midair A new laser weapon that can burn up targets in just a few seconds recently melted

and destroyed a test drone flying over California. Known as the Compact Laser weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD),

aim and fire at a small drone flying above a testing facility in Point Mugu, California.

In the recent test in California, the smaller laser shot down a drone, but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,

#Signal-Scrambling Tech'Freezes'Drones in Midair A new device that can detect, target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.

The new Anti-UAV Defense system (AUDS) was developed by three tech companies in the United kingdom. It has a radar detection component,

advanced tracking capabilities and a sneaky little onboard device that keeps drones at bay. Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.

Drone operators typically communicate with and direct, the aerial bots using radio signals. Enter AUDS, which uses a drone's communication system against it.

Using directional antennas pointed at the drone, AUDS sends the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio signals that interfere with the radio signals coming from the remote operator.

When the drone picks up AUDS'signals, it"freezes, "unsure of where to fly. Whoever is controlling the anti-drone system can keep the UAV hovering at a distance until the machine runs out of battery life and crashes to the ground, according to a report by the BBC.

AUDS can spot a drone from about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away. After zeroing in on its target

it uses video and thermal imaging software to keep the flying vehicle in its sight. Once the drone gets close enough to the anti-drone system,

it's"game over"for the drone. Drone disturbance Even though drones can be incredibly usefulthey can help conservationists keep tabs on protected areas

and help farmers survey their crops more quickly these flying robots have stirred up quite a few problems in recent months.

Just today (Oct 9), two people operating a small drone near the Washington monument in Washington, D c,

. accidentally crashed their UAV on the back lawn of the White house. A similar incident occurred at the presidential residence in January.

Drones are prohibited from flying in the U s. capital but laws and heavy fines don't seem to keep all drones out.

Commercial drones have also been used in attempts to smuggle contraband goods, like cellphones and weapons, into prisons.

And camera-toting drones hovering over private homes have been derided as both a security and privacy concern for residents.

The U s. Federal aviation administration (FAA), which sets guidelines for how and where commercial drones can be flown,

has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),

where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots

has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators. The FAA signed an agreement this week that will allow it to test technologies that can detect the position of operators who are flying their drones in restricted areas,

such as near airports, according to a report by Phys. org. Though the AUDS system doesn't promise to help locate errant drone operators,

it could be used to keep drones away from restricted areas altogether. The radio-jamming technology aboard AUDS doesn't scramble signals from commercial or military aircraft

which use encrypted signals, so it might be safe to use near airports. The new anti-drone system has been tested in the United kingdom, the United states and France, according to the BBC.

But there's no word yet on when or where this drone-freezing technology could be used in these countries u

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