#Will Zuckerberg use his Internet-laser drones for good or for evil? According to the International Telecommunications Union more than 50 percent of the world population is currently without Internet access.
While Facebook is looking to send drones#the size of massive passenger planes into orbit to bring Web access to the masses Google is looking at high-altitude balloons
#How drones and insects merged in ways that might surprise you Hornets, wasps and termites are pests to many households in America,
Micro drones on a MAST Mission Is it a wasp? Is it a spider? Is it a fly?
What may look like the average neighborhood pesky critter is actually a tiny drone conducting a military surveillance mission.
Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet Block II Personal Reconnaissance System is a tiny drone helicopter that can fit into the palm of your hand.
On missions, the tiny drone can travel about three quarters of a mile and provide real-time live motion video back to the operator.
Microsoft employee demonstrated it by designing a model of drone with the hand gesture to manipulate tools that were visible to her with the help of headset.
Voxel8's printer is designed to do more than just print tiny drones. The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.
The 62-lb. 28 kilograms) drone can take off vertically like a helicopter, but in the air it flies more like an airplane.
Future versions of the drone could be used for a variety of applications, the researchers said."
"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,
Now, the researchers are examining ways to make the drone more aerodynamically efficient, Fredericks said.
The GL-10 drone is the latest in a series of prototypes used to develop the concept.
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,
when they expect the drone could be ready for use in the field f
#Bionic Arm Taps New Part of Brain for Natural Moves Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs have been a reality for a few years,
data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers
Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers
#Sensors and drones: hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
helping them to use less fertilizers and water, and to control the general condition of their crops.
and specialized in the use of drones for agriculture: They contribute to the early detection of diseases that affect grapevines,
This is made possible by drones which carry small cameras able to take near infrared images of crops.
because drones normally swing while flying. A software program builds a mosaic made up of hundreds of images,
Marvin Andujar and Chris Crawford, have built a mind-machine method to control a drone through a wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) Brain-Computer Interface device.
The drone operates based on user cognitive commands. When the user thinks forward, the drone moves forward towards the direction it is facing.
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
who is also a member of our Neurogadget editorial team. The idea is to use the BCI, drones and other machines such as a humanoid as a third arm for humans.
We want to provide humans efficient control of their machines while performing real world tasks. This could be helpful
and emotional state while the drone is controlled cognitively. They believe that to make the technology usable
Now it's controlled by ISIS fighters, who have threatened to destroy it as part of their campaign against religious idolatry.
and switched the avatar from the Centcom logo to a photo of a masked fighter.
#Sonar-Powered Drone Wants to Be Your Fishing Buddy The Aguadrone is a quadcopter that uses sonar to tell you where the catch is.
So far, theye developed three main functions for their drone. hen fishing from the beach,
(the drone) makes it easy. The Line Flier pod which flies baits to specific areas was the original inspiration
All of them screw on and off the bottom of the drone for easy swapping. The Fish Scout pod is a self-contained sonar device that finds fish underwater.
It is used similar technology in fishing vessels but as a drone, it offers a lot more flexibility and usability.
The drone can easily land in water and fly back up. For communication the Fish Scout pod creates its own Wi-fi connection with an impressive 320-foot range.
With eight months of building and testing, Marion tells PSFK he regularly takes the drone out for a spin
#Microsoft is building a drone army to catch mosquitoes and stop epidemics One potential use for drones that you might not have thought about is preventing the spread of disease.
Microsoft has launched just an initiative called Project Premonition, with the aim of detecting viruses before they infect a significant number of people using a fleet of Unmanned aerial vehicles (or UAVS).
the impact of drone technology and number of saved lives could be huge. The key is in catching mosquitoes
by sending out portable drones that are able to cover far more distance and come back to base with bigger samples.
the drones will need to operate semi-autonomously as well as being directed by a human pilot: having the ability to navigate environments on their own ensures they can travel greater distances and cover more land.
which will be attached to the drones: What's more, thanks to the latest advancements in molecular biology
But some bees become drones others sterile female workers, and still others the queen. Much of this differentiation can be attributed to epigenomics,
such as workers and drones, are much smaller and have shorter life spans. Similarly, cancers often subvert a cell's normal epigenomic mechanisms to become more aggressive e
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
#Hydrogen-Powered Hycopter Drone can fly for 4 Hours on a Single Charge This month,
multi-rotor UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) that uses its own structural elements to store fuel. e realized that the structures of these drones were hollow inside,
Unlike any of the other currently-available drones that can stay in the air for no more than 20 to 30 minutes at a time
we opened up a whole new category in the drone market, in-between battery and combustion engine systems, said Wankewycz.
providing yet another reason to be enthusiastic about the future of drone delivery systems. Writing in the Wall street journal,
MA hybrid hoverbike (a contraption most people associate with sci-fi novels and the Star wars movie franchise) looks more like a giant quad-copter drone than anything else two oak propellers
but a drone that a soldier can ride. The project started as a hobby the engineer
high-endurance drones to deliver Internet capability to remote areas. The Google and Facebook projects would be similar in concept to the space-based systems,
These micro-drones, which can be deployed from military aircraft at altitudes close to 50,000 feet and still fit in the palm of your hand,
the U s. Naval Research Laboratory released these micro-drones 57,600 feet in the air, let them free fall 11 miles in the sky,
just as the Black Hornet mini helicopter drones were used by The british Army in Afghanistan to detect Taliban fighting units.
Some of the scenarios outlined by the U s. Naval Research Laboratory include dropping CICADA drones tens of thousands of feet above enemy lines,
The fascinating part of the CICADA program is how these micro drones could eventually be used as part of a obotic swarmto overwhelm an adversary.
An enemy may be able to defend against several of these drones, but just try to defend against a giant swarm of them launched out of the back of a plane.
And, in fact, there a growing literature about so-called obotic swarmswhich are essentially drones or bots that can be programmed to behave intelligently during combat.
And best of all, these bots and drones can form warmswithout the need for humans to control them.
In another related experiment, the U s. Naval Research Laboratory showed how a group of 13 warm boatsall of them without requiring a human drone operator could be used to protect a high-value naval vessel.
capable of launching whole fleets of mini-drones at one time. Or, better yet, how about underwater aircraft carriers?
As Peter W. Singer, an expert on drones and warfare, pointed out about recent DARPA initiatives,
Yes, that right underwater aircraft carriers for drones. In yet another experiment, the U s. Naval Research Laboratory showed that it was possible to release a drone from a submerged submarine with the robotic drone shot out of a Tomahawk missile tube.
As the drone emerges from the tube, its wings unfold before it speeds off to its destination.
Mind blown. What makes micro aerial vehicles such as the CICADA so attractive of course, is that theye cheap to make
And as more uses are found for these micro-drones, it easy to see the price falling further.
Theye not sophisticated drones that you have to learn how to pilot. You just load them up in a plane
which suggests that there just aren enough drone pilots out there to keep up with the military use of drones.
so in the potential applications of these micro CICADA drones. Remember when the future of warfare was bigger bigger missile payloads, bigger tanks and bigger warplanes?
If giant swarms of insect-like drones can save the lives of U s. soldiers abroad,
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