#Beyond the Helix:''Supercoiled'DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes DNA doesn't just coil in the iconic double helix immortalized in every high school biology textbook.
Just don't expect these vanishing vehicles to replace your local mail delivery person or even high-tech delivery drones.
All aircraft, from drones to the Ariane launcher, are equipped currently with an inertial measurement unit,
Page parent company will also include the drone delivery project Wing and investment arms of the California technology giant. undamentally
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
#Small Beerotor Drone Learns To fly By Sight Alone Secretly, a lot of drones are cell phone parts disguised as flying machines.
Advances in cellular technology, like miniaturized powerful batteries, cheaper smaller cameras, and sensors like accelerometers have all found their way from our pockets to the skies.
Now, a new drone eye wants to shed cell parts like a vestigial tail, and instead make drones fly on sight alone.
Accelerometers are neat tools, and in drones they detect the force of gravity, letting the craft know which way is down.
But theye hardly the only way for flying vehicles to stay level. The Beerotor drone made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille,
France, manages to fly without one. Instead, the three-ounce rotorcraft uses electronic, almost panoramic eyes that look out at the ground below,
But military engineers would also probably like to take a crack at turning liquid metal into shape shifting drones and robots, familiar to Terminator 2 fans as Skynet's T-1000.
so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,
#Tiny Drones Can See The World Like Insects Do Drones with better fly-sighttiny insect drones could be useful for disaster-area surveillance
Now researchers from The swiss Federal Institute of technology have created an artificial eye and navigation system for these drones based on insectsvision,
This isn the first attempt to put streamlined insect-inspired sensors into drones but it the first time it been done for such tiny drones (others have tried to hook them up with bulky digital cameras.
Insect-style vision works well for drones because it doesn have very high resolution, but it is highly sensitive to objectsmovement
or changes in how light is reflectederfect for maneuvering drones through small spaces with lots of obstacles.
The artificial eye The swiss researchers designed weighs only two milligrams. It made of three photodetectors with a lens on top.
the researchers plan to configure several artificial eyes on one drone to create a more sophisticated visual system,
Alphabet will also include Google Wing drone delivery attempt and its X lab, as well as its Venture and Capital investment companies.
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
#Tiny Drones That Navigate with Insect Eyes A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while buzzing around in confined,
An emerging class of very small flying drones has taken off in public and private research labs in recent years (see obotic Insect Takes Off.
These mini drones could be valuable in spying and surveillance; they might also be useful for things like monitoring disaster areas
will be to combine multiple artificial eyes into configurations that allow the drone to ee all aroundand avoid collisions,
He says the elementary eyes are suited particularly for drones that weigh 50 grams or less,
As CEO and President of Alphabet, Page and Brin will oversee Google as well as affiliated companies like the life extension project Calico and a drone delivery venture called Wing.
including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.
which focuses on moon-shot projects such as Google's drone delivery service, also will be part of Alphabet,
the two-day delivery service that in future Amazon wants to be powered by drones. The new Dash buttons appear to be an extension of a Dash system it launched last year aimed at its Amazon Fresh subscribers
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
#Are Drones A Fad Or Here For good? Drones are seen no longer just as a tool of the military
or a toy that people use to fly around. Theye becoming accepted as a tool that businesses can deploy,
and every day more and more companies are being created to build drone prototypes and software to help them fly,
This is the golden age of drones, and it is just taking off. Take consumer perception roneis a household word.
Check out the number of drone videos on Youtube (827 000). ) According to Frost and Sullivan, an aerospace research firm,
over 200,000 drones were sold each month in 2014. Parrot, a french drone maker, reported sales of over $47 million in drones in 2013.
Whether we like it or not, we are going to be seeing more drones in the sky and on the news,
and they will get cheaper, faster and more reliable. Here, I want to go into some reasons why
I think drones are not just a fad but are here to stay. The Trend of Drones in Industry While still not commonplace
drones are beginning to appear in many different industry settings, where their ease of use and huge costs savings over traditional methods,
it makes it a no brainer for companies. Construction companies are not always first movers when it comes to new technology,
but when it comes to drones, they have taken really a liking to them. Companies like Bouygues, Balfour Beatty and Webcor are using drones to map construction sites.
They are employing drones made by Skycatch, which recently made a deal with Japan Komatsu to enable driverless bulldozers to take instructions from unmanned drones.
You may not have known it but youe probably already seen a lot of footage taken by drones on TV.
Big brands like Walmart, BMW and Nike have taken videos using drones. Video production companies have been very quick to use drones to get difficult-to-reach shots.
Modern drones now use steady-cam like gimbals to make videos look super smooth. As drones get more sophisticated,
expect to see more drone-made movies. Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns.
This is a job well-suited to drones, as previously helicopters would have had to do this job,
at great expense. Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops
and detect weeds, and they can even count plants. These kinds of drones are using fixed wings,
which mean they can stay in the air for much longer, and capture a lot more data than a DJI-like quadcopter.
Jay Bregman, the former CEO of Hailo, is verified developing database of drones, that will allow people to know where you can
and cannot fly a drone. Saving Lives Many of you will have seen the defibrillator drone which is still an idea,
but could be a reality very soon. These kinds of drones could be useful for cities with dense traffic.
A drone like this could fly across heavy traffic and deliver lifesaving equipment in under three minutes.
For places with no roads to speak of, companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine.
Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims, or when a life guard can get to a person on time.
The average human takes 90 seconds to reach and save a drowning victim who is 75 meters from the beach.
It takes a drone 22 seconds. Why send a human into a blazing inferno when you can send a robot?
Drone America, a company based in Reno, Nev. recently unveiled a drone that can capture heat signatures,
analyze the chemical, biological, and radiological threats before someone actually gets to the fire. Police have been buying up drones for years now,
as the cost of running helicopters is compared very high to sending up a drone for a short period of time.
Whatever you think about the surveillance state, drones will continue to be used by law enforcement and security forces.
Transportation The idea of a drone taking you to work is still a Jetsons kind of idea,
but there one company in Santa cruz, Calif.,that plans to kill your commute. Joby Aviation is building an ambitious aircraft:
A personal craft that can lift off vertically, fly 200 miles and land vertically, all on battery power.
While still several years away, the technology this company is developing could pave the way for new advances in personal transportation.
I took a visit to their HQ and was blown away by the work theye doing on VTOL technology,
Some people think that drones could be the next trend in personal transportation. While this is some ways off,
The promise of personal drones is one where youl jump into some kind of craft from your rooftop,
Think about the huge opportunity of drones in the future, and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth.
There are very few companies out there today creating software to make drones safer. What about systems to manage where drones can
and cannot legally go? How will we know who owns a drone when the next one crashes into a famous person lawn?
There is no equivalent of the DMV for drones yet, or safety belts or airbags. Drones could spur demand for lighter batteries or a different kind of power source.
Drones need to see where they are going and avoid obstacles, and software is going to have to be built to make all of these dreams a reality.
There are so many great applications for drones, we haven even begun to scratch the surface. Whatever happens, drones are here to stay p
#Duke Researchers Create Artificial Human Muscles As a representative of M. U s c. L. E, . I find artificial muscles a bit unseemly.
However, researchers at Duke university have been able to grow their own twitching tissue, a first that could allow researchers to test drugs on working muscle without damaging a live host.
From the release:##In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses,
#With Skyspecs#Guardians The Drones Have Become Self-Aware Skyspecs has solved the biggest problem with drones:
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death the drone will casually back out of the way.
If there is a tree in the way the drone will avoid it. Best of all this system works with existing drone platforms.
Skyspecsteam has been building drones for six years and and individuals in the company come from teams that won the 2012 international aerial competition
and the prestigious DARPA sponsored AGICCOMPETITION. These guys know drones. Guardian is the company initial product
and they tell me it the first product to offer this sort of capability. It works as advertised
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
Guardian drones will be able to avoid say spinning blades on windmills or utility lines. Cofounder Thomas Brady tells me that the founders of the company were previously part of both volunteer and doctoral research in ground sea and air robotics.
AOPTIX originally developed its laser technology for the Pentagon, designing systems that actively steer laser beams to keep data moving between ground stations, drones, and fighter jets.
and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability (see gricultural Drones, although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
and Climate at the University of Minnesota, who has no ties to the startup, says the robot is great additional tool to put in the nutrient management technology toolkit.
and technology that could see wireless broadband delivered by drones or satellite (see acebook Drones Will Battle Google Balloons to Spread Internet Accessand ow Google Could Disrupt Global Internet access by Satellite.
Parikh said that slashing app data use fits into an equally important arm of the project focused on people that can access Internet infrastructure
and experts to explore using drones for that purpose e
#Microsoft s 3-D Audio Gives Virtual Objects a Voice Just as a new generation of virtual reality goggles for video games are about to hit the market,
#Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics WASHINGTON: Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks in humans. Project Premonition, launched by American tech company Microsoft,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
we covered an interesting take on the DIY drone market, a 3d printed drone for scouting hiking trails from above.
After successfully completing their 3d printed prototype thharebot Voyager DLP 3d printer Officially For sale As they head to the reatest Show
while makers of drones are increasingly using them. And United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed martin and Boeing-has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones which help farmers, like Keith Larrabee, make effective decisions.
One leading secrecy expert previously told Dailymail. com that the drone is'very likely'be used to test technologies that will increase spying capabilities of the US.'
'The X-37b space drone, otherwise known as the Orbital Test vehicle, is blasted into orbit by a rocket.
'Weapon can shoot a drone out of the sky from six miles away, claims military official By Jonathan O'Callaghan for Mailonline Published:
18:14 GMT, 16 june 2015 A Russian military official has claimed that they have developed a icrowave gunthe high-frequency weapon can supposedly disable an unmanned drone and even a missile from up to six miles (10km) away.
Hundreds of drones are planned by the Kremlin to enter service by 2025, while they are also developing a new advanced tank called Armata T-14 that has ceramic armour. 1
by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
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#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
to the most remote parts of the world. The drone is now ready for real-world testing
and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year. Aquila is powered a solar unmanned plane that beams down internet connectivity from the sky.
The drone, which was built in 14 months, is able to fly in the air for 90 days at a time,
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is now ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drone, which was built in 14 months, is able to fly in the air for 90 days at a time,
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#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
#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
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