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180,000 Drones Have Been Registered With The FAA, But There’s Thousands More...
Image: FAA Drone Registry (screenshot) According to FAA administrator Michael Huerta, more than 180,000 people have registered as drone owners in the newly-established drone registry. The registry went...
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Lily Drone Hovers Over $34 Million In Pre-Order Sales
Image: Lily How awesome would it be to just toss a drone into the air and let it do the rest? Well, that’s Lily. Lily is an autonomous camera drone that you chuck into the air to let it record whatever...
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Compiler: Parrot Disco, Lego WeDo 2.0, Sphero Force Band, And More From CES 2016
This year’s annual consumer electronics show (CES) held in fabulous Las Vegas was indeed filled with a plethora of fabulous robots and drones. We didn’t get to attend in person, but the sheer amount of...
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Introducing CoDrone, The World’s First Programmable Consumer Drone
Image: Robolink Computer coding, an industry which was once locked to a small, well trained group of people has quickly become more accessible to adults and children alike all over the world. CoDrone...
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Watch Flyability’s Crash-Resistant Drone Explore Treacherous Ice Caves
A lot of people unwrapped drones from under their trees last Christmas. And a majority of those people also wrecked their drones into numerous objects. It’s a problem for most drones. A slight bump...
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How Planning Algorithms Will Make Better Drones
Image: MIT Your average drone is dumb, but they are getting smarter. Smart features such as auto-follow and waypoints are being integrated into today’s consumer drones, but it’s still tricky to teach...
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Google Has Patented A Robot For Its Drone Deliveries
Google has stepped up its game in the drone delivery wars. The tech giant was recently granted a patent according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website. In an effort to...
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Compiler: Death Of Marvin Minsky, Google Delivery Robots, Droneboarding, And...
Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to...
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Want Early Access To Lily Camera? Join The Beta Program Today
Image: Lily The autonomous drone startup Lily just opened their beta testers program to the public. According to a recent blog post, the startup has had more than enough product testing in the Bay...
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DARPA Drone Dodges Objects At 45 MPH, Autonomously
Image: DARPA DARPA’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program is betting big on the autonomy of drones. During a recent test held in a messy warehouse in Massachusetts, their sensor-equipped quadcopter...
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Parrot’s Sequoia Reinvents The Action Camera For Agriculture
Image: Sensefly (modified) Drone company Parrot is designing the GoPro for agriculture. They call it Sequoia, and it’s designed to help visualize both the visible and invisible aspects of agricultural...
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The New DJI Phantom 4 Is Smarter Than Your Typical Drone
Image: DJI (Modified) DJI, the paramount company of all drone companies, has announced their latest model in the Phantom lineup. Aptly named Phantom 4, DJI has added a suite of advanced features making...
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7 Expert Drones for Aerial Videography Pilots
If you’re a pilot working in aerial videography, then you have more choices than ever when it comes to drone models. From consumer quadcopters to multirotor hexapod drones with DSLR gimbal attachments,...
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Stanford’s New Drone Can Climb Up Walls When It’s Not Flying
Image: Stanford Drones are presented with a major problem because of their low endurance and susceptibility to uneven landing zones, but Stanford’s new SCAMP or Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering...
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Compiler: Google Selling Boston Dynamics, Robots Pulling Cars, And More
Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to...
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MIT’s Artistic Drone Can Draw What You Draw
Image: MIT Media Lab Since the dawn of man, drawings have been put forth on a multitude of mediums. Cave, canvas, and computer. Much of these works derive from the movement of the human hand, but...
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Compiler: Artistic Drones, Autonomous Taxis, And More
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Flying Gripper Sucks Things Up And Then Spits Its Out
Image: Festo Who said drone deliveries had to be handled by multirotors? While that may seem to be the popular design philosophy behind many drone delivery projects, Festo has a radically different...
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Compiler: Sharp’s Robot Smartphone, Dispatch Ground Delivery, And More
Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to...
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