By Carlos Asmat & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Wiwo.de and The Register, and Fortune report that google has acquired a md4-1000 from the German company Microdrones GmbH. That type of UAV can fly for roughly one hours on a single charge and could photograph pretty much everything on its way. Maybe Google is seeking a cheaper alternative to traditional aerial photography for Google Earth, maybe […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Here’s a prototype of an autonomous helicopter with four engines (quadrotor) capable of carrying out extreme movements in confined areas. Daniel Mellinger, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar from Grasp Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have designed this ultra easy to use UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). The quadricopter passes easily through windows in a vertical […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The Micropilot MP-Vision Glider is an unmanned air vehicle. It can be preprogrammed with specific flight plans in advance. This drone can be optionally equipped with a camera to take snapshots of crops or forest areas, for example. The MP-Vision has a radio control but can also fly autonomously. It has GPS for taking geographically […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Prototypes, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Stanford University’s Biomimetics Laboratory has developed a drone which is able to cling on walls and stay fixed. The airplane clings on walls thanks to small spines on its front feet. The main difficulty with this technology is being in a position to be able to make the plane land on a vertical surface at […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Military, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Drones come in various sizes and with various functions (transport, surveillance, combat) but often the existing planes and helicopters are still rather on the large side. Fortunately at RobotShop we’ve already taken a step further in surveillance with our Skybotix helicopter drone. In terms of planes, a new range of remote-controlled military prototypes is now […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
What a wonderful idea to send a Drone to scan the Tyrolean Alps. This drone is equipped with a High Definition camera; the pictures taken show the beauty of this magnificient landscape. It skims the trees and the summit of the mountains while flying. This is very daring since its prototype could crash. Tt also […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Prototypes, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The Robust Robotics Group at MIT has created a QuadCopter which can travel about according to vocal instructions. The technician in the video below gives the following order to a helicopter robot: “Go across room 124, then face the windows and go up.” This drone carries out the order without difficulty. The vocal orders are […]
By Vincent Abry & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The Skybotix CoaX UAV Drone is an autonomous micro helicopter. It is a coaxial helicopter robot ideal for research and education. It features two brushless motors for the rotors and two servo motors for guidance. To communicate, the Skybotix CoaX uses a Bluetooth connection and also an optional WiFi module. It can be guided with […]
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