Drone

Ion drive meets drone, as small plane flies with no moving parts

The Titan underwater drone promises to go deeper than its rivals

Drone Delivery Becomes a Reality in Remote Pacific Islands

Currently, health workers in Vanuatu often hike over mountains to deliver vaccines–but drones can fly over them. This September, delivery drones will begin to fly the friendly skies of Vanuatu. And this isn’t a one-shot demonstration, like many of the stunts we’ve seen from the likes of Amazon and Google.

How Lyft, Mastercard, and Drone Companies Are Experimenting With Artificial Intelligence

The World’s Fastest Commercial Drone Will Drop Blood on the US This Year

‘Robot Bees.’ How Walmart Wants to Use Drones on Future High-Tech Farms

The autonomous “selfie drone”

Skydio, founded by three MIT alumni, is commercializing an autonomous video-capturing camera drone, called R1 and dubbed the “selfie drone,” that tracks and films a subject, while freely navigating any environment.

Drone crashes in Arizona National Forest, starts a wildfire

Drone use and wilderness areas have been in conflict in recent years. Drones have grounded fire-fighting planes and helicopters, which usually fly low to the forest. Having a drone come in contact with propellers could endanger a firefighter’s life.

First test of drone air traffic control to happen in Switzerland this year

How Do Drone Light Shows Work?

MRS is a new initiative of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems, and it’s intended to bring together researchers who are in the field of multi-robot systems (MRS) and multi-agent systems (MAS). “Typically MRS/MAS research is spread across large conferences, so the intent of this more focused conference is to bring those researchers together to highlight the best in the field and learn more from each other,” said Dr. Nora Ayanian, Assistant Professor and Director of the ACT Lab at USC and MRS chair.