Aug 11
Singularity Hub is reporting that dozens of underwater drones have been deployed to waters near Iran: As US talks with Iran over their nuclear program began to sour and the possibility of sanctions against the country rose, Iran responded by threatening to cut off the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway and the only way …
Jun 25
Joggobot is a helicopter drone that motivates joggers by flying in front of them. This is, of course, different from the usual way drones motivate running, which consists of shooting missiles at your wedding. The Week Magazine explains: The aerial robot uses its camera to spot a colorful pattern on a T-shirt worn by the …
Jun 17
Bio-mimicking MAV (micro aerial vehicles) are nothing new. (Been blogging about them almost as long as I’ve been blogging.) But, if you’re new to this, these are drones, that is, flying robots, that look and act like natural creatures. Insects, birds, whathaveyou. There’s some new work being done out of John Hopkins university –funded by US Defence agencies– that …
Mar 24
Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today has built an argus of flying, file-sharing drones. Their starting point for project “Electronic Countermeasures” was to create something akin to an ‘aerial Napster’ or ‘airborne Pirate Bay’, but it became much more than that. “Part nomadic infrastructure and part robotic swarm, we have rebuilt and programmed the drones to broadcast their own …
Feb 10
Looks like this drone fad is catching on. From Singularity Hub: According to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service, nearly one in three US warplanes are drones…and those machines are changing the way the world wages war. US soldiers in Afghanistan rely more and more upon intelligence gathered from drones, and President Obama recently …
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