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“Drone Slayer” has Quadcopter Shooting Lawsuit Thrown Out
William Merideth, a Kentucky man who shot down a quadcopter that he thought was flying over his property, has had the resulting lawsuit from the owner of the drone dismissed by a federal judge. David Boggs, who piloted his DJI Phantom 3 near Merideth’s property, filed a suit against Merideth…
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Airbus Unveils Modular Flying Car System
Airbus has debuted a new modular flying car system at the Geneva Motor Show 2017. The concept, dubbed Pop.Up, is effectively a giant quadcopter – designed in partnership with Italdesign – which can be coupled with a number of different, specially designed commercial transportation driving capsules to turn them into…
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Catch Them All without Moving with the PokéDrone
Are you interested in playing Pokémon Go, but aren’t into all that standing up and walking around? Are you afraid of the continuing Pokégeddon, which has resulted in muggings, road traffic accidents, the discovery of a dead body, a teen hit by a car, and two men falling off a bluff? Then TRNDlabs…
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CRACUNS Drone Able to Deploy from Underwater Station Developed
Drones may be beginning to fill the skies and seas for a number of purposes, but what if a drone could lurk beneath the surface, just waiting to be deployed on an aerial operation? A drone developed by John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab can do just such a thing, able…
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Volvo ROAR is an Automated Bin!
Volvo is known for their safe cars, my own family has the saying that Volvo’s are the people’s tanks. They are known for other things and soon they could be the ones responsible for your bins thanks to ROAR. ROAR (RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling) is designed to help those…
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The Drone Racing League Has Officially Launched
We have had eSports for a while now and while I can understand why it captures so many people all around the world, it wasn’t anything for me. What was missing in eSports for me, I might find in the new Drone Racing League that now officially has been launched.…
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FLARES – A New Drone Launch and Retrieval System
Just like a full-sized aeroplane, landing a fixed wing drone is no easy feat, made even more difficult under poor ground conditions and lack of space. Most drone makers accept this issue by designing their drones to handle light crash landings. Sometimes this just isn’t reasonable, be it due to…
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US Army Tests New Drone Swarm
The latest drone test exercise run by the US Army was different to most, in that instead of showcasing a brand new multi-million-dollar aircraft, it instead used a swarm of standard off-the-shelf consumer drones. The objects of these exercises were twofold. Firstly, deploying the drones as a swarm to simulate…
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Feds Investigating Teen Who Made Gun-Mounted Quadcopter
An 18-year-old engineering student who modified a quadcopter to carry a four-shot handgun is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Austin Haughwout posted a video of his “Flying Gun” to YouTube, a 14-second clip that has been watched close to two million times, and its popularity has brought…
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Drone Enters Flightpath of Passenger Airplane
Drones, the enthusiast way to get your videos taken from a perspective only caught by hanging off a tall object or sending a camera into space on a weather balloon. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to toy with its much larger cousin, a commercial aircraft.…
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Even The Pope Has a Drone!
We’ve seen many weird and wonderful things getting gifted to Pope Francis, such as the Fiat car and even a pizza, but the latest one is quite interesting. Pope Francis has long been a supporter of modern technology, something we’ve seen through his use of Twitter, iPads and such, even…
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Brain of a Bee Used to Pilot a Drone
Earlier this year, we brought you the story of a simulated worm brain that had been uploaded into a LEGO robot, and now it seems that The Green Brain Project is taking that idea to the next level, implanting a recreation of a bee’s brain into a robotic flying drone.…
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Meet the Drone-Based Hoverbike That Could Revolutionise Travel
We all know how easy to use drones are. Many of us have taken to the skies with a drone, performing tricky stunts and captured amazing video footage, but what if we could ride one of those drones? Well, this project, the ‘Hoverbike’, is said to be exactly that. It utilises drone-like…
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Quadcopter Style Drone May Offer Better Safe Landings for Mars Rovers
Quadcopters and drones are proving to be one of the most popular bits of technology of the last decade, and a team at the ESA are discovering that they’re not only great fun here on Earth, but could also provide us with benefits on Mars. The ESA recently tested a…
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3D Printing Quadcopters Drones Could Be Used In Emergency Situations
3D printing and quadcopters are two of the coolest innovations to happen in recent years, one can make virtually anything you want and the other can go virtually anywhere you want, so what if you were to combine the two? Well that’s exactly what one team of Engineers from the…
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