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UAVs, aerial robotics, and autonomous flight.
Aerial robotics is the sub-field where regulation, not engineering, is usually the binding constraint. The aircraft can fly the mission; whether they may fly it beyond the operator's line of sight, over people, or at scale is a matter for civil aviation authorities. Rule-making timelines therefore move this market more than airframe announcements do.
The commercial cases that have held up are the ones where the alternative is genuinely worse: inspecting infrastructure a human would have to climb, spraying fields, surveying sites, and delivering medical payloads across terrain with poor roads. Consumer photography remains the volume segment.
Defence demand has reshaped the sector considerably, pulling investment toward autonomy, resilience to jamming, and low-cost expendable airframes — capabilities that do not map neatly back onto civilian products.
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M appeared first on The Robot Report.
The FAA approval came nearly a year after DoorDash unveiled its delivery robot and reflects its increasing interest in building automation in-house. The post DoorDash gains FAA certification to operate its own drone delivery program appeared first on The Robot Report.
There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to make, but it’s also the way that they look in flight: With uncannily linear…
Borys Drozhak has a vision: a front line almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor networks. And it’s not a pipe dream. Ukrainian roboticists have made major strides in that direction over the past…
MIT engineers’ design could lead to a new class of aerial-aquatic vehicles for ocean exploration.
Claire chatted to Melissa Greeff from Queen’s University about autonomous navigation and learning for drones. Melissa Greeff is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University. She leads Robora Lab and is also an Ingenuity Labs Robotics and AI…
