The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded researchers of MLB Company of Santa Clara, California, for making such a drone that would be able to fly along with something from one place to another. And now the U.S. researchers have managed to make an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) called V-Bat that can carry loads of a 6-foot claw using an extendable arm.
Paul Wallich, a tech-savvy father, used to walk with his son 400 meters each morning to drop him to the bus stop. But Wallich was tired of doing this regularly. So he decided to make such a drone that will accompany his son while he goes to the bus stop, and will let Wallich track his son. Finally, Wallich has made a quadcopter. Want to know how he did that?
Human rights activists around the globe have frequently condemned drone strikes carried out by the U.S. However, behind this condemnation is the implicit fear that drones may one day advance to the point where they become autonomous in carrying out strikes. Pentagon has now assured that such a thing is not going to happen.
We keep hearing about aerial drones, which are unmanned aerial vehicles, from time to time. However, there hasn’t been any mention of ‘sea drones’ until now. Apparently, the U.S. navy has been preparing such water-borne drones and has now successfully tested an 11-meter missile-firing sea drone.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been working diligently to expand the use of drones for American national security. Whereas drones have been extensively used in foreign lands, the U.S. authorities now intend to use them also for domestic security. And this may have critical bearings on the privacy rights of the individuals.
Would you like to control a drone from your mind? Scientists have a solution. You can control an AR.Drone, especially Parrot AR.Drone 2.0, using your thoughts. Using an off-the-shelf Emotiv Electroencephalography (EEG) headset, a user can control an AR.Drone with his/her thoughts alone.
We have covered different types of Drones that is used for different purposes. But till now, we haven’t covered any news or concept of such drone that destroys pollution. Today, we’re going to cover such one. Elie Ahovi and his team have come up with the Marine Drone concept. Marine Drone is such a drone that is designed to capture underwater or oceanic pollution.
US military has been making use of drones for a long time, something which is hardly a secret anymore. Despite a number of ethical and legal problems involved with it, the US military continues its drone strategy without any hesitation. The worst part of it is that it seems to be expanding it s domestic strategy regarding drones.