Posts Tagged «unmanned aerial vehicles»
Drone athleticism: astounding new quadrotor control, and beyond June 14, 2013 at 9:03 am
New control techniques for drones now let them perform aerial acrobatics faster than the eye can follow. When combined with gesture based control, multidrone formations can be tamed with the wave of an arm. The standard quadrotor is still the chosen form-factor for the all-purpose drone, but as their flightspeeds enter the regime where aerodynamic effects begin to dominate, hybrid wing designs may soon prevail.
US Navy’s X-47B becomes first unmanned jet to launch from a carrier May 15, 2013 at 12:53 pm
Off the coast of Virginia, on the deck of the USS George H. W. Bush, the US Navy made history by successfully launching the first unmanned aircraft.
$999 will get you a hexacopter drone designed for aerial photography January 23, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Instead of renting a full-size helicopter or BASE jumping off the tallest building in the world to capture those aerial photographs you want, consider funding the eye3 UAV project on Kickstarter.