Tag: Drones
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A Fantastic Show Of Light As LED Fitted Car and Drones Dance While Circling (Video)
A really awe-inspiring video that shows us what happens when many quadcopters as well as a car, are fitted with lights and then made to move and dance around in circles. While at the same time a long exposure camera is filming them. It can be deemed as if we are painting light whereas the…
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Air Shepherd: Drones To Fight Against Elephant Poaching
In Africa 100,000 elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012. At this rate, poaching may threaten the very existence of the species within next 10 years. Fighting against this illegal activity is not easy, but the use of drones will possibly change that. Here is a video presentation of the project Air Shepherd. In recent…
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Drones Stop Chinese Students From Cheating Using 007 Style Gadgets
In the previous, Chinese authorities had discovered students using high-tech gadgets for cheating in university entrance exam “Gaoko”. They used wireless gadgets to get answers from their helpers outside. As a response, this year drones have been used to counter cheating. Equipped with wireless sensors they monitor radio signals above the exam hall for the…
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Incredible: Drones To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year
Lauren Fletcher, an engineer at NASA, wants to fight against deforestation by developing drones for large-scale reforestation. This approach can plant a billion trees every year. We tell you more about this project by the environmental specialist. After 20 years as an engineer at drones! “We will fight against deforestation at industrial scale by a large-scale industrial plantations”, he…
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An Ultra Fast Drone Ambulance To Fight The Cardiac Arrests
A prototype of “drone ambulance, able to quickly carry a defibrillator to victims of cardiac arrest, was presented Tuesday at the University of Delft, Netherlands. It seems to have created lots of buzz in emergency services. “About 800,000 people in the European Union suffer from cardiac arrests each year, and only 8% of them survive” , says Momont…
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This Tiny Robot Will Amaze You By Its Robustness And Fast Action
We predict that this unique Micro-UAV by CyPhy Works will soon be famous. Its performances is just amazing when compared to its tiny size. The American manufacturer hopes that it will be used by the special forces units in their missions. 6 propellers. 80 grams and 2 hours of autonomy, you will indeed be impressed by this…
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Google Wing: Google Tests Its Drone Delivery Project In Australia
Google has done some more trials of its drone delivery system in Australia. Google has been secretly working on this project, entitled Project Wing, for the last two years. If these aerial drones are deployed they could deliver a product at home within few minutes. Google could not remain silent after the announcement by Amazon about its new drone…
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Robosub 2014: The Amazing Competiton Of Submarine Drones
The 17th edition of the international Robosub competition took place in San Diego (USA) in early August. Much less publicized as compared to DARPA Robotics Challenge, the tournament organized by AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) involves Autononous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) or submarine drones. The aim of the contest sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is…
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Paris Police To Experiment With Drones To Combat Crimes
The Paris Police will soon be experimenting with drones for the surveillance of sensitive areas in the French capital. On the other side of Atlantic, majority of American cities have already acquired many drones for the same purpose. The adoption of drones will facilitate the Paris police in the collection of information from places and situations where…
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3D Printed Drones And Self-Healing Aircraft: BAE Imagines Future of UAVs and 3D printers
The engineers of the defense company BAE Systems are working on the futuristic concepts that are potentially realisable by the year by 2040. It will be possible to use 3D printers to prints small unmanned drones to be used in various fields. Researchers have fun imagining how the future technologies could be applied to the field of…
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Hexo+: A Drone That Can Follow And Film You Using GoPro Camera
A French company has designed an autonomous unmanned drone that is capable of tracking and filming the moving objects. The company has launched a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding that has generated lots of craze among the extreme sports lovers. Hexo + is clearly a must-have for all sportsmen wishing to film their performance. Until now, whenever you wanted to…
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MIT Developing Drones That Can Recharge From Power Lines
A team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been working on a project for several years that would allow drones to locate power lines and recharge their batteries from them, before resuming their flight. A technology still under development that could revolutionize the commercial use of drones. A group of students from the Computer Science and…
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Rolls Royce Now in the Industry of Tugboats!
Rolls Royce is one of the renowned car making companies in the world. Whenever, it comes up with a new model, it is always with catchy looks and the car is assumed to be one of the best in the world. How does it sound to you when you listen someone saying that a tugboat…
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Drones Can Now Hit With 80000 Volts Shock
Drones are the most effective and powerful tools in the technology of warfare. They are extensively being used across the globe. A lot of research is being made in this regard. Besides their effectiveness in war, they are also being used for reforestation in Sumatra National Park. Consequently, we can say that drones could be…
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Examples Of Beautiful Light Painting Using Drones (Photo Gallery)
Long exposure photography is one of the most popular photography techniques in which shutter speed and duration is adjusted so that the stationery elements in the scene are captured as it is while the moving parts of the scene get blurred. Earlier we had written an article on Long Exposure Photography: Japanese Landscapes Illuminated By…