Robotics Education Journal
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Steve Trimble of Aviation Week magazine/Aviationweek[dot]com reported in early September that the low-cost Model 437 shown in the artist’s rendering is a “paper concept” intended to meet requirements for a new class of attritable autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
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ATA, LLC announced 9 September that a demonstration of the Virginia Flight Information Exchange (VA-FIX), which provides data from state and local governments for safe unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, will be featured during the 90th Annual Convention and Trade Show of the National Ass
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The team at Drone Digital recently publi
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The DARPA Subterranean Challenge is focused on the world beneath us - as competitors vie to rapidly and remotely map, navigate, and search complex underground environments.
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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., has announced a $12.4 million order to Aurora to move to phase-one of the “Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors” (CRANE) project.
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Fortem Technologies, a technology leader in C-UAS, caught our eye at the recent AUVSI Xponential conference. NREF is pleased to bring you this exclusive interview with Fortem on its pioneering, state-of-the-art C-UAS solutions.
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Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team at Boston Dynamics to experiment with new behaviors.
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As shown at the WAIC 2021 show held at the Shanghai Expo Center in July, the robotics systems in development in China go well beyond self-driving cars and platforms designed to move inventory in warehouses.
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TheVerge.com reported that Elon Musk has announced a TESLA Humanoid robot that is designed to be a general purpose assistant.
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On June 4, 2021, The U.S. Navy refueled an F-18 fighter using an unmanned drone for the first time. The drone, dubbed MQ-25 Stingray, uses the Navy’s probe-and-drogue refueling method. The operation took place near Mascoutah, Illinois, with an F/A-18 Super Hornet.
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The largest gathering of robotics firms, AI developers, and land, sea & air drone product and service companies will take place August 16 – 19 at Xponential 2021 in Atlanta.
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In a key advance in drone C-UAS technology, Robotican successfully demonstrated an autonomous drone interception for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD).
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A new type of electric, fixed-wing drone recently achieved a world record for time in the air within the group-2 fully electric category.
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As Isabelle Khurshudyan recently reported on Washingtonpost.com, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, not far from Vladivostok’s hills in Russky Island, the Kremlin hopes to create a hub for robotic
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This year’s Beijing Military Expo opened on June 5th, but it wasn’t the lethal military gear that drew attention so much as the advanced fish-like robots on display. In addition to the static display of RoboShark, the lively bionic Arowana was a show highlight.
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The CRUSER Naval Postgraduate School (CRUSER) is a highly respected academic institution noted for its work in unmanned autonomous systems and for its contributions in other leading technology and defense arenas.
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A new algorithm called “Sniffy Bug” shows how tiny drones will do dangerous work even in areas where they can’t use GPS. A new research paper documents the creation of the first autonomous small drone swarm that can detect gas leaks as well as other possible chemical threats.
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As posted 14 July by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS: On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades.