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01:10

X47B First Touch And Go Landing on USS George HW Bush

The Navy’s unmanned and autonomous X-47B continues to hit new milestones. Less than a week after completing its first catapult launch from a carrier deck last Tuesday the Unmanned Combat Aerials System (UCAS) executed its first touch and go landings–that’s when an aircraft touches down like it’s landing but then accelerates and takes off again–aboard […]

03:00

Crazy Engineering: Mars Helicopter

JPL engineers are working on a small helicopter that could ‘scout’ a trail for future Mars rovers, but getting a chopper that could fly in the Martian atmosphere is tricky. Episode 2 of Crazy Engineering.

02:34

X-47B | Ultimate Weapons

Currently a demonstration model, the X-47B is the future of U.S. Navy unmanned aviation. | For more, visit http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/ultimate-weapons/#mkcpgn=ytmil1 Subscribe to Military Channel! | http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=militarychannel

Toward drone autonomous flight – collision avoidance advances

Both government and private industry developments are helping to push us forward toward full drone autonomous flight capability. Advances in technology and systems for collision avoidance are moving the drone industry closer to realizing full autonomous flight. U.S. Government Project On the government side, the U.S. government DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently presented its progress […]

02:32

Controlling a Flying Robot… With Your Mind

Researchers at the University of Minnesota developed a method of controlling a robot with a person’s mind. The study has “the potential to help people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.” (Video by University of Minnesota) Click here to subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/wsj Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wsjlive Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJLive […]

02:58

Our Drone Future

https://twitter.com/alexcornell http://www.alexcornell.com/ GoPro, DJI Phantom, After Effects, Premier, Logic Our Drone Future explores the technology, capability, and purpose of drones, as their presence becomes an increasingly pervasive reality in the skies of tomorrow. In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones for urban security. Human officers monitor drone feeds remotely, and data reports are displayed […]

01:44

Alibaba’s Delivery Drones Over China

Alibaba Group’s Taobao Marketplace shopping website partnered with China logistics company YTO Express in a one-off trial of drone technology, delivering ginger tea packets to 450 customers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou over a three-day period starting Feb. 4, 2015.

06:30

US Navy – X-47B UCAS First Touch & Go Landing Tests On USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) [1080p]

USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, At Sea (NNS) — The Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) has begun touch and go landing operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) May 17 2013. For UCAS-D, this represents the most significant technology maturation of the program. Ship relative navigation and precision touchdown […]

Japan Cellular Drone – tested at distance of 50km from base station

Mobile phone service provider, NTT DoCoMo recently performed the first test in Japan to remotely control a small UAV (drone) using the cellular/mobile phone communication network (LTE network). The test included controlling the drone and the drone sending real time camera video and flight data to a base station located at a distance of 50km […]

11:17

Black Dart is the US’ Answer to Drones: War Games

Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News The US military has been experimenting with the use of drones for almost a century, but it’s only recently that technological advances have made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) a game changer in warfare. Today, at least 79 countries field drones; 23 of those countries arm them. Earlier this year, […]

22:23

Drone On: the Future of UAV Over the US

From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few companies to let us take their flying spy robots for a spin. Originally aired on Motherboard.vice.com Like Motherboard on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv […]

03:01

Controlling a Drone with your Mind

A brain-controlled drone is featured as the BBC watches/films. A drone specialist in Portugal demonstrates a flight controlled by human brainwaves, and suggests a future of large-scale unmanned flying. A company by the name of Tekever is behind developing this technology which they say in the short term could be used to help people with […]

01:13

Netflix Drone To Home

Netflix has come up with a new DVD delivery service – Drone 2 Home. Get your DVDs in mere minutes using the almost robust drone delivery service.

U.S. Navy Flying-Wing Drone Moving Closer to Reality

DARPA and U.S. Navy’s joint program for development of a UAV for small-deck ships is progressing toward the target date of 2018 to begin test flights. The Tern project design is a flying-wing type drone that would lift off like a helicopter and then transition to wing-borne flight. The above video is a Phase 3 […]

03:36

BIZZBY SKY – Drones On-Demand

On-demand lifestyle services App BIZZBY is trialling BIZZBY SKY, a groundbreaking consumer collect and deliver on-demand drone service using the Company’s proven realtime smartphone technology platform. According to Bizzby: Based in London’s TechCity, the company’s research and development team have developed a fully autonomous drone that’s capable of delivering small items between addresses at the […]

04:27

Air Force Bugbot Nano Drone Technology

Air Force Bugbots Nano Drone video gives a peak inside what nano-drone technology the Federal Government is currently implementing within the united states more than a scary thought or sci-fi movie, they have arrived. The deadly, insect-sized drones of the future – Unobtrusive, Invasive, and Lethal are here as depicted in this old video The […]

03:33

Computer Vision Apps for Drones | Percepto

This company is planning to launch a new product that includes a processing unit and a camera and pre-installed applications, including their “The Director” which “will assess and capture the best angles and frames for scenes.” They hope also to get users to create new applications using their SDK. From Percepto’s Indiegogo page, Percepto: Computer […]

01:24

DHL to Deliver Medicine via Drone

Another delivery drone will hit the skies–this time it’s Deutsche Post DHL’s parcelcopter. On Wednesday, DHL said it will start using an unmanned aircraft to carry medicine to the small German island of Juist. Photo: DHL Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy Visit the WSJ channel for more video: https://www.youtube.com/wsjdigitalnetwork More from the Wall […]

US Military Advancing VTOL Drone Development

The U.S. military is advancing development of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV systems, with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Navy being involved in several leading edge VTOL drone programs. VTOL X-Plane One of the programs of interest is the DARPA lead VTOL Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program is a cross-pollination […]

07:05

Drone Boom: Why Drones Aren’t Just for Dropping Bombs Anymore

When you hear the word drone you may immediately think of bombs being dropped in the Middle East or the surveillance of citizens here in the United States, but engineers and aviation geeks have wondered for decades if unmanned flight might solve a few of our world’s problems or just make our lives a little […]

07:46

Watch the Preprogrammed Drone That Flies Itself

March 19 (Bloomberg) — Skycatch CEO Chris Sanz discusses the possible commercial applications for drones. He speaks with Cory Johnson and Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg) — Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg “Bloomberg West” is the only daily news program focused exclusively on technology, innovation, and the future of business. […]

01:09

Facebook talks about solar-powered drones | CNET News

From CNET News. Facebook’s CTO shows first prototype of a solar-powered drone which would fly 60-90,000 ft in air and be on station for months at a time, beaming down Internet access. Using these drones would help to make Internet connectivity available for the whole world. These are not your little quadcopter drones you see […]

01:13

Introducing Nixie: the first wearable camera that can fly

Nixie, you can wear it and fly it. The small micro drone can be attached to your wrist when not in use and then deployed as a selfie camera. From the Nixie website http://flynixie.com, With a gesture, Nixie takes off, captures the moment, and comes right back. Some features notes from the Nixie website: * […]

Drones + Blockchain = Combining Two Exciting Technologies | Projects Around World

There is a growing list of use cases for blockchain for drone applications. In the early stages of the market for both blockchain and drone technologies, there are still only a limited number of projects, and in various stages of development. The projects span from using blockchain for the high trust identity of a drone […]

00:51

MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV first shipboard flight

Watch the above video for a look at the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter operating from the USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) during its first shipboard flight Dec. 16 , 2014 off the coast of Virginia. The new, larger Fire Scout conducted a series of flight events during the five-day underway period to prepare for […]