Imagine a drone that’s no bigger than a small baby swallow (don’t dare ask me, “African or European?”). Chinese drone maker DJI (who’s also getting into e-bikes) may already have a super small, super cheap drone available, though not quite ...
One of the biggest questions looming over the drone space is how to best use the tech. Inspection has become a key driver, as the autonomous copters are deployed to dangerous or remote spaces like power plants and oil rigs. ...
Skydio, maker of the most autonomous consumer drone there ever was, has announced that it is getting out of the consumer drone space completely, as of this past week. The company will be focusing on “over 1,500 enterprise and public ...
I’m standing on top of 100 meters of ice, watching a drone crisscross the Slakbreen glacier on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, more than 600 kilometers north of the mainland. I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. This week, we’re featuring a special selection of videos from ICRA 2023! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events ...
