Apr 22, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, Featured, Space
The aerial exploration of Mars has begun. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red Planet early this morning (April 19), performing the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper was...
Mar 4, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Aeronautics, Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration this week named Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as one of five airports nationwide to help it develop drone detection and mitigation equipment. Drones can pose a danger to planes, both in the air and on the ground. It is an...
Oct 8, 2020 | Aerial Vehicles
The mobility disruption is all set to takeoff…skywards. A pioneering global survey by Frost & Sullivan on urban aero mobility (UAM) highlights that the day when air taxis will become as commonplace as your standard black cab isn’t that far off. Consider that by...
Aug 12, 2020 | Aerial Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots
Last year was a quiet turning point in the use of flying robots in an unexpected space: Indoors. Increasingly sophisticated sensor and mapping technologies, machine learning, and engineering and materials science have combined to enable drones to operate inside...
Aug 12, 2020 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles
EHang, an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) development company, has unveiled what it says is the world’s first large-payload firefighting aerial vehicle built to tackle fires in high-rise buildings. According to EHang, the expansion of dense cities and...
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