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Ambassador Of Death Brings Peace
The Karrar is a 4 meter long robotic plane built by Iran with a 600 mile range. What the plane can actually carry seems to be up for debate. On one hand it is supposed to be capable of carrying four cruise missiles, but some say those are way too heavy for it’s size. Others [...]
Self Assembling Drones
The set of robots known as the Distributed Flight Array comes to us from researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Lead researchers Raymond Ouong and Raffaello D’Andrea have developed a system where the individual single propeller components can drive around and dock with each other, as shown here. Once enough of [...]
Quadrotor Drones And Crazy Maneuvers
From the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania comes a quadrotor that can slide through your open window or stick to a wall with velcro. While these maneuvers are downright WTF? we want to know if the quadrotor has enough power to free itself from the velcro. Hat tip to Morgan. Link via (Gizmodo)
Helicopter Drone Lands UK Police In Hot Water
Merseyside police in England used a helicopter drone to track down a teenager who had run away from a stolen car. The robot used thermal imaging cameras and the police did finally catch the suspect. The problem is that the police were not allowed to use the drone and themselves committed a crime in the [...]
RQ-4 Global Hawk Deployed To Haiti
A RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV (Unmanned Ariel Vehicle) was on the way to Afghanistan and has been re-routed to Haiti. The Global Hawk is a surveillance aircraft capable of covering up to 40,000 miles a day. This drone will provide overhead views of the situation in Haiti and the photos will be freely available online. [...]