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Libyan Rebels Get Drone
Canadian company Aeron Labs has sold an Aeryon Scout to the Libyan rebels for an undisclosed amount. This quadroter drone can be set up with a pre planned flight path, or you can just touch the touchscreen to tell it where to go. The particular version the rebels received also has a thermal imaging camera, [...]
Robot Helicopter
A new robot helicopter by Vanguard Defense called Shadowhawk has been released. Shadowhawk has a range of 35 miles and can fly up to 70 miles an hour. It can come equipped with a turbine or piston engine. All models come with a Sony FCB EX-980 CCDTV camera as well as a FLIR Photon UTAM-32 [...]
Amazing Spycopter
From Aeryon Labs in Canada comes an amazing new quadrotor called Scout. Scout weighs only around 1 kilogram and while carried disassembled, it quickly snaps together. Scout has a range of 3 kilometers, can travel up to 50 kilometers an hour and withstand 80 kilometer an hour gusts of wind. Pre planned flight paths can [...]
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 [...]