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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. [...]
Drones Over Houston
I’m not sure how old this video is. One commenter states it is 2 years old. That being said, it seems like the Houston police are using an Insitu ScanEagle to spy on it’s residents. The news team from KPR2 in Houston followed the drone in a helicopter and was told by the police they [...]
Robot iPhone Parrot
Well, it doesn’t look anything like a parrot, but is a damn cool drone controlled by your iPhone! Recently unveiled at the CES being currently held in Las Vegas, this drone is designed to fly inside or outside, seems easy to control and comes with 2 augmented reality games. This drone is really a WiFi [...]