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Giant Floating Sperm Or The Future Of Communications?
Stratellite by Sanswire is a stratospheric communications platform. This LTA (Lighter Than Air) vehicle is completely unmanned and can reach an altitude of over 60,000 feet. From the companies website: A Stratellite is a LTA UAV designed and built to operate in the Stratosphere at approximately 65,000ft. The vehicle is designed to stay stationary in [...]
Robot Sub Deployed To Stop Oil Leak
The oil drilling rig known as the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig was engulfed in an explosion last Tuesday. On Friday, the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico had completely sunk. Transocean, a Swiss company owned the oil rig and had leased it to BP. Currently the former oil rig site is now leaking 42,000 [...]
Robot Inspired By Blind Fish
An underwater robot named Snookie was partially inspired by blind fish like the Astyanax. Snookie is being designed at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen or TUM for short. The underwater robot is designed to take into account the following set of circumstances. Visibility under water is often limited to just a few centimeters. The infrared detectors [...]
Robot Gliders About To Embark
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences is about to launch a fleet of 9 robotic gliders into the Atlantic ocean. The gliders can last for weeks or months and only consume as much energy as a bicycle light. They navigate between the surface and up to 1,000 ft underwater in a see saw pattern while [...]
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. [...]