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Fulfillment Centers Soon to Ride Rails and Dispatch Amazon Delivery Drones Drones In The News New Drone Technology Top Drone News Stories 

Fulfillment Centers to Ride Rails and Dispatch Amazon Delivery Drones

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Amazon aims to patent fulfillment centers that can ride the rails and dispatch Amazon Delivery Drones SOURCE : https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-aims-patent-fulfillment-centers-can-ride-rails-dispatch-drones/ If Amazon follows through on a pair of patent applications, future fulfillment centers could be transported on their rounds by trains, ships or trucks and deliver their goods with autonomous drones flying out from the tops of shipping containers. The on-demand system for package delivery is covered in two applications that were filed a year and a half ago but published just today. The inventors are principal software engineer Brian Beckman…

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The Pentagon wants to win future wars with mind-controlled drones New Drone Technology Top Drone News Stories 

The Pentagon wants to win future wars with mind-controlled drones

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The next war might include mind-controlled drones SOURCE : https://www.militarytimes.com/2018/09/20/the-next-war-might-include-mind-controlled-drones/ The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has overseen trials using mind-controlled drones for use by the military. According to The Daily Beast, these trials were computer simulations that are the precursor to what could lead to robotics that are controlled by the mind of a human operator. The Military Times asked DARPA for comment regarding the experiment. An email from a spokesman from DARPA was able to shed light on the experiment, seemingly fit for science fiction. “Using a bidirectional…

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Ballard Launches Next-generation Fuel-cell System for Drones New Drone Technology Top Drone News Stories 

Ballard launches next-generation fuel-cell system for drones

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Ballard Power Systems announced that the company has developed a next-generation fuel cell propulsion system to power unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones. Ballard has also received a follow-on contract from Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, for extended durability testing of the 1.3-kW system to power test flights of its ScanEagle UAV platform. Ballard and Insitu have partnered over the past two years to integrate Ballard’s prior generation of fuel cell technology – a complete hydrogen power system for an unmanned fixed-wing and Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) platforms –…

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Dronecode – Common, shared open-source platform for UAVs

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  Dronecode is an open source, collaborative project that brings together existing and future open-source drone projects under a nonprofit structure governed by The Linux Foundation. Craig Elder has joined the Linux Foundation as the Community Manager for Dronecode after years in various roles in the industry.  He will be speaking at the upcoming InterDrone conference about Dronecode so we wanted to reach out and ask him a few questions ahead of the event. Q. You have had an interesting career working on AUVs and UAVs. Could you tell our readers…

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Insurance Company Drones – The industry is being transformed

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Insurance Company Drones are benefiting us all Hans / Pixabay The team at Property Casualty 360 has a good article on insurance company drones which I would encourage people to read.  The article does a nice job of providing an overview of what a drone is and how it can benefit insurers broadly. Here is a small portion of the article on insurance drones. “Currently, the use of UAS in commercial applications is only allowed with an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under Section 333 of the FAA…

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No More UAV Sales In UAE

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Originally published on Aero-news Network. “If you thought we had it bad with the FAA’s stance on UAVs here in the U.S., consider this. The UAE government in Abu Dhabi has banned the future sale of small UAVs in that country until legislation and regulations can be issued by the relevant authorities there. According to the online news source Emirates 24/7, the Abu Dhabi Business Center, which is affiliated with the Department of Economic Development, halted sales in an effort to slow the spread of the aircraft, and their “improper…

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Kickstarter Drone Project: LAB, The Living Aerial UAV

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The pace of change in this space is faster than ever, with new companies popping up everywhere.  We are also seeing crowd funded projects on Kickstarter, like this one for a living aerial UAV. This group is looking to raise $50,000 for the project and currently has 16 backers pledging $1840.   Here is some information from Kickstarter on the project. “LAB is a drone, whose brain and face is a smart phone. Everyone can program the brain of LAB, rendering expressions and emotions on the phone display and even…

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