Photo by Kari Greer, Original public domain image $2.7 million has been granted to 5 universities in FAA drone research awards, which will support work on leveraging drone technology for disaster preparedness and emergency response. For years now, drones have proven to be invaluable in search and rescue, firefighting, mapping of …
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Original public domain image U.S. Navy Provides WPI Researchers with Funding for Underwater Drone Tech by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby The U.S. Navy has awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers Nikolaos Gatsonis and Michael Demetriou with $347,843 for the development of a computational model utilizing data from a …
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Recent research from the Mercatus Center argues that drone highways situated over existing public roads could be the fastest way to full integration of commercial drones. The Mercatus Center research, written by senior fellow Brent Skorup and Harvard University JD student Connor Haaland rank the 50 U.S. states in terms of …
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Source: University of South Australia When we think about a drone, we think about raptor wings cutting across blue skies or dragonfly rotors buzzing high over a cityscape. But flapping? Like a cardinal? Or a crane? What a bird-brain concept … or is it? According to a research team from …
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By Wikipedia User:Geographer (Self-photographed) [CC BY 1.0 ] San Diego State University is driving innovation within the drone business with their new Center for Unmanned Systems Technologies. Called merely the Drone Lab, the Center is making drones out there to school and college students to use for analysis. “As drones …
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By User:Daderot (Self-photographed) [Public domain], by way of Wikimedia Commons Aerospace large Boeing will act because the lead donor in an $18 million challenge permitting MIT to assemble a brand new, up to date wind tunnel. The substitute of the 79-year-old Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel with a brand new facility …
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Danish Minister of Higher Education and Science Ulla Tørnæs announces Denmark’s New Drone Strategy at SDU. Source: SDU Denmark’s drone research program is flying higher after receiving a multi-million-dollar government boost. The University of Southern Denmark last month received a $4.4 million grant from the Danish government to fund a …
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