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Team Studies Drone Strikes on Airplanes by Firing Them into …

The institute has begun to perform initial impact tests with drone batteries and motors. “Using compressed air, we accelerated these two components to speeds ranging from 115 to 255 meters per second and fired them at aluminum plates up to eight millimeters in thickness that were mounted in a test bench,” …

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Boeing and MIT Build New Wind Tunnel for Drones and Other Ae…

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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Microsoft Tests Drone AI in Nevada, Teaching a Drone to Fly …

Photo courtesy Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems Software big Microsoft has partnered with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) to check Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise in a Microsoft sailplane. The 16 ½ -foot, 12 ½- pound sailplane used AI …

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