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Posts tagged Drone
Mar 5, 2014 “Rumor: Facebook Eyeing Titan Aerospace’s Atmospheric Satellite Drones”
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Rumor say that Facebook would want to start with a fleet of 11,000 of the $2 million Solara drones, and send them all to the skies above Africa, where they’ll lay down some not especially fast but quite pervasive ultra-low cost or free Internet.
Feb 11, 2014 “Announcing the new Drone Social Innovation Award”
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The Drone Social Innovation Award is a new initiative of the rapidly growing Drone User Group Network (DUGN). With over 3000 members across North America, Australia and Europe, DUGN is the largest community in the world dedicated to teaching people to build and operate their own flying robots.
Dec 10, 2013 “Forget the octocopter, let’s talk about Kiva”
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Given all the chatter on drones and automation, robohub thought it would be a good time to dive deeper into the Kiva opportunity and potential impact on leverage/margins. For the sake of our analysis, robohub take a look at what the Kiva margin impact could be if Kiva automation were to be integrated across all of AMZN’s NA fulfillment operations. In short, robohub estimate that Kiva could drive fulfillment cost savings in the $450-900M range or be 60-120 bps accretive to CSOI margin in NA alone – underscoring a bigger global opportunity.
Dec 2, 2013 “Quadrocopter failsafe algorithm”
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The video shows an automatic failsafe algorithm that allows a quadrocopter to gracefully cope with the loss of a propeller. The propeller was mounted without a nut, and thus eventually vibrates itself loose. The failure is detected automatically by the system, after which the vehicle recovers and returns to its original position. The vehicle finally executes a controlled, soft landing, on a user’s command.
Oct 30, 2013 “Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions”
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Generally, flying robots are programmed to avoid obstacles, which is far from easy in cluttered environments. At the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, we think that flying robots should be able to physically interact with their surroundings. Take insects: they often collide with obstacles and continue flying afterwards. We thus designed GimBall, a flying robot that can collide with objects seamlessly.
Oct 14, 2013 “Is drone delivery really a robot startup?”
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Australian startup Zookal is making news today with their claims to be the world’s first drone delivery company. Zookal is a textbook rental startup that also provides a digital note platform and internships for international students. Zookal are using drones developed by the University of Sydney engineering students and technically Flirtey is the actual drone startup.
June 12, 2013 “Video: Drones, Quadrupeds, Humanoids, and More Robots From ICRA 2013”
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Video: Drones, Quadrupeds, Humanoids, and More Robots From ICRA 2013
January 16, 2013 “Parrot Adds GPS and Partial Autonomy to AR Drone”
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Parrot has been working on two hardware add-ons, including a 1,500 mAh battery pack that’ll give you 50% more flying time, and (much more excitingly) a GPS receiver. Sadly, the GPS receiver isn’t set up to allow full autonomy (yet). At launch, it’ll simply record a track of your AR Drone’s flight, as well as helping to keep the drone from drifting, but obviously, there’s a lot that Parrot (or other clever blokes) should be able to do with this.
