The Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) started as a research project in 2012 to provide a unique capability to Police and Armed Services to rapidly deploy, extract and remove both blocking and suspect vehicles from vulnerable positions such as enclosed infrastructure spaces, tunnels, low bridges as well as under-building and underground car parks. Vehicles […]
Using a robotic telescope at Lick Observatory that scans the sky night after night, astronomers have discovered three planets – supersized Earths ‑ around a nearby star. “The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses seven to eight times the mass of Earth and orbits very close to their host star,” […]
In response to the recent 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal, several companies are deployed their Drones to enable ground-based rescue teams to collect critical visual information and deploy rescue resources quickly, carefully and exactly where they are most needed. See the footage of Drones showing earthquake damage: Video source: Kishor Rana
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is moving forward with a plan to land an unmanned probe on the moon’s surface by as early as fiscal 2018.This would make Japan the fourth nation to achieve the feat, following the former Soviet Union, the United States and China. The plan calls for launching a “SLIM” probe […]
University of Queensland agricultural science student Michael Godfrey has developed a drone that spreads beneficial insects onto crops, potentially saving farmers time and money. During his Summer Science Scholarship, Mr Godfrey investigated if drones could be used to spread the beneficial Californicus mite onto crops infected with two spotted mites. Mr Godfrey said two spotted […]
ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference and is a premier international forum for robotics researchers to present their work. The 2015 conference will be held May 26-30, 2015 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. The conference will include plenary and mini-plenary sessions, contributed paper sessions, workshops and […]
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated fully autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) with the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) aircraft today, marking the first time in history that an unmanned aircraft has refueled in-flight. This is another historic aviation milestone for the X-47B, which in 2013 became the first […]