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Team Nixie is developing the first wearable drone camera, which can be worn around your wrist. The team will be presenting their prototype for the Intel Make It Wearable Challenge Finale on November 3, 2014 in San Francisco.
Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios have partnered to develop a short film featuring 10 quadcopters in a flying dance performance. The collaboration resulted in a unique, interactive choreography where humans and drones move in sync. Precise computer control allows for a large performance and movement vocabulary of the quadcopters and opens the door to many more applications in the future. Source: Youtube
” DHL Parcel will soon launch a unique pilot project on the North Sea island of Juist: For the first time worldwide, medications and other urgently needed goods will be delivered to the island at certain times of the day by DHL parcelcopter.
The flight will be completely automated for the first time. This means that a pilot does not have to take any action at all during any phase of the flight. To ensure that the DHL parcelcopter operates reliably, flies safely and always lands at the right location, an autopilot with automated takeoff and landing functions was developed. This system is robust and reliable, and has been extensively tested. At an altitude of 50 meters, the parcelcopter can travel up to 18 meters per second depending on wind speed. “
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Quarkson is a drone company from Portugal building a constellation of SkyOrbiters. They build two types, the SkyOrbiter LA (Low Altitude) and HA (High Altitude) version.
The SkyOrbiter HA55 is a high-altitude flexible, non-polluting and cost-effective platform designed as an alternative to satellites and terrestrial systems. This system is capable of flying around the world and spreading internet access to every corner of the world.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
FEATURES High Altitude Global Persistence at all latitudes
WINGSPAN Approximately 55 meters
ENDURANCE Up to 5 years
RANGE Up to 5.000.000 km
ALTITUDE 22.000 meters
PAYLOAD Up to 35 kg depending on the mission profile
At the University of Virginia, engineers are printing airplanes.
Three-dimensional printing is the production, or “printing,” of actual objects, such as toys or parts for devices, by using a machine that traces out layers of melted plastic in specific shapes until it builds a piece to the exact specifications of a computer-aided drawing produced by a designer.
With the increased availability of user-friendly computer programs and 3D printers, that designer can be anybody. Eventually, almost any object, or parts for objects, may become 3D printable – even including body implants – in a range of materials, including metals.
U.Va. engineers and engineering students are using sophisticated 3-D printing technology to make an array of objects, including a plastic airplane for a Department of the Army project.
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Crowdsouring the counting of wildlife with Aerial Clicker. Look for Rhino’s, Elephants, Giraffes etc with high resolution aerial imagery taken from drones.
“As part of their wildlife protection efforts, rangers at Kuzikus want to know how many animals (and what kinds) are roaming about their wildlife reserve. So Kuzikus partnered with Drone Adventures and EPFL’s Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) and the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG) to launch the SAVMAP project, which stands for “Near real-time ultrahigh-resolution imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles for sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation in semi-arid savanna under regional and global change.”
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Source: http://micromappers.org/
“You can fly the Iris+ Drone manually using the controller or use the advanced 3PV Follow Me mode that turns IRIS+ into your own hands-free camera crew. And our tablet-based software makes flight planning exactly this easy: If you can draw it, you can fly it.”
Prices start at $750
Source: 3D Robotics Iris+
