Monthly Archives: July 2015

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  USA Today: Facebook reveals plans for drone-based Internet in the sky

  Posted on July 31, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, Spotlight on Programs.

  MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook on Thursday revealed more details about its plan to find cost-effective ways to provide Internet access to the 10% of the Earth’s population that lives far from cell towers or land lines. The solution: Drones the size of a Boeing 737— launched by helium balloons. Powered by the sun, each 1,000 lb. drone would fly lazy [...]

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  USA Today: Aerial photos, surveys most popular business uses for drones, industry finds

  Posted on July 31, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, Spotlight on Programs.

    Real-estate businesses won nearly a third of the first 500 commercial drone permits granted by theFederal Aviation Administration, an industry study obtained Thursday by USA TODAY found. The most popular use — showcasing properties with video taken from the air — accounted for 153 of the early permits granted by the FAA beginning in [...]

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  Government Technology: Researchers Develop, Test GPS-Equipped Water Drone in Bridge Inspections

  Posted on July 30, 2015 by auvsiadmin in Enhancing Public Safety, News, STEM Education and Learning.

  The Florida Department of Transportation has funded research on autonomous waterborne vehicles that could make bridge inspections faster, safer and more efficient.  Drones are coming to the waterways of Florida. A research team at Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science has received a $187,000 grant from the Florida Department of Transportation [...]

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  WUSA9: Hopkins experts study drone use to move blood samples

  Posted on July 30, 2015 by auvsiadmin in Disaster Response, News, Spotlight on Programs, STEM Education and Learning.

  Researchers at Johns Hopkins successfully transport blood samples in drone flight.  WASHINGTON (WUSA)- Drones flying over head stir mixed public opinion. One local study may just turn the tide as they show the positive effect drones may have on healthcare worldwide. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that flying blood samples in small drones for [...]

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  Cnet: F-U-N-D-E-D: The crowd wants their robots at home — and under the covers

  Posted on July 28, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, STEM Education and Learning.

  Silicon Valley investments in robot startups surge amid crowdfunding campaigns backing technologies that track increasingly intimate parts of people’s lives.  The masses have been speaking with their cash this year, donating hundreds of millions of dollars through crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter. And this week, Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists answered with theirs, giving the [...]

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• Seattle Times: New drone flies into powerful hurricanes to gather data

  Posted on July 28, 2015 by auvsiadmin in Disaster Response, Environmental Protection, News, Spotlight on Programs.

  A new drone that can fly through a powerful hurricane and gather real-time data for forecasters could greatly enhance lifesaving storm predictions.  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Coyote drone weighs just 13 pounds, but can whip through a powerful hurricane, skimming the sea’s surface to scoop up valuable information in an area that has [...]

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  Fast Company: This “World’s First” Artificially Intelligent Ad is a Test of Automated Creativity

  Posted on July 28, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, Spotlight on Programs.

  M&C Saatchi has developed an outdoor campaign which “evolves” unique ads based on its audience’s reactions, which makes it the world’s first artificial intelligence poster campaign, the agency claims. Built around a single site in central London, the campaign, for invented coffee brand Bahio, is powered by a genetic algorithm that tests different executions by [...]

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  MarketWatch: Sony’s drones will have a different mission

  Posted on July 24, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, Spotlight on Programs.

  Sony announces partnership with ZMP to form Aerosense drone firm.  Sony is the latest company to get into drones, but not in the way that you would expect. The company likely won’t use drones to film its upcoming emoji movie, and they probably won’t go the route of GoPro in introducing a quadcopter drone. Instead, Sony’s drones [...]

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  Popular Science: Autonomous Underwater Probe Discovers American Revolution Shipwreck

  Posted on July 24, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News.

  Intrepid Robot Explorer North Carolina has a history of shipwrecks. The area off the coast of North Carolina is known as the ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic’ for a reason. It is the final resting place of countless ships, sunk by storms and treacherous shoals and sandbars. Underwater archaeologists have located many of these wrecks, including [...]

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  Wired: AI Nurse Could Shorten a Doctor’s Visit to 90 Seconds

  Posted on July 24, 2015 by auvsiadmin in News, Spotlight on Programs.

  IT’S NOT HARD to see the appeal of an online doctor’s appointment. You don’t have to risk catching germs from other patients. And you don’t have to commute to the doctor’s office, or sit around the waiting room flipping through lousy magazines while listening to screaming kids. But for doctors, these appointments take just as much [...]

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