Archive for the ‘drones’ category: Page 146
Aug 28, 2016
Flirtey flies pies for Domino’s in New Zealand
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has demonstrated delivery of hot pizzas by drone in Auckland, New Zealand.
The company has a long history of embracing high-tech concepts. Last year, they tested out a four-wheeled, driverless pizza delivery vehicle. And in 2012, Domino’s launched a casual build-a-pizza game that also let players order the pizza they built digitally for real life delivery.
The company also uses e-bikes and electric scooters for delivery. In a press statement, Domino’s Group CEO and Managing Director Don Meij said:
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Aug 26, 2016
Inside the killer robot ‘arms race’ where the world’s five leading superpowers are secretly preparing for an all-out futuristic war
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: computing, drones, neuroscience, robotics/AI
GAME OF DRONES
WORLD superpowers are engaged in a feverish “arms race” to develop the first killer robots completely removed from human control, the Sun Online can reveal.
These machines will mark a dramatic escalation in computer AI from the drones and robots currently in use, all of which still require a human to press the “kill button”.
Aug 24, 2016
DARPA Wants You! To Down Rogue Drones
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military
Ever wanted to down a neighborhood nuisance drone and couldn’t? Or maybe you have some frustration that has built over time and want to release it. Well, here is your chance. DARPA wants you to down a rogue drone.
The Pentagon’s futuristic think tank is thinking about how to stop errant drones and it wants the public’s help. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office this week announced a request for information to help create “novel, flexible, mobile layered” anti-drone soluti…
Aug 23, 2016
Prepare to Takeoff – 2016’s AUS&R Unmanned Systems and Robotics Convention
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Anyone, planning to attend this November? It looks like the who’s who in Drones and Robotics.
The post is also available in: Hebrew :הכתבה זמינה גם ב
The Unmanned Systems and Robotics AUS&R 2016 international convention has been attracting the attention of world’s leading states and defense industries, including the US, India, Germany, DARPA governmental agency and many others, which had already registered to participate.
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Aug 22, 2016
Farewell Remote Controllers, Hello Brain Controlled UAV’s
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, drones, engineering, neuroscience, robotics/AI
When the Holiday season kicks off next fall (2017); I have a feeling that I may end up buying a Penny Robot or a BMI controlled drone for my niece & nephews.
The post is also available in: Hebrew :הכתבה זמינה גם ב
A new research out of Arizona State University with DARPA funding.
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Aug 22, 2016
Scientists are working on a real-life Star Trek phaser
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, cyborgs, drones, food, military, robotics/AI
Want to be the next Captain Kirk or Spock; we’re getting more close of being a Star Trek & Star Wars world with drones and fighter jets with death lasers, cyborgs with BMI technology, sabers being developed, and now the Star Trek phaser is being developed.
Every year Star Trek’s futuristic sci-fi technology comes closer to just being “technology.” We live in a world where video chats, communicators, and real-time translators are normal, where androids are becoming more and more realistic and food replicators are almost here thanks to 3D printing. The next step? Phasers!
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Aug 22, 2016
LIDAR on a chip should be 1000 times cheaper and scan 1000 times faster to revolutionize self-driving cars, drones, and robots
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, robotics/AI
DARPA and MIT are leading an effort to take what are now bulky expensive Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging (LIDAR) systems and make them small enough to fit on a microchip.
LIDAR is one of the key parts of Google’s self driving car.
MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group is developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no moving parts, and could be mass-produced at a very low cost for use in self-driving cars, drones, and robots.
Aug 19, 2016
DARPA moves ahead with plan to put anti-missile lasers on drones
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, robotics/AI
I truly hope these never malfunction while flying in areas near civilian areas.
The agency adds to a contract with Northrop to develop a small system that can be mounted on manned and unmanned aircraft.