Is this the end of manned fighter planes? đ
âThe F-35â would have no chanceâ against a âdrone fighter plane thatâs remote controlled by a human.â
At a time of fast-paced drone proliferation, militaries around the world are actively pursuing research and development in swarms.
OEC promoting Tech in Africa.
Space startup, Aevum, just unveiled the product of years of workâa sleek, autonomous, rocket-launching aircraft called Ravn X.
Continue reading “Autonomous Ravn X Drone to Launch Satellites From Airport Runways” »
The question really is not if, but when and where drone swarms, which is the next evolution of robotic warfare, will be utilised in real-time operations.
If the U.S. and China ever come to blows, this vessel will play a big part in the battle.
The U.S. Marine Corps is taking a completely new tack to providing fire support during amphibious landings: unmanned boats stocked full of suicide drones.
Continue reading “The Marines Are Loading This Mean-Looking Boat With Kamikaze Drones” »
The incredible world first, designed by Urban Air Port, will be located next to the cityâs Ricoh Arena and will allow air taxis and electric drones to land and recharge dailystar.
The Armyâs top modernization official said Monday that the Pentagon may have to relax its rules on human control over artificial intelligent combat systems to defeat swarms of enemy drones that often move too fast for soldiers to track.
All branches of the U.S. military have expressed interest in using artificial intelligence, or AI, for faster target recognition; however, the Defense Department until now has stressed that humans, not machines, will always make the decision to fire deadly weapons.
But as small unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, proliferate around the world, Army modernization officials are recognizing that swarms of fast-moving drones will be difficult to defeat without highly advanced technology.
German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A â its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. The company, which focuses on drone delivery, has come a long way since its founding in 2017, having developed, built and flown its Wingcopter 178 heavy-lift cargo delivery drone using its proprietary and patented tilt-rotor propellant mechanism, which combines all the benefits of vertical take-off and landing with the advantages of fixed-wing aircraft for longer-distance horizontal flight.
This new Series A round was led by Silicon Valley VC Xplorer Capital, as well as German growth fund Futury Regio Growth. Wingcopter CEO and founder Tom PlĂŒmmer explained in an interview that the addition of an SV-based investor is particularly important to the startup, since itâs in the process of preparing its entry into the U.S., with plans for an American facility, both for flight testing to satisfy FAA requirements for operational certification, as well as eventually for U.S.-based drone production.
Wingcopter has already been operating commercially in a few different markets globally, including in Vanuatu in partnership with Unicef for vaccine delivery to remote areas, in Tanzania for two-way medical supply delivery and in Ireland where it completed the worldâs first delivery of insulin by drone beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), the industryâs technical term for when a drone flies beyond the visual range of a human operator who has the ability to take control in case of emergencies.
Since the dawn of time, humankind has looked to the skies and sought to conquer them. For thousands of years we tried and failed until, at last, we could soar amongst the birds. We built biplanes that danced upon gusts of wind, strapped sails to our back and leapt off fog-drenched mountaintops, launched warplanes into the wild blue yonder to rain terror from above. The heavens were soon streaked with the vapor trails of jumbo jets; the oligarchy used its deep pockets for casual jaunts to the threshold of outer space. And then, with the skies at last firmly in our dominion, we once again turned our eyes upward and declared, âKnow what would look great up there? Pizza.â
The technology to flood our skies with millions of pizza boxes does not exist just yet, but itâs taken a huge leap forward in Israel, where, The Wall Street Journal reports, Pizza Hut is launching the worldâs first ever full-time drone delivery service. The pilot program is being heavily regulated by the government, and Pizza Hutâs human delivery drivers donât need to worry about being replaced (yet), as the drones will not be making direct-to-customer drop-offs. Instead, the flying robots will bring multiple orders to designated landing zones outside of Pizza Hutâs normal delivery radius, where theyâll be picked up by a driver who will take the pizzas to their final destinations.
The dronesâ home base will be a Pizza Hut located in Bnei Dror in Northern Israel, and will allow the restaurant to provide delivery service to an additional 7000 households. The Ministry of Transportation has limited the dronesâ flight area to about 50 square miles, and each droneâs limited battery life means thereâs little chance of one going rogue.
These cute drones are partially made from the trashed leaves of harvested pineapples which make them lighter, faster and most importantly greener! đ.
