Selfly is a cute picture-taking robot from AEE.
Continue reading… “Meet the selfie drone that lives in your phone case”
Selfly is a cute picture-taking robot from AEE.
Continue reading… “Meet the selfie drone that lives in your phone case”
JD.com is planning to build 185 drone airports in Southwest China.
The airports will help products reach villagers, while also delivering rural products across China.
This is the latest move by tech companies, including Alibaba, to capitalize on the growing rural market.
Harvard’s robot bees have really evolved over the years. The RoboBee project was first unveiled in 2013, when the bots were only capable of takeoff and flying. Since then, they’ve been modified to stick to surfaces and swim underwater, and now their creators say they’re able to dive in and out of water — a big achievement for a tiny robot bee.
Continue reading… “Robot bees can now dive in and out of water using tiny combustible rockets”
While Amazon’s vision of cops going around with shoulder-based “assistant drones” may be something for the distant future, their French counterparts are wasting little time in utilizing the remotely controlled flying machines in their daily duties.
Continue reading… “Drones are helping French traffic cops to catch hundreds of dangerous drivers”
Drones that put selfie sticks to shame, pollution zapping air filters, 3D printable airless tires and a malware detecting router for your smart home.
Continue reading… “Top 25 inventions of 2017: Selfie drones, 3d printed tires and more”
The Future of Life Institute channels ‘Black Mirror’ in its short film warning about the danger of autonomous killer robots.
Continue reading… “Watch ‘Slaughterbots,’ a warning about the future of killer bots”
BZZZZZZZ: Concerns from the public, including some accidents where people got hit, are behind the tighter drone rules, the aviation safety authority said
Continue reading… “Drones banned on beaches, must not be flown over people”
Orbital Insight is a company that finds “truth and transparency” in the world’s rhythms.
Continue reading… “How satellites, drones, and planes are making hedge funds money”
Managing wild animals in remote areas requires accurate estimates of their numbers. Machine-vision drones can help.
Continue reading… “Machine-vision drones monitor animals in the African savanna”
KPJ Reddy, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, will soon be growing forests with the help of seed-bombing drones. Alarmed by how fast natural habitats and wildlife are disappearing, the nature lover was inspired to make a difference.
Continue reading… “Scientists from Bengaluru will now grow forests using drones”
In its research into the best way to provide the internet to the entire world, Facebook has mapped where all 7.5 billion people on the planet live. By combining government census data and satellite images along with some help from Facebook’s image recognition neural network, the company can now locate every single man-made structure to within just five meters.
Continue reading… “Facebook has mapped the population of 23 countries in incredible detail”
It’s simple maths. We are chopping down about 15 billion trees a year and planting about 9 billion. So there’s a net loss of 6 billion trees a year.
Continue reading… “These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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