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New! Online Training on Drones for Disaster Response

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones May 26, 2020 | 09:13 am

We’ve given this professional training to dozens of international and national disaster management organizations during the past half-decade. We’ve also run this training for both new and highly experienced drone pilots in dozens of countries around the world. The purpose of this training is to make you an effective and responsible team leader when deploying drones in disaster response. This training is also a great fit if you’re simply curious to learn more about the latest on the use of[…]

Bioinspired micro-robot based on white blood cells

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences May 21, 2020 | 13:28 pm

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart invented a tiny micro-robot that resembles a white blood cell traveling through the circulatory system. It has the shape, the size and the moving capabilities of leukocytes, and could perhaps revolutionize the minimally invasive treatment of illnesses.

Researchers build a fast-moving jumping soft robot

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences May 20, 2020 | 21:09 pm

Buckling, the sudden loss of structural stability, is usually the stuff of engineering nightmares. Mechanical buckling means catastrophic failure for every structural system from rockets to soufflés. It's what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, among numerous other disasters.

Comedy club performances provide insights on how robots, humans connect via humor

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences May 19, 2020 | 15:01 pm

Standup comedian Jon the Robot likes to tell his audiences that he does lots of auditions but has a hard time getting bookings.

Reviewing progress in the development of machine learning-enhanced e-skins

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences May 19, 2020 | 13:30 pm

Researchers at University of California, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and Seoul National University have recently carried out a study reviewing recent efforts in the development of machine-learning-enhanced electronic skins. Their review paper, published in Science Robotics, outlines how these e-skins could aid the creation of soft robots with touch-like capabilities, while also delineating challenges that are currently preventing their large-scale deployment.

Definitive Guide to Setup Drone Delivery System

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones May 19, 2020 | 12:53 pm

Commercial drones are now becoming a mainstream technology, with the 2020 pandemic serving as a showcase for how drones can save human lives.Drones have been used for delivery long before Amazon announced its Prime Air service. Founded in 2011, Zipline, a US-based company focused on medical drone deliveries became the pioneer in long-distance drone delivery, with distribution centers in Rwanda and Ghana. With an exponential growth since then, Zipline now delivers 65% of blood samples in Rwanda, particularly because the[…]

Engineers develop low-cost, high-accuracy GPS-like system for flexible medical robots

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences May 18, 2020 | 15:03 pm

Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body. The system performs as well as current state of the art methods, but is much less expensive. Many current methods also require exposure to radiation, while this system does not.

Fighter Hand launch fixed wing

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones May 15, 2020 | 08:00 am

The fighter is a fixed-wing flight platform , which is easy to carry,friendly to operate,stable and durable.The fighter is positioned as a heavy-duty,long-endurance fixed wing,which greatly reduces the difficulty of aerial survey,further liberates productivity and improves the efficiency of aerial surveyThe modular design concept makes the aircraft easy and fast to assemble.The wings,folding arms and tail fins can be easily dismantled, making the aircraft practical and portable and user-friendly.The open flight control cabin is compatible with Pixhawk flight control and[…]

Fighter VTOL 4+1 fixed wing

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones May 13, 2020 | 05:30 am

The fighter is a 10kg fixed-wing flight platform (hand parachute/VTOL), which is easy to carry,friendly to operate,stable and durable.The fighter is positioned as a heavy-duty,long-endurance fixed wing,which greatly reduces the difficulty of aerial survey,further liberates productivity and improves the efficiency of aerial surveyThe modular design concept makes the aircraft easy and fast to assemble.The wings,folding arms and tail fins can be easily dismantled, making the aircraft practical and portable and user-friendly.The open flight control cabin is compatible with Pixhawk flight[…]

How to create a beautiful drone show presentation using nothing but a simple animation and Drone Show Software

Everyone's Blog Posts - DIY Drones May 1, 2020 | 19:00 pm

Within the bustling world of drones there are always open opportunities to be followed and a drone show service is certainly one of them. Even if you don’t have the funding or the technical knowledge of setting up your own fleet of drones, there are other convenient ways to score that investment pitch without even having touched a drone. Let’s start with the basics of your show – it’s the vision of what you want to present your audience. Get yourself[…]