An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as a drone is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
NEW YORK - If a drone is on your holiday shopping list, be sure to check your insurance coverage before you crack open that instruction manual and take flight. Damage from a drone is a bit more complicated than handing your kid a baseball and dealing with the wreckage an errant pitch might cause to
SAN FRANCISCO - Some 2,500 GoPro Karma drones have been sold since its launch. Now GoPro wants you to cease using it immediately and return the drone directly to GoPro Store or the retailer you purchased it to get a full refund because of some of them run have been running out of power prematurely
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PHILADELPHIA - Roboticists are putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into finding the right combination of sensors and algorithms that will keep their drones from smashing into things. It’s a very difficult problem: With a few exceptions, you’ve got small platforms that move fast and don’t have the payload capability for the kind of
NEW YORK - For GoPro, there was nowhere to go but up–literally. Its first drone, dubbed the Karma, hit the market last week, a strategic moonshot aimed at carrying the struggling company beyond the increasingly saturated market for cubic cameras in a plastic case. Despite its listless efforts to become a media player, GoPro is still
ROYAL OAK - DroneLaw.Pro Attorney Enrico Schaefer said the FAA expects 600,000 licensed drone pilots to take to the skies over the next 12 months. On Aug. 29 the FAA created a remote pilot certificate. Over the past couple of months tens of thousands of people have been taking the knowledge test to get a
BOSTON - It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop – the effect of an impact has similar negative effects on people and on the sensitive electronic parts of robots. A new research project from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help lessen the damaging effects of sudden physical shocks, for both humans
BOSTON - United Parcel Service said Friday it successfully used a drone to deliver medicine to an island near Boston, jumping into a race with competitors such as Amazon.Com to test drone delivery inside the United States. The delivery of an inhaler on Thursday was conducted in partnership with CyPhy Works, a drone maker in
SAN FRANCISCO - GoPro took the lid off the Hero5 Black ($399), the Hero5 Session ($299), and its Karma drone ($799). The cameras arrive on October 2, and the drone follows on October 23. Along with the new hardware, and new software. The new GoPro Karma drone appears to have an original, user-friendly design—which means
WASHINGTON DC - Airspace for the flying public today is perpetually congested yet remarkably safe, thanks in no small part to a well-established air traffic control system that tracks, guides and continuously monitors thousands of flights a day. When it comes to small unmanned aerial systems such as commercial quadcopters, however, no such comprehensive tracking
