GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Instructor Matt Dunlevy probably didn’t have to remind his University of North Dakota students that they’d be sharing the airspace as they stood in a field preparing their drones for flight as the sun set one recent afternoon. “Welcome to the drone business, where you will be eaten alive by bugs,” [...]
Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute has teamed up with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the development an adaptable ice protection technology to aid the U.S. military’s expanded use of unmanned drones. The Air Force Research Laboratory announced the cooperative research and development agreement earlier this week. Specifically, Battelle [...]
BOSTON (AP) — As Hermine worked its way up the East Coast, scientists deployed several underwater drones they say will help them better understand what sustains and strengthens hurricanes and tropical storms — and ultimately better protect life and property. The ocean gliders, as they are called, resemble yellow-winged torpedoes. They were released into the [...]
LOS BANOS, Calif. — A drone whirred to life in a cloud of dust, then shot hundreds of feet skyward for a bird’s-eye view of a vast tomato field in California’s Central Valley, the nation’s most productive farming region. Equipped with a state-of-the-art thermal camera, the drone crisscrossed the field, scanning it for cool, soggy [...]