Delivery of medical products, Zipline International Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
Robot deliveries coming to DC
Published on Aug 8, 2016
With the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently releasing new rules regarding commercial drone operations, it seems like it will only be a matter of time before the skies will be buzzing with drone deliveries. One company aims to take drone deliveries to the nation’s capital. Will Washington, DC soon see packages and pizzas delivered by drone? RT correspondent and producer Ryan Kerr investigates.
Google X’s Astro Teller on the future of delivery drones
Published on Nov 8, 2016
Google X’s “Captain of Moonshots” says that Harry Potter-style Owl Post isn’t that far off, with drones enabling immediate delivery of products and goods to people when they need them.
Droneports: the future of delivery
Published on Feb 17, 2017
How could an airport made just for drones help people in Africa? We explore a proposal that aims to improve communication, trade and boost employment across Africa by giving drones a safe place to land.
Vision-based cable-suspended load transport with two quadrotors
Published on Mar 15, 2017
We propose a novel collaborative transport scheme, in which two quadrotors transport a cable-suspended payload at accelerations that exceed the capabilities of previous collaborative approaches, which make quasi-static assumptions. Furthermore, this is achieved completely without explicit communication between the collaborating robots, making our system robust to communication failures and making consensus on a common reference frame unnecessary. Instead, they only rely on visual and inertial cues obtained from on-board sensors.
Reference:
M. Gassner, T. Cieslewski, D. Scaramuzza
Dynamic Collaboration without Communication: Vision-Based Cable-Suspended Load Transport with Two Quadrotors, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
PDF: rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/ICRA17_Gassner.pdf
Our research page on multi-robot systems:
rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/research_multirobot.html
Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, 2017
Package delivery drone of the University of Moratuwa
Published on Apr 6, 2017
This hexacopter drone is fully autonomous. It can carry 1.5kg package easily and fly to a destination, land and drop the package, and fly back to the home all in fully autonomous mode. University of Moratuwa UAV Research Lab and Future Drones (Pvt) Ltd are developing this drone for applications such as package delivery, precision agriculture, and disaster management. The drone will soon be deployed for actual applications.
Article "U.S. Marines Testing Disposable Delivery Drones"
by Evan Ackerman
April 17, 2017
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