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Delivery drones and flying cars. China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
Airborne packages and people will soon be whizzing through China cities. The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to domi... (2025)
Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)
Pivotal: Flying cars. No license necessary
A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale. No pilot’s licence will be necessary to fly the Helix | Science & technology (2023)
How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use
Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)
Robotics - Robots that can walk are now striding to market
They will be able to go where people can, but existing bots cannot (2020)
How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets
Pachama is building a verified marketplace for forest carbon offsets. (2019)
How aircraft avoid mid-air collisions - The Economist explains
IT COULD have been one of the worst aviation disasters in history. Last August only a last-minute intervention stopped an Air Canada aeroplane from... (2018)
Are Drones Becoming Essential to Construction? ENGINEERING
Engineering speaks to experts from a variety of companies to learn how drones are being integrated into the construction industry. (2018)
Slaughterbots: Military robots are getting smaller and more capable - The Economist
Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)
A swarm of submarine drones will scour the depths for MH370 | The Economist
A fantastical ship has set out to seek Malaysian Airlines flight 370 - The search for MH370 (2018)
Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed ... (2017)
Drones v sharks
The Economist explains: "Australia’s selachian battlefield goes digital. AUSTRALIA’S waters are some of the most dangerous in the world. Ignoring... (2017)
Portugal's Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine | TechCrunch
Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, specifically the U.S.. The ... (2024)
Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones
Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)
Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say
A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)
UM PhD student hopes his silent drone will be an urban cargo delivery game changer
“Innovative, bold, and, what’s most exciting, silent.” This is how Tomas Pribanic, CEO and Founder of Undefined Technologies, describes his first-o... (2021)
‘Flying taxi’ startup Volocopter picks up another $241M, says service is now two years out – TechCrunch
In a year where mass transit on airplanes, trains and buses has had lower traveler numbers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the startup... (2021)
US drone firm Skydio valued at $1 billion as government freezes out Chinese competition - The Verge
California-based Skydio has become the first US drone maker to be valued at more than $1 billion after a Series D funding round. The news comes as ... (2021)
Electric jet aims for Lake Nona as the nation’s 1st ‘vertiport’ for flying taxi service
The German firm Lilium aims to make Orlando's Lake Nona community the first in the U.S. with a vertiport for sky-taxi service using vertical takeof... (2020)
The Ring Always Home Cam Flies Around Inside Your House
Look at this freaking drone. (2020)
Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet
The FAA approval will give Amazon broad privileges to "safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers." (2020)
IT'S TIME TO BUILD - by Marc Andreessen
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effect... (2020)
‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’ - Longreads
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you. (2019)
Water-dropping helicopters grounded due to illegal drones - Los Angeles Times (2019)
A firefighting helicopter had to be grounded several times overnight to avoid a drone whose pilot was apparently trying to snap photos of the flames. (2019)
Hyundai is getting into the flying car business – TechCrunch (2019)
Hyundai Motor Group has launched a new air mobility division aimed at developing technology for the commercialization of flying cars, the latest co... (2019)
Wing will test drone delivery in the US with Walgreens and FedEx
Wing, the drone delivery company that started its life within the Google X lab before spinning out into its own thing under the Alphabet umbrella, ... (2019)
AI pioneer: ‘The dangers of abuse are very real’ - Nature
Yoshua Bengio, winner of the prestigious Turing award for his work on deep learning, is establishing international guidelines for the ethical use o... (2019)
Drop the Batteries—Diamonds and Lasers Could Power Your Drone | WIRED
Rather than have drones waste energy carrying their own power, LakeDiamond wants to charge them by firing lasers through diamonds at their solar ce... (2018)
Goodbye Phones, Hello Drones – Tom Moss – Medium
I’ve loved gadgets all my life. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, it felt like ALL the best consumer hardware was coming from Japan. So when I got the... (2018)
Will Drones and Planes be Treated as Equals by FAA? | Hackaday
Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different. The Fede... (2018)
Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ
Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)
Amazing Invention - This Drone Will Change Everything - Zipline Drones
These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)
Flying cars: (podcast) “Free as a bird”, an episode from The Economist on Spotify
Travellers have long dreamed of soaring above traffic jams. Those dreams may come true, in the form of passenger-carrying drones. We look at the co... (2018)