In what they say is the first step toward restoring the autonomy of paralysis sufferers, University of Minnesota researchers have demonstrated complex maneuvering by a drone controlled only by the user’s thoughts. The work is documented in the latest issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering. “Our study shows that for the first time, humans […]
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have set a new continuous flight record with an electric drone powered by a fuel cell running from liquid hydrogen in cryogenic storage. The Ion Tiger unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew for 48 hours on April 16-18, shattering their previous record of 26 hours set in 2009 […]
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the GPS navigation system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source. The team, from the University of Texas at Austin, says their GPS guidance hack could influence the planned federal mandate to allow thousands of civilian drones into U.S. […]
