Alphabet's drone service Wing this morning announced another milestone, as it hit 200,000 commercial deliveries. The number, which the firm says excludes test flights, comes half-a-year after it hit 100,000. Australia, which has been the primary market for testing and commercial deployment, comprises 30,000 of those deliveries in the first two months of this year. Broken down further, Wing says it was up to more than 1,000 deliveries in a day, or one delivery every 25 seconds or so. The big round number arrives as it announces a commercial partnership with Coles, one of Australia's leading supermarket chains.

On behalf of the Metropolis of Reno and the Reno Hearth Division (RFD), Iris Automation has been granted approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly a small drone autonomously past the pilot's visible line of sight (BVLOS), with out the help of any observers or further ground-based detection gear. Testing will start over unpopulated areas earlier than shifting to city areas. The BVLOS waiver covers a rural, unpopulated space south of Reno and was submitted by Iris Automation for using its Casia X detect and keep away from resolution. "That is an thrilling venture, working with the BEYOND program and the most recent applied sciences to open the skies each for our group and the broader public," mentioned Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve. "It's a novel teaming of private and non-private pursuits to attain breakthrough operations for a variety of cost-effective, public-facing companies. Autonomous flying will profit each member of our group and drive long run financial advantages together with job creation, value financial savings and extra environment friendly companies. We intend this to be our first of many waivers as a part of this collaboration. We're proud to be main the way in which on this unbelievable area--and with a neighborhood BEYOND participant too--and excited to see our companions shifting to this subsequent step within the course of."

Some of these meteorites fall in regions on Earth where fireball observatory networks are active, making it possible to record the trajectory of the fireball as it ablates material from the originating meteoroid. For some fireballs, this data can then be used to simulate both forward and backward in time to predict where the resulting meteorite landed on Earth and where the meteoroid originated in the solar system. Thus, recovering and analyzing these'orbital meteorites' with constrained, prior orbits provides an incredibly unique insight into the geology of the asteroid belt and the nature of mass transfer between the belt and the inner solar system. The Desert Fireball Network (DFN) (Bland et al. 2012; Howie et al. 2017) is one of many organizations (Oberst et al. 1998; Spurný et al. 2006; Trigo-Rodríguez et al. 2006; Olech et al. 2006; Colas et al. 2015; Devillepoix et al. 2020) that makes this possible.

In a video that went viral on Twitter Sunday night, a massive explosion rips through what appears to be a Russian convoy, scoring a direct hit on a surface-to-air missile system. The black-and-white footage, posted to the account of the Ukrainian armed forces, is one of several that have emerged on social media in recent days showing the devastating impact of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian hardware. As the drone's payload explodes in the video--which appears to be a cellphone recording of a screen in a Ukrainian drone facility--people at the facility can be heard gasping in awe before breaking out in cheers and applause. The video racked up more than 3 million views on Twitter in two days. There will be no peace for you on our earth!" the Ukrainian armed forces wrote in the video's caption. The star of this video and others circulating on Twitter is the Bayraktar TB2 – a type of Turkish drone that the Ukrainian military has increasingly deployed against Russian forces in recent ...

This is a new series looking at the detailed design of various robots. To start with we will be looking at the design of two different robots that were used for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Both of these robots were designed for operating in complex subterranean environments, including Caves, Mines & Urban environments. Both of these robots presented are from the Carnegie Mellon University Explorer team. While I am writing these posts, this was a team effort that required many people to be successful.

Ukrainian military official releases video showing what appears to be Russian missile system being destroyed by a drone. A Ukrainian official released footage on Sunday, appearing to show a drone taking out a Russian missile system. The Russian invasion of Ukraine continued for a fifth day on Monday, Feb. 28. Ukrainian forces have offered stiff resistance as Russia launched attacks from Crimea in the south, an attack on the second-largest city of Kharkiv, and an attack on the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. The United States and its allies have responded with stiff sanctions, including cutting off some Russian banks from the international payment system Swift.

The United States has issued fresh sanctions on alleged members of an illicit network financing Yemen's Houthi rebels, citing the group's involvement in the continuing war in Yemen and recent drone and missile attacks on Washington's Gulf allies. In a statement on Wednesday, the US Department of the Treasury said the network "has transferred tens of millions of dollars to Yemen via a complex international network of intermediaries in support of the Houthis' attacks". The new sanctions target alleged front companies and ships that the US says worked with a branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to smuggle petroleum and other commodities around the Middle East, Asia and Africa to help fund the Houthis. "Despite pleas to negotiate an end to this devastating conflict, Houthi leaders continue to launch missile and unmanned aerial vehicle attacks against Yemen's neighbors, killing innocent civilians, while millions of Yemeni civilians remain displaced and hungry," Treasury Under-secretary Brian E Nelson said in the statement. The Houthi rebels have ramped up their missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia and started directly targeting the UAE in recent weeks, but the penalties appeared to fall short of the tougher measures that the Saudis and Emiratis, key strategic partners of the US, had sought from the Biden administration.

Large, black drones with the orange logo of EDGE, the UAE's arms consortium, were on display at this week's Unmanned Systems Exhibition (UMEX), along with remote-controlled machineguns and other "smart" weapons. The exhibition comes at a time of growing unmanned attacks around the region, including the January 17 drone-and-missile assault by Yemen rebels that killed three oil workers in Abu Dhabi, the first in a series of similar incidents. "Autonomous systems are becoming ever more prevalent around the world," Miles Chambers, EDGE's director of international business development, told AFP. "We are really heavily investing in developing our autonomous capability... as well as in electronic warfare and in our smart munitions. These are our three pillars." EDGE, an Abu Dhabi-based defence consortium that groups 25 Emirati firms, was formed three years ago but reached an estimated $4.8 billion in arms sales in 2020 -- nearly all of them to the UAE government.

According to the institute, its forecasting solution will help farmers deal with crop diseases in a timely manner and curb overuse of pesticides, which is rampant due to the lack of accurate information about the extent of crop infection. IIIT Naya Raipur's forecasting solution uses drones to monitor crops and capture live images if it detects any issues in them. The images are then sent from the drone in real time to the institute's servers, where an image classification model based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is used to identify the disease and insects that are affecting it. CNNs are AI algorithms commonly used for image and video recognition. They can process an image, assign importance to its various attributes, and differentiate one image from another.

Abu Dhabi – The United Arab Emirates and its allies warned Sunday of the rising threat of drone attacks, as Middle East militants rapidly acquire a taste for the cheap and easily accessible unmanned systems. But while the countries called for a collective effort to protect airspaces against the small and often hard to detect targets, one question remains: how can you reliably stop a drone attack? "We have to unite to prevent the use of drones from threatening civilian safety and destroying economic institutions," Mohammed bin Ahmed al-Bowardi, United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Minister of State for Defense Affairs, said at a defense conference in Abu Dhabi. The Unmanned Systems Exhibition (UMEX), running until Wednesday, began in the UAE capital with regional and Western military and industry representatives, including from the United States, Britain and France. Speakers addressed the importance of developing such systems for civil and military uses but also acknowledged their dangers when used by groups deemed a threat to the region.