The world's first waterproof drone capable of submerging under water, floating like a boat and flying through the air at over 40mph (60kmh) has been unveiled by US engineers. The $765 (£585) gadget, known as Spry, features a built-in 4K camera that can both record video and snap photos on the fly. Footage is beamed back to a monitor embedded into a waterproof remote control, which the drone's developers claim is another world first for the drone industry. The world's first waterproof drone capable of submerging under water, floating like a boat and flying through the air at over 40mph (60kph) has been unveiled by US engineers SwellProUSA and Florida-based Urban Drones say it has taken two years of designing and prototyping to cross the line'between science fiction and reality by allowing users to fly and swim, something never before possible'. 'The Spry's ability to submerge under water and fly in the air makes it the most versatile drone ever created,' said Alex Rodriguez, Urban Drones' CEO.

Starting with its acquisition of Kiva Systems for $775 million back in 2012, Amazon has been steadily investing in a robotic future. From delivery drones to a rumored home robot to a robotics picking challenge, Amazon definitely wants useful, practical robots to happen. We're not always sure that they're going about it the right way, but we are always in favor of companies with as much clout as Amazon has recognizing that robotics is worth focusing on, especially with an understanding that some problems are going to take years of work to solve. Brad Porter is the vice president of robotics at Amazon. He joined the company over a decade ago, initially working on Amazon's web operations and e-commerce architecture.

If you're new to drones, here are 10 rules you need to know before flying USA TODAY So when the new DJI Mavic 2 Pro takes off from the edge of the Pier, without bothering any of the local fishing enthusiasts, soars off without a hitch and returns safely, without hitting anything you're a happy camper. And that was before we get a chance to examine the footage, which turns out is way more impressive than what we saw with the previous edition of the Mavic Pro. Newsflash: This is a drone with a camera-size sensor and lens on it, that flies on command. The Mavic 2 is the update to the original Mavic Pro drone, which broke ground in 2016 as the first somewhat affordable, quality drone that was also compact enough to fit into a backpack. More: Does'yes' mean'yes?' Can you give consent to have sex to an app?

A mixed group of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles is considered as a distributed system. A lattice of tasks which may be fulfilled by the system matches to it. An external multiplication operation is defined at the lattice, which defines correspondingly linear logic operations. Linear implication and tensor product are used to choose a system reconfiguration variant, i.e., to determine a new task executor choice. The task lattice structure (i.e., the system purpose) and the operation definitions largely define the choice. Thus, the choice is mainly the system purpose consequence. The suggested method is illustrated using an example of a mixed group control at forest fire compression. Keywords Multi-Agent Systems · Decision making · Mixed Group · Goal Lattice · Linear logic 1 Introduction At present, aviation surveillance systems in the emergency zone have received wide distribution [1]. Lately, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are actively used in these surveillance systems.

Autonomous drones represent a new breed of mobile computing system. Compared to smartphones and connected cars that only opportunistically sense or communicate, drones allow motion control to become part of the application logic. The efficiency of their movements is largely dictated by the low-level control enabling their autonomous operation based on high-level inputs. Existing implementations of such low-level control operate in a time-triggered fashion. In contrast, we conceive a notion of reactive control that allows drones to execute the low-level control logic only upon recognizing the need to, based on the influence of the environment onto the drone operation.

In the late 1990s, at about the time as an upsurge of interest among theorists in real-time control in which feedback loops were closed through rate-limited communication channels, the Bluetooth communication standard was introduced to enable "local area networks of things." Various research groups, including my own, became interested in implementing feedback control using Bluetooth channels in order to evaluate the design principles that we and others had developed for communication-limited real-time systems. With device networks taking on ever increasing importance, our Bluetooth work was part of an emergent area within control theory that was aimed at systems using existing infrastructure rather than systems of sensors, actuators, and data links that were co-optimized to work together to meet performance objectives. The main challenge of using infrastructure that was designed for purposes other than real-time applications was that none of the infrastructure-optimized computation and communication protocols are well suited to closing feedback loops of control systems. The work of Mottola and Whitehouse is somewhat along these lines--with the infrastructure in this case being the control logic and feedback control algorithms that are found on popular UAV autopilot platforms such as Ardupilot, Pixhawk, the Qualcomm Snapdragon, and the now discontinued OpenPilot.

An Icelandic startup called Aha is using a Chinese-made drone and an Israeli logistics system to deliver hot food, groceries, and electronics to households in Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik. These drones don't sense and avoid obstacles--in fact, they don't even have cameras, radar, or any other imaging systems. They fly according to GPS coordinates, along routes certified free of trees, buildings, and other impediments. And with some 500 deliveries completed in the past five months, no injuries have been reported. It works like this: You punch your order into an app on your smartphone ("Two hamburgers, hold the onions") and Aha's cook loads the food onto the drone. Then you track the delivery, go outside to welcome it, and if all's well at the drop-off point, you agree to accept it.

At the industry's main professional drone event, InterDrone (Las Vegas, USA, Sept. 5-7, 2018), Parrot, the leading European drone group, presented two new professional drone platforms: senseFly eBee X and Parrot ANAFI Work. Designed by teams of engineers in Paris and Switzerland, brought together within Parrot Business Solutions, the two new professional drone platforms have further strengthened the Group's range of solutions for the business market. Both complementary and differentiating, the eBee X and ANAFI Work provide precision data to work more efficiently, reduce professional risks and costs, and make decisions based on detailed precision information. Far more than just a drone, eBee X is a solution designed to optimize operator efficiency and minimize risk when collecting data. Its High-Precision on Demand (RTK/PPK) feature delivers absolute accuracy of down to 3 cm (1.2 in), without ground control points.

FILE - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view in Washington, in this March 27, 2008 file photo. The Pentagon is making a massive push to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence to ships, tanks, aircraft, drones, weapons and large networks as part of a sweeping strategy to more quickly harness and integrate the latest innovations. Many forms of AI are already well-underway with US military combat systems, yet new technologies and applications are emerging so quickly that Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has directed the immediate creation of a new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. "The Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the DoD Chief Information Officer to standup the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in order to enable teams across DoD to swiftly deliver new AI-enabled capabilities and effectively experiment with new operating concepts in support of DoD's military missions and business functions." DoD spokeswoman Heather Babb told Warrior Maven.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson headed to Greenland in June, he traveled with a heavy, oversized rolling bag containing a crucial piece of equipment to document climate change. Jackson, one of a handful of Reuters photographers licensed to operate a drone, spent seven rainy days camped alongside Greenland's Helheim glacier, near the small seaside village of Tasiilaq. Using an Inspire 1 Pro drone, Jackson captured more than 700 gigabytes of footage and images in Greenland (here). Drones are an emerging tool for newsgathering, but they potentially pose several legal and ethical challenges, including the violation of privacy. Until now, Reuters has used drones only on rare occasions. But Greenland provided a perfect opportunity since a drone is inexpensive to operate.