Here at the University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering, a group of graduate students led by Dr. Kam K. Leang have been working in a research team dubbed the DARC (Design, Automation, Robotics & Control) Laboratory. There, the team works on design for remotely controlled aircraft and development of intelligent autonomous systems intended to improve navigation […]
New Quadcopters Arrive Just as US Eases Its Ban on Camera Drones Published October 1, 2014 In an interesting development for the film world, a Toronto startup just began a campaign to send small, lightweight cameras attached to drones into the air. DreamQii, the company behind their cameradrone christened the PlexiDrone, launched an Indiegogo campaign […]
Surveillance Drones on the Homefront The somber warning of Orwell’s dystopian 1984 may have seemed to pass with the fall of the Soviet Union, but many Americans have begun to fear that their free, democratic country isn’t as free and safe as it used to be. The birthplace of the unmanned aerial vehicle, or more […]