AUTONOMY AND MANUFACTURING

McLean Care – an Australian regional senior care provider – is developing a virtual reality (VR) simulator in partnership with Deakin University with the aim of creating a safe, low-risk environment for drivers aged 70 Read More

A recent survey conducted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) states that 80 percent of DOT respondents are using drones in their department’s operations and almost half are using unmanned Read More

Cybersecurity researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) have partnered with Boston-based OnBoard Security – a company that develops products for vehicle communication security – to prevent hacker attacks that could cause Read More

Researchers from the University of Washington and Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are reporting the successful deployment of three undersea drones which will be autonomously monitoring the ebb and flow of sea ice in the Read More

Skyguide – the Swiss air navigation service provider – is partnering with AirMap – an airspace management platforms for drones – on the U-Space initiative. The initiative is Europe’s vision for the digital infrastructure that Read More

Researchers at the University of Liverpool, Future Coders, and CGA Simulation have designed a VR training system for autonomous vehicles. The Artificial Learning Environments for Autonomous Driving (ALEAD) system uses information gathered from the city Read More

Raytheon, under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, is developing technology for soldiers to control unmanned vehicle swarms with voice and gesture commands. The OFFSET program envisions future small-unit Read More

Nvidia recently announced that it has built the Nvidia Drive Constellation – a cloud-based autonomous vehicle testing facility using state-of-the-art photorealistic simulations. The system uses two different servers working in tandem – with one server Read More

The U-Flyte project at Maynooth University’s Department of Computer Science and National Center for Geocomputation in Ireland, which researches practical uses for drone technology, has recently been awarded €1.8m from Science Foundation Ireland in addition Read More