El auge de la tecnología de drones ha revolucionado múltiples sectores, desde la cinematografía hasta la agricultura. Sin embargo, con la creciente popularidad de estos dispositivos, surge la necesidad de entender y respetar el espacio aéreo donde pueden operar. En este artículo, nos adentraremos en el mundo de los mapas de drones, esenciales para volar de forma segura y legal en España.
New drone regulations in the U.S. ostensibly make it easier for companies to put flying robots to work whether that’s in media, construction or agriculture. But drones are still limited to flying within the “line of sight,” or the range where a human operator can see them.
So we can’t have pizzas, or prescriptions, delivered by drones as a going concern, yet. And businesses can’t send drones to do far away inspections of oil rigs or forest fires.
This week, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced new safety regulations for unmanned aircraft weighing less than 55 pounds (25 kilograms) that are conducting non-hobbyist operations. In other words, the pilots and drones shooting your wedding video, trailing a snowboarder to catch the best trick as seen from above, or taking aerial footage of the horse ranch for sale in the next county now have dictates to follow.
A drone ambulance designed to airlift two people has taken autonomously to the air for the first time.
The AirMule, which can take off and land vertically, is designed for conditions where landing a helicopter is unfeasible – such as on a battlefield. The drone, made by Israeli company Tactical Robotics, has seen recent setbacks in development but is designed to carry up to 450kg up to 31 miles.
The single-engined, internal rotor drone took to the air from a temporary testing facility set up at the Megiddo airfield after gaining clearance from the Israeli Civil Aviation Authority for untethered flight.
The company plans to demonstrate the AirMule’s cargo-carrying capability within the year, with beyond-line-of-sight testing also scheduled.
An anti-drone system developed by a trio of UK companies is to receive its first public test by America’s Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), in an effort to protect airports from the risks of hobbyist unmanned aerial vehicles.
The system, called the Anti-UAV Defence System (Auds), looks like a mounted turret but instead of shooting drones out of the sky with bullets, it fires nothing more menacing than radio waves.
It’s the year, or perhaps the decade, of the drone, and the popular craft are only getting cheaper, better and easier to control. But why should drones be limited to the air? The SeaDrone, demonstrated onstage at Disrupt NY today, brings the benefits and simplicity of multi-rotor airborne drones to underwater applications.
“You could consider it an underwater quadcopter,” Eduardo Moreno, co-founder of O-Robotix, told TechCrunch. “It’s not made like a missile, like other underwater drones. It’s designed to stabilize itself. We focused on innovating on how a robot could capture very stable footage.”
Lo último de la conocida fabricante de aviones estadounidense Boeing es... un submarino. Aunque los robots submarinos se usan desde hace años en la exploración submarina y en tareas como la prospección de petróleo, hasta ahora su operatividad viene limitada por la necesidad de salir a la superficie cada pocas horas.
Ahora, Boeing propone un vehículo capaz de salir de puerto y regresar a él sin necesidad de contar con un buque de apoyo, que se desenvuelve sin roblemas en alta mar y capaz de recorrer más de 12.000 km en cada misión. Eso equivale a un repostaje cada seis meses.
Qualcomm said Thursday the Federal Aviation Administration has authorized the big maker of wireless chips and technologies to operate drones outside its San Diego headquarters, which is within five miles of a Marine Corps air base.
Officially known as a certificate of authorization, the permit allows Qualcomm to operate a particular type of unmanned aerial system (UAS) in what the FAA calls “Class B airspace,” which typically surrounds the nation’s busiest airports with an air traffic control tower.
Delivery by drone may be legal within two years. Just don’t expect many pizzas or packages to wing their way through your neighborhood by then. Despite huge interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and considerable hype around the idea of using them to deliver goods, experts say significant challenges still need to be solved for drone delivery to get off the ground.
El auge de la tecnología de drones ha revolucionado múltiples sectores, desde la cinematografía hasta la agricultura. Sin embargo, con la creciente popularidad de estos dispositivos, surge la necesidad de entender y respetar el espacio aéreo donde pueden operar. En este artículo, nos adentraremos en el mundo de los mapas de drones, esenciales para volar de forma segura y legal en España.