Sentences with phrase «drone aerial vehicle»

It's based on two conversations — one recorded, one not — Fast had with a Las Vegas - based Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator who was understandably more careful about what he said on camera than off.

5000 Feet Is the Best, a thirty - minute video, takes its name from an excerpt of an interview between Fast and a Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator now working in Las Vegas as a casino security guard.

Omer Fast's 5000 Feet is the Best (2011), is a film based on interviews with an American Predator drone aerial vehicle operator, who describes incidents where militants and civilians are fired at in Pakistan and Afghanistan — resulting in deep psychological scarring.

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Drones — or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in the industry's preferred parlance — are inspecting smoke stacks and monitoring seal populations, and will soon explore the insides of active volcanoes.

Drone hobbyists will soon have to register their unmanned aerial vehicles thanks to new rules from the FAA.

According to Gabriel's father, Fernando, his son became interested in UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, a few months ago after seeing YouTube postings of personal drone footage — everything from drones flying through fireworks displays and capturing aerial views of killer whales in British Columbia's Johnson Strait to police activity on the streets of California and kids surfing monster waves in Newport Beach.

Taking the plight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or «drones» as an example, Bunger sees police forces 15 years behind the military with ground - based military just starting to adopt robots.

A seemingly absurd plan to rain Internet down on the earth with drones and lasers took a big step toward reality this week, when Facebook unveiled its first unmanned aerial vehicle.

Unmanned aerial vehicles have become a fixture on the battlefield in Syria, as both the US, Syria, Iran, and Russia all have operated weaponized and unarmed surveillance drones there.

The increase in drone incidents makes sense given the increasing popularity of the unmanned aerial vehicles.

In what's being characterized as the closest encounter yet between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a civilian aircraft, an Air France plane last month came within 16 feet of colliding with a drone.

And she's big, she's evolvable, and absolutely we're looking very closely at unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and drone technology.

The company is expanding its role in the logistics industry with drone technology that could ultimately see the unmanned aerial vehicles deliver products to customer homes.

No tool of war has come further in the last 25 years than drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

On Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chinese drone manufacturer EHang unveiled the EHang 184, the first fully electric autonomous aerial vehicle capable of carrying one passenger up to 220 pounds over short distances.

«The $ 5 fee to cover administrative costs may prevent users from registering for both convenience and cost, especially in the case of small toy - like UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicle],» said a statement from the Small UAV Coalition, a drone advocacy group that includes Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), and drone manufacture DJI.

They're buzzing overhead in yards all over Silicon Valley, but the most impactful applications of unmanned aerial vehicles — a.k.a. drones — are for business.

EHANG, an intelligent aerial vehicles technology and service company, is the manufacturer of the «Ghostdrone» series of consumer drones as well as EHANG184, the «world's first safe, smart, and eco-friendly autonomous aerial vehicle.»

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture.

The companies are pushing lawmakers to allow for experimental testing of drone delivery in sparsely populated areas and more research and development of delivery plans, according to Michael E. Drobac, a leader of Akin Gump's unmanned aerial vehicle lobbying practice, which represents Amazon.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

Western Research Team Builds Drought - Fighting Drone To Seed Rainclouds: California communities suffering from extreme drought could soon get help from an unlikely source, unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones...

To ensure the safety and enjoyment of all our guests, the Hershey Lodge / strictly prohibits the operation of or use of any unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as «Drones,» on, from, or above the Hershey Lodge premises without specific written permission from an official of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts.

Refrain from launching, operating, or retrieving drones or other remote - controlled aerial vehicles

Initially, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) was an exclusively military affair; only in recent times have civilian drone developers started to appear on the scene.

The Initiative, backed by groups from ten countries and several international NGOs aims at pre-emptively banning autonomous robots, most importantly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or «drones»).

In fact you can argue that this administration's done more against the Pakistani Taliban with the Drones and UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicle) that the president a year ago authorized to be used.

• Earlier this summer, the Legislature passed a ban on using camera - mounted drones in county parks, saying the unmanned aerial vehicles posed a threat to residents» privacy.

Flying drones equipped with video cameras are a popular gift this year, but the Tompkins County Legislature is considering new rules that would limit uses for the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.

Professor Har said, «Nsphere drone can be used for various fields, including airway transportation, military aerial vehicles, surveillance, general safety management, and logistics delivery services.

Through this operational process, the Nsphere drone can make agile movements in ways that might not be attained by other aerial vehicles.

Nsphere drone can fly like a copter type aerial vehicle in the vertical flight mode, and like a fixed - wing type aerial vehicle in the horizontal flight mode.

As debate over the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the U.S. rages on, a fashion designer introduces clothing that blocks drone - mounted infrared cameras

But for this study the scientists employed relatively modest drones — or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-- to survey the darkened ice belt in unprecedented detail.

One of the biggest advances in recent years is the Coyote drone, a 7 - pound unmanned aerial vehicle packed with sensors and a GPS device.

This growing season, crop researchers at the University of Illinois are experimenting with the use of drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — on the university's South Farms.

The least popular option for increased security was the use of unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles, or drones (23 percent).

Flying robots (aka unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones) to check power lines or deliver emergency aid have become an important and controversial part of military capacity in recent years.

Commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles in U.S. airspace was banned by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2007, although growing numbers of hobbyists have been toying with the use of drones, particularly for aerial photography.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research.

Set during 2010 (which, recipe as the film tells us, dosage was the «greatest escalation of targeted killings» via drones), the movie recounts one soldier's growing discontent with piloting unmanned aerial vehicles.

The project team felt driven to come up with new solutions to aid the process, utilising their knowledge of drone (an unmanned aerial vehicle) technology and artificial intelligence (AI), after experiencing first - hand the difficulties of searching for and rescuing persons in trouble at sea during their College service and lifeguarding training programme.

Maybe these Jeeps awaken memories of a freer, less anxious age, when kids rode bicycles without helmets, grownups smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey, and «unmanned aerial vehicles» were model airplanes, not drones.

New work by Winnipeg artists Erika Lincoln and Reva Stone looks at unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones.

In theory, aerial vehicles such as drones could be used to deliver and then inject solid aerosol particles, such as desert dust or pollen, into cirrus clouds.

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finding a role in the study of glaciers in the rugged and remote Himalayas.

In those days, the main uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-- aka drones — were military, either for reconnaissance or for attack.

Drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — are first of all flying machines.

Because of the rapid spread of drone technology, Transport Canada and the FAA in the United States have been scrambling to amend aviation regulations to ensure that they encompass the influx of unmanned aerial vehicles to our skies.

The drone - regulating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicts that by 2020, as many as seven million of these unmanned aerial vehicles, as they're formally called, will be hovering around.