November 4, 2015 Video shows drone herding sheep on Irish farm Irish farmer Declan Brennan has found the most unlikely kind of sheepdog – a drone. Brennan operated a Yuneec Q500 drone to herd his flock of sheep at Herondale, his Carlow, Ireland farm. In a YouTube video posted by Brennan’s brother Paul – who runs Skyfly Photography, which provides drone-shot aerial videos – viewers can get a bird’s-eye view of the flock being ushered around the lush farmland by the drone.
November 4, 2015 Drone-shot video captures courting gray whales Just two weeks after Valentine’s Day, a new drone-shot video has captured a romance on the high seas — footage of two courting gray whales. The video, which runs just over 1 minute and 30 seconds-long was shot by a drone piloted by Capt. Frank Brennan who was on “Dana Pride,” a Dana Wharf Whale Watch boat operated by Capt. Todd Mansur.
November 4, 2015 NASA's ape-like RoboSimian set for DARPA robot challenge A NASA team is putting the finishing tweaks on its amazing, and somewhat creepy, climbing robot RoboSimian, a four-limbed automaton built to compete in a U.S. military robotics challenge in 2015.
November 4, 2015 Drone for Christmas? FAA launches holiday-themed safety video for newbie owners With so many people across the U.S. likely to be unwrapping a brand new quadcopter this holiday season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched a safety campaign designed to lessen the chances of a newbie user inadvertently landing one on someone’s head, or worse, bringing down a passenger plane.
November 4, 2015 Report says GoPro to launch its own consumer drones The Wall Street Journal reports that GoPro is developing its own consumer drones that are expected to hit the market late 2015.
November 4, 2015 Quadcopter flown ‘deliberately’ at passenger plane in near-miss incident In another incident involving commercial aircraft and drones, a passenger plane coming in to land at an airport in the U.K. came close to colliding with a quadcopter flown by a still-unidentified operator.
November 4, 2015 Flexible 'tentacle robots' could aid planetary exploration Space robots are about to get a whole lot sleeker and slinkier.
November 4, 2015 Israel deploys robots to clear Hamas tunnels Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system isn’t the only high-tech hardware the country’s military is deploying in its latest fight against the Islamist militant group Hamas in Gaza.
November 4, 2015 Hack-proof drones? This could make it happen Drones are an integral part of modern warfare, which is just one of many reasons why it would be unusually bad if malefactors were able to hack them.
November 4, 2015 Man versus machine: Table tennis champ to take on ping-pong-playing robot Robots may think they can take over the world, but a lousy performance against Ping-Pong pro Timo Boll in Shanghai next month by an industrial robot called Agilus could set their quest back years.
