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  • One step closer to our robot overlords: the VTOL UAV

    One step closer to our robot overlords: the VTOL UAV

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Bad news folks, a defense contractor just revealed that they have successfully tested an unmanned vertical take-off and landing drone. This is getting just a little too close to the hunter-killers seen in the Terminator movies.

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  • Navy UAV sets endurance record of 26 hours 1 minute

    Navy UAV sets endurance record of 26 hours 1 minute

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Twenty-six hours and one minute. That's how long a new, unmanned, experimental Navy aircraft flew through the air during a recent test run. It's called the Ion Tiger. There it is, right there.

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  • Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments

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    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    Android, Android everywhere. Android, Android in my hair. In my Nook and in my car in my netbook and in my... wait, Afghanistan? It seems defense contractor Raytheon, creators of the famous "pain ray", have launched a device called RATS: the Raytheon Android Tactical System. It allows soldiers to mark other soldiers and even UAVs as "buddies," then track their position in real time on a map, even picking up streaming video coming from above -- sort of like Latitude but putting a whole new spin on stalking. No word on how soldiers like their new devices so far, but once a Twitter app is added we're sure they won't shut up about it.

    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Meet the men and women behind the drones

    Meet the men and women behind the drones

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    So everyone knows now that the military uses UAVs for actions in the Middle East. What isn't as commonly known, is that the men and women who pilot the remote controlled aircraft do so from the relative comfort of a top secret facility in the Nevada desert. In some ways, it's the ultimate video game.

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  • UAV Control: There’s an app for that

    UAV Control: There’s an app for that

    Posted on August 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Why shouldn't the iPhone be able to control a unmaned military reconnaissance aircraft? If you think about it, the iPhone is little more (ok, a lot more) than a souped-up Wii controller and we already know those little devices can control robots and such. And so MIT professor and former F/A-18 Hornet pilot, Missy Cummings, set out to replace the suitcase-sized controller currently need to control arial drones. Spoiler: her team succeeded as the video after the jump proves.

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