by Emily Winter | Aug 30, 2018 | Curriculum, Research, UAV
The National Science Foundation-funded program GeoTEd-UAS, managed by the Virginia Space Consortium and partners, is training educators to teach community college students important skills for the growing unmanned aircraft systems market from laws and regulations to...
by Emily Winter | Apr 2, 2018 | Industry, Legislation, Policy, Research, UAV
FERRUM — When asked about the future of Virginia’s economy, there is one industry at the top of Sen. Mark Warner’s mind. “If I was starting all over again, the area that I would go into is unmanned systems,” he said. Warner, who was an early investor in cellular...
by Emily Winter | Jan 8, 2018 | Curriculum, Research, Teleoperated Robots, UVA
Nicola Bezzo is using robots to map the past. Bezzo, a University of Virginia assistant professor in the departments of Systems and Information Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and two of his graduate students, Esen Yel and Tony Lin, have had a...
by Emily Winter | Dec 4, 2017 | Autonomous Vehicles, Curriculum, General Robotics, Research, Robotics Competitions
The challenges of coaxing a small, quirky robot along a ping-pong-table-sized course were readily apparent at Saturday’s Worker Bots contest. Held at Virginia Western Community College, Worker Bots was the 11th annual autonomous robot competition put on by the School...
by Emily Winter | Nov 29, 2017 | Ethics, Policy, Research, UAV
For several days Delphine Twese Hamwe’s 2-year old daughter, Ghislane Ihimbazwe, had been screeching in pain as fever wracked her tiny body. A nurse at the local clinic in central Rwanda told her that an acute form of malaria was attacking her daughter’s red blood...
by Emily Winter | Oct 2, 2017 | Industry, Policy, Research, UAV
Drones may be able to detect incipient leaks in underground natural gas pipelines, and even prevent them, once technical and regulatory hurdles have been resolved. Officials cited corrosion as a factor in a natural gas pipeline explosion that rocked Salem last year....
