MIT’s New Camera Drone System Uses AI to Frame a Shot
Before drones, the stunning aerial shots in Hollywood movies were accomplished by a small crew in a helicopter. Even with the arrival of drones, crew members were still needed to plan the shots with painstaking precision and operate the drones. But researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have engineered a new […]
FAA Opens First Drone Test Site
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened the first of six planned testing facilities for unmanned aircraft. The first test site is located in North Dakota, and became operational a full two months ahead of the previously announced schedule. Officially, the North Dakota site will be used to allow drones to conduct soil […]