Aerospace
Spanish Project To Introduce Drones at Airbus Plant

– June 18, 2017, 4:48 AM

A drone like this one from Ascending Technologies, now owned by Intel, was used at an indoor obstacle course to develop trajectory planning and collision-avoidance algorithms.

Researchers with Spain’s Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC), the University of Seville and Airbus will test the use of a small multi-rotor drone to perform tasks in an aerospace manufacturing plant under the European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC). The university-led Group on Robotics, Vision and Control (GRVC) and CATEC represent one of two teams selected to advance to the third stage of the challenge, which calls for starting a pilot program in an actual factory.

The GRVC-CATEC team will implement a drone-based tool delivery and locating system at Airbus Defence and Space’s Centro Bahía de Cádiz site in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain, early next year, said Antidio Viguria, head of CATEC’s avionics and un..

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Pizza-delivering drones, driverless and flying cars, insect protein and free super-speedy WiFi is the future that businesses should be preparing themselves for.

This is what delegates at the Daily Dispatch Strategic Business Summit heard at the Venue @Hemingways on Thursday.

Nine keynote speakers from fields as diverse as renewable energy, labour law, trend forecasting, business advise, politics, academics and economics presented hard-hitting takes on the direction companies should take in a rapidly changing and deeply challenging economic and political South African climate.

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FUTURE PROOF: At this week's dynamic Daily Dispatch Strategic Business Summit, trend and business analyst John Sanei, right, said businesses should prepare themselves for a rapidly changing technological landscape that will include driverless cars, fast and free WiFi and pizza delivery via drone Picture: iSTOCK

FUTURE PROOF: At this week's dynamic Daily Dispatch Strategic Business Summit, ..

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File: The world's first pizza drone delivery was claimed by the New Zealand division of fast food giant Domino's, as it looks to grab a slice of a potentially hot future market.

Photo: AFP / Domino's Pizza

BRUSSELS, Belgium – The EU unveiled a blueprint to safely regulate drone traffic in Europe by 2019 in order to tap the growing commercial potential for unmanned aircraft technology.

The blueprint from the European Commission, the EU executive, covers allowing drones to operate in high density under the supervision of fleet operators.

“Drones mean innovation, new services for citizens, new business models and a huge potential for economic growth,” EU Transport Minister Violeta Bulc said.

“We need the EU to be in the driving seat and have a safe drone services market up and running by 2019,” she said in a statement.

“The EU needs to take a leading role worldwide in developing the right framework for this market to flourish, by unleashing the benefits fo..

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