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16 Top Concerns About Urban Air Mobility

If Drones Are to Fulfill Their Many Promises, Some Concerns Need to Be Addressed First

Researchers are discovering the top issues people need addressed before they are more comfortable with urban air mobility.

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AAM-Gym for Artificial Intelligence Practice

Advanced Air Mobility gets a research and development testbed

Researchers have created an Advanced Air Mobility “gym” that will allow for thousands of potential simulations to improve the development of eVTOLs.

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UAVs Take Flight to Save the Sharks

You’re Gonna Need a Drone, Not a ‘Bigger Boat’

As drone technology (design, battery life, video image resolution) improves, it will help save the lives of sharks, researchers, and swimmers.

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UAVs Face Headwinds, Tailwinds, and Downdrafts: What’s a Drone to Do?

CalTech Engineers Are Working on the Solution

Researchers are teaching drones how to adapt and stay on course in different wind conditions using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

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Skating on Thin Ice – Better UAS Than You or Me

University of Maryland Researchers and NOAA Take Their eVTOL Out for a Test Flight

Unmanned drone systems equipped with sensors may be able to help move the scientific study of sea ice forward.

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Advancing Advanced Air Mobility

Trust Us. Trust the Computers. Trust Us and the Computers?

The future of urban air mobility depends in part on how well humans and autonomous machines can team together.

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