Although great advancements have been made in ground and air transportation, the majority of the world’s goods are still shipped at sea on huge freighters. The reasons are simple – shipping at sea is less expensive and more efficient than shipping via cargo airplane. However, there are certain areas where being in the air has big advantages and many in the ocean shipping world are look...

Andy Shen is a drone designer with a cool idea. Andy has mounted Nerf brand disks in a spinning compartment on the front of his 250 FPV racing drone. The idea is to challenge his friends to what could be the first drone FPV dogfight in the air. The action takes place in a cold, dusty warehouse with industrial equipment all around. This leads to a challenging flying environment and many interesting...

What happens when you own a Lamborghini Gallardo and a DJI Phantom 3? You get them to race, of course! Check out this article and video about one man who decided to see which was faster on an improvised race course in the mountains of Utah. Disclamer: We don’t recommend using pubilc roads as race courses, but that said, the video of the two racing is still pretty cool to watch! http://www.au...

The Autonomous Systems Laboratory at Stanford University is using a drone to demonstrate “real-time kinodynamic planning” in which a drone faces off with a fencer and uses intelligent algorythms to avoid the fencer’s foil. The drone has been taught to steer and change speed in order to avoid the fencer as he thrusts toward the drone. The quadcopter has learned to compute the opti...