Category Archives: Research

Rooftop Drones for Autonomous Pigeon Harassment

Feral pigeons are responsible for over a billion dollars of economic losses here in the United States every year.  tions all over the country, being gross. In addition to carrying diseases (some of which can occasionally infect humans), pigeons are prolific and inconvenient urban poopers, deploying their acidic droppings in places that are exceptionally difficult to clean. Continue reading

NASA is Helping Fly Drones in the Arctic

In the unforgiving Arctic climate, drones have struggled to fly for extended periods of time — the kind that would allow researchers to fly scientific instruments safely to keep tabs on the region. Now, a team led by NASA scientists is showing how a fixed-winged drone named Vanilla could fly for several days over the Arctic ocean carrying an instrument that uses radar to measure the depth of snow accumulating on top of sea ice. Continue reading