Hobby circles and research institutions in India have been working (or playing) with drones for a while now. In this context, drones do not just refer to camera based quadcopters, hexacopters or octacopters that we have been hearing about in the news for the past couple of years. Drones refer to fixed-wing or rotor-wing unmanned vehicles that […]
Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) or Drone technology is relatively new to the common man and it was unheard of until 2012. Before that, it was mostly in the hobby circles and R&D labs of universities or military establishments. Please bear in mind that this blogpost (as well as Thanos Technologies) focuses mostly on sUAS […]
The word ‘Drone’ has been used until now mostly in the military context where it refers to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is capable of conducting high-altitude surveillance or even carry out air-strikes. It also has the common language meaning of a ‘male bee’ or a ‘continuous harmonic sound’ and other such references. Since […]