£4.2 m success in EPSRC Grand Challenge : Future Cities

Southampton team wins first IMechE UAS Challenge

SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS WIN GAME OF DRONES

NEWS: 3D-printed plane flies from Royal Navy ship

Eurobot 2015 Victory for Southampton Teams.

South Wiltshire UTC – Opening in Sept 2015

Prior, Stephen D. (2013) Interview about the Amazon drones delivery service. BBC World Service – Newshour 02/12/2013 Item availability restricted.

Article on HALO UAV & DARPA UAVForge – March 2013

DARPA Challenges Over the Last Decade

The Engineer Article – Building a UAV – 6 December 2012

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/

http://www.centaur2.co.uk/emags/theengineer/te-1212/

MDX STUDENTS TO FLY THE FLAG AT INTERNATIONAL ‘DRONE OLYMPICS’

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/news-events/news/uavforge.aspx

MIDDLESEX’S “SPY” DRONE GENERATES WORLDWIDE INTEREST

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/news-events/news/flyingdrone.aspx

BBC Click – Explores defence technology, from vanishing tanks to the SQ-4 airborne spy bot.

BBC NEWS CHANNEL (UK): Saturday 0130, 1130, 1530 and 2030, Sunday 0430, 0745, 1130, 1530 and 2030 and Monday 0030

BBC WORLD NEWS: Friday 1530, Saturday 0630, Sunday 1230 and 1830 GMT

BBC WORLD SERVICE: Click here for listings

DSEI 2011 – SQ-4 Small Unmanned Aerial System – Product Debut

The team at the ASL successfully flew the SQ-4 twice daily during the four days of the the DSEi show at the Excel Centre (13-16 September). Unlike some of the other robotic systems, the SQ-4 proved its reliability by never failing to perform during the Unmanned Systems Showcase.

http://www.unmanned.co.uk/autonomous-unmanned-vehicles/uav-data-specifications-fact-sheets/sq-4-uav/

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/9245614.Flying_camera_could_save_British_soldiers__lives__students_say/

http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/content/12490/Middlesex_University_creates_unique_UAV

Test

ASL signs MoU with BCB International Ltd

The Autonomous Systems Lab has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with BCB International Ltd to work on a joint bid for the MoD’s Nano UAS tender.

Chess playing robots to do battle on a world stage

Students from Imperial College and Middlesex University will represent the UK at the international Eurobot competition: http://profeng.com/web-extra/web-extra-chess-playing-robots-to-do-battle-on-a-world-stage

Ditch the modesty – TheManufacturer.com http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/content/11849/Ditch_the_modesty

National Science and Engineering Week: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/news-events/news/scienceandengineeringevents2011.aspx

MDX News Story, KAF 2011: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/news-events/news/KAF2011.aspx

MDX Play Kinetica Art Fair video: http://www.play.mdx.ac.uk/videos/d98g

AeroVironment’s Nano Hummingbird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WePgcg37I&feature=player_embedded

Ellie Goulding Video made with the help of PDE students featured on ITV London Tonight:

http://www.itv.com/london/ellie-goulding11762/

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/spoonfed-arts-team-8139/kinetica-art-fair-2011-4541/

Granny’s precarious vase
Middlesex University – An Accident Waiting to Happen
An Accident Waiting to Happen sums up the best bits of Kinetica. Funny, interactive and grabbing your attention before anything else does. From a distance it’s just a lone antique vase on a table. Come closer and it springs into life, cleverly recognising your position and darting away to the other end of the table. Cheeky little sod. It’s then you notice the circle of broken crockery around the table and culpability kicks in as the vase threatens to topple over. I’m told this piece is about accidents lurking around every corner and learning from your mistakes. Or maybe you should just steer clear of anything remotely ordinary looking here, because nothing is what it seems.
JJ-B

A preview of the whole Kinetica Art Fair 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H36fKEaC2D4