标题: Amazon and Civilian Uses of Drones [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-8-2013 13:09 标题: Amazon and Civilian Uses of Drones Mary Cummings, Drones on and on and on; US needs to join the aviation revolution. Boston Globe, Dec 8, 2013. www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013 ... kltSORYM/story.html
Note:
(a) Mary (Missy) Cummings. Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsDirector, Humans and Automation LaboratoryHuman-Systems Engineering Track, MIT, undated.
esd.mit.edu/staging/Faculty_Pages/cummings/cummings.htm
(b) "In Japan, drones make up more than 90 percent of all crop dusters, an extremely dangerous job for human pilots."
(i) Yamaha RMAX
rmax.yamaha-motor.com.au/
(A) Click "Hisotry" in the top horizontal bar (the same as the right column):
"Yamaha R-50 [developed in 1987] with its payload of 20 kg was the first practical-use unmanned helicopter for crop dusting.
"Today there are around 2,400 RMax helicopters flying in Japan, representing a 77% market share. And, the number of people capable of operating them has grown to about 7,500 nationwide.
(B) Read "FAQs," "Spray Equipment," and "Agricultural Use" in the top horizontal bar.
Answer to Q1 ("Do I need a license?") says yes to both an operator and the business requesting the service, from "CASA." That is Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Australia. www.casa.gov.au/
The 22-photo gallery is the same, whatever tag one clicks.
(ii) Released in 1997), RMAX (meaning R-MAX) is the second, improved version of (Aero Robot) R-50 (that is what the letter R stands for).
(b) "In Britain, drones can deliver food to your table at a restaurant and pizza to your home."
(i) Leon Watson and Neil Sears, Flying Fish - to Your Table! Sushi restaurant offers diners a taste of the future with gadget designed to deliver food at 25mph. Daily Mail, June 9, 2013 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ver-food-25mph.html
("It is not Yo! Sushi’s only foray into automated food delivery. It was the first UK chain to introduce conveyor belt service and speaking robot drinks trolleys")
(A) Simon Woodroffe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Woodroffe
(1952- ; After a spell in television [as a stafe designer], he conceived and launched YO! Sushi in 1997. The business established conveyor belt sushi bars featuring call buttons, robot drinks trolleys, Japanese TV, self heating plates and other such novelties)
(B) Andrew Ross Sorkin, Yo! Robot! I'll Have Some Sushi and a Beer. New Yorkk Times, Feb 26, 1998 www.nytimes.com/1998/02/26/techn ... shi-and-a-beer.html
("three self-propelled drink trolleys that move through the aisles serving Japanese beers and Diet Coke, stopping whenever a customer waves a hand -- or if a person stands in their path, in which case a digitized voice grumbles, ''Move, move; I've got a job to do.' Yet each trolley also has a distinct personality, thanks to a microprocessor chip that controls the audio")
(C) Hugo Gye, Now That's a Special Delivery: Domino's builds DRONE to deliver pizzas by air and beat the traffic. Daily Mail, June 5, 2013 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... r-beat-traffic.html
(UK Domino's in collaboration with digital agency T + Biscuits chose Guildford in Surrey to be the site of the first test flight, to deliver two large pepperoni pizzas in a 10-minute flight)
(c) "In South Africa, music festival fans have been treated to aerial beer delivery using a smartphone app."
Drone Delivers Beer Not Bombs at S Africa Music Festival. AFP, Aug 8, 2013 www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 1f5c0.301&hl=en
("arel Hoffmann, director of the Oppikoppi festival held on a dusty farm in the country's northern Limpopo province, said the app registers the position of users using the GPS satellite chips on their phones. * * * '[A drone] drops it with a parachute,' he explained. The drone was built in South Africa and nicknamed 'Manna'")