An unmanned vehicle control system is disclosed, comprising a ground control station in operable communication with a plurality of unmanned vehicles via a communications network. The ground control station receives unmanned vehicle mission information and provides a plurality of instructions to the unmanned vehicle to execute a mission including a take-off procedure and a landing procedure. A plurality of microservices process requests from a controller and at least one charging station provides a docking point for the plurality of unmanned vehicles. The charging station provides a power source to the plurality of unmanned vehicles and receives mission information from the ground control station, wherein the unmanned vehicles are operable to deliver a good to a remote location.

Multi-rotor rotorcraft (10) comprise a fuselage (12), and at least four rotor assemblies (14) operatively supported by and spaced-around the fuselage (12). Each of the at least four rotor assemblies (14) defines a spin volume (24) and a spin diameter (26). Some multi-rotor rotorcraft (10) further comprise at least one rotor guard (50) that is fixed relative to the fuselage (12), that borders the spin volume (24) of at least one of the at least four rotor assemblies (14), and that is configured to provide a visual indication of the spin volume (24) of the at least one of the at least four rotor assemblies (14). Various configurations of rotor guards (50) are disclosed.

The present invention relates;to a drone comprising a fuselage (1) provided with a carrying means (11, 12) capable of allowing a belly-to-ground flight position and an inverted flight position, at least one propulsion means (2), autonomous navigation instruments and an axial compartment (10) forming a recess incorporated into an upper part of the fuselage in order to receive a parachutist (h) in the lying position, avionics provided with programmable control means coupled to the autonomous navigation instruments and means for releasing said parachutist controlled by said avionics, characterised in that said release means are designed and intended to ensure the release of said parachutist in the inverted flight position, and,to a piece of airborne intervention equipment.

Systems and methods are provided for autonomous robotic surgery which is preferably integrated with autonomous-assisted intraoperative real-time single modality and/or multi-modality fusion imaging/electrophysiological diagnostics. The robotic surgery systems and methods can be integrated with autonomous-assisted intraoperative body/limb positioning, and integrated with autonomous-assisted land and unmanned aerial vehicular patient transportation.

A method for transporting a person or a parcel from a first location to a second location involves mounting a pod having a rechargeable battery and a compartment to a first vehicle, moving the first vehicle with the pod mounted to a loading position at or near the first location, loading a person or a parcel into the pod, moving the first transporter vehicle from the loading position to a first exchange point, exchanging the passenger pod from the first transporter vehicle to a second transporter vehicle at the first exchange point by de-mounting the pod from the first transporter vehicle and mounting the pod to the second transporter vehicle by a compatible physical interface between the pod and the second transporter vehicle, and transporting the second transporter vehicle with the pod to the second location.

A method for transporting a person or a parcel from a first location to a second location involves mounting a pod having a rechargeable battery and a compartment to a first vehicle, moving the first vehicle with the pod mounted to a loading position at or near the first location, loading a person or a parcel into the pod, moving the first transporter vehicle from the loading position to a first exchange point, exchanging the passenger pod from the first transporter vehicle to a second transporter vehicle at the first exchange point by de-mounting the pod from the first transporter vehicle and mounting the pod to the second transporter vehicle by a compatible physical interface between the pod and the second transporter vehicle, and transporting the second transporter vehicle with the pod to the second location.

Proposed is an eVTOL aerial passenger drone, hereafter referred to as an aircraft, said aircraft comprising an electrically powered fan system, wherein said electrically powered fan system transposes longitudinally- or radially-captured ambient ingress air into at least one tangentially spinning thrust air stream traveling at extremely high outlet/thrust tangential velocities. Said tangentially spinning thrust air stream is corralled from said fan system by at least one volute or entrainment device to a splitter mechanism in order that said thrust air stream can be ejected selectively downwardly, rearwardly, and at an angle between downwardly and rearwardly, for lift and forward propulsion of said aircraft. The electrically powered fan system comprises at least one diagonal fan, preferably at least two diagonal fans in series, and can be additionally used to propel, in an alternative embodiment, a small-to-moderate sized multi-passenger aircraft.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for controlling at least one robot system. This includes offering control of a first robot to a first mobile application, indicating an available service offered by the first robot, and receiving instructions to perform the available service. This further includes delivering: (i) debris, (ii) dust, or (iii) cut grass to a stationary second garbage collection robot. A computing system maintains a device profile for the first robot, indicates the available service and a status of the first robot to the first mobile application, and is configured to update the first mobile application. The first robot is configured to drive while performing the available service and is controlled by at least one of: (i) a camera or (ii) a sensor, to avoid collision. The second robot is a stationary garbage collection robot configured to store the delivered debris, dust, or cut grass.

A building-attachable moving system includes a mobility including a coupling device coupled to outside and an internal space becoming, when the mobility is coupled to an external surface of a building by the coupling device, a portion of an indoor space of the building, and a moving device including a guide member dividing the external surface of the building into areas and driving modules coupled to be movable along the guide member, the moving device moving the mobility from one area to another on the external surface as the deriving modules move, wherein the coupling device is provided in plurality, some of the coupling devices are decoupled when the mobility moves from a current area to a moving area, the driving modules of the current area are moved, the decoupled coupling devices are coupled with the driving modules of the moving area, and the mobility moves to the moving area.

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which comprises causing an article to be picked up and delivered via a working drone substantially without human intervention. The working drone is coupled to a support drone via a tether. The working drone is controlled via a wireless communication system that transmits signals from the support drone to the working drone. The wireless communication system constructed to communicate with a box that receives deliveries via the drone.