An integrated engineering system including multiple drones and an Electro-Mechanical drone transportation system for a new method of aviation flight transportation by the drones. These drones can be used either for passenger transportation or for parcel delivery. These drones may fly to land onto or fly to attach to carriers of the Electro-Mechanical drone transportation system then travel a distance with the carriers as unified objects. This integrated engineering system facilitates a novel method of aviation flight transportation by drones by uplifting a limit of maximum travel distance of the drones, hence making those drones a more practical tool for future aviation transportation within a city or between the cities. The Electro-Mechanical drone transportation system may include multiple routes to form a complicated transportation network to increase the number of potential destinations for the drones.

An exchange station has openings for drones, a passenger check-in/check-out bay for processing passengers, a drone connect/release bay, having apparatus adapted to manage passenger pods mounted on smart chassis, and a computerized control system in wireless communication with control circuitry in the drones and smart chassis, guiding smart chassis with mounted passenger pods and drones, to make the exchange of pods from the smart chassis to drones. A passenger entering the passenger check-in bay is loaded into a pod mounted on a smart chassis, the pod with passenger is transported to the drone-connect/release bay, and the pod is there joined to a bare drone and disconnected from the smart chassis, the drone leaving with the passenger pod to a destination, and the smart chassis traveling away from the drone connect-release bay.

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.

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 high rise building escape drone is shown and described. The high rise building escape drone includes of a frame. The frame has a spine secured to an upper housing. The upper housing secures a motor and a CPU operably connected to the motor. The motor is rotatably coupled to at least one propeller. A seat is secured to the spine below the upper housing. A control panel is secured to the seat. The control panel is operably coupled to the CPU and is capable to control the drone. A plurality of feet are secured to a bottom of the spine such that the feet support the drone.

A service providing apparatus of providing a service according to a state of a passenger in aircraft during autonomous flight includes a processor; and a storage medium recording one or more programs configured to be executable by the processor, wherein the one or more programs include instructions for an input/output (I/O) module receiving biometric data and a captured image of a passenger in real time, a determination module determining a state of the passenger based on the biometric data and the captured image of a passenger, and a control module performing a preset process according to the state of the passenger, wherein the preset process includes: a first process for adjusting a flight path of the aircraft when the state of the passenger is an emergency state or a second process for relieving tension when the state of the passenger is a state of tension

Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a convertible rotor aircraft CRA able to convert between airplane and helicopter flight modes during flight, comprising a tillable proprotor assembly TPA comprising a proprotor. Optionally, the CRA comprises a flight control module FCM configured to control the TPA to reverse direction of thrust generated by the proprotor relative to the TPA when the TPA transitions between a first orientation for helicopter flight and a second orientation for airplane flight. Optionally, the CRA comprises a deployable guard for the proprotors, configured to have a stowed state and a deployed state, wherein: the guard in the deployed state is controlled to be configured as a partially air-permeable barrier.

An apparatus and method for centralized control of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a processing circuitry; and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the apparatus to: establish control of a vehicle, wherein establishing the control further includes determining a set of instructions for controlling the vehicle, wherein the apparatus is configured to control the vehicle based on the determined set of instructions; determine, for a node, a subset of the set of instructions for controlling the vehicle; generate a mission plan for the vehicle based on a request from the node when the request is valid, wherein the request indicates a requested navigation from a first location to a second location, wherein the request is not valid when the requested navigation is not in the subset of instructions; and send, to the vehicle, control instructions for navigating to the first location and control instructions for navigating from the first location to the second location based on the mission plan.

A transport system has a first set of substantially parallel rails supported above ground level by support structures, a trolley having wheels mounted to a frame with the wheels engaging the rails, at least one wheel powered to move the trolley along the set of rails, a portion of the frame depending between the rails to a level below the rails, and a downward-facing latching interface on the depending portion of the frame, and a pod enabled to carry a passenger or parcels, or both, engaged by an upward-facing latching interface to the downward-facing latching interface of the trolley, such that, as the trolley travels along the rail set, the pod is carried along below the rail set.

The invention discloses a waitressing drone that brings drinks to people at the restaurant, and the orders are identified from the Facebook photo of the user, that the drone displays when making the delivery. The invention facilitates the interaction with humans and drones via the social network. With the invention, the order input time is greatly reduced for the consumer, and the consumer may move about while waiting for the order as the drone finds the consumer. Also importantly, the social nature of the drone allows for the sharing of drones among multiple human users. Further, the interfacing of the social human profile with non-human drone profiles allows for the continuous retraining and reprogramming of drones to meet more specific and individualistic user tasks, thereby liberating people from mundane manual labour.