MIT Makes iPhone App for Controlling UAVs and a Proposal to Combine with Electric and Hybrid Planes for Robotic Flying “Cars”
MIT Professor Missy Cummings and the MIT Research in the Humans and Automation Lab have successfully demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV. Currently soldier carry suitcase-sized controllers. The US military now has 7,000 unmanned aircraft and at least 10,000 ground vehicles. (Part of an 18 page …