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Braasch was interviewed for an article by Sean Wolfe that appeared yesterday in the Ohio University student newspaper, The Post. Mr. Wolfe did an excellent job providing an overview of civilian drone usage and issues including the regulatory environment.

This past week Boston Dynamics released a YouTube video on the latest version of their Atlas robot. It is 5’9″ tall, weighs 180 pounds and is capable of walking (in snowy hilly terrain!), opening doors, lifting objects and … getting back up after being pushed...

The question over who owns the airspace immediately above your house has been brought to the national stage with Annie Sneed’s recent article in Scientific American, “So Your Neighbor Got a Drone for Christmas.” I have previously commented on the issue of a...

Image Source: Aljazeera America (http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/photo-gallery/2015/12/photos-flooding-inundates-missouri-and-illinois.html) The tragedy of the flooding in Missouri has been brought into sharp focus by drone journalism. The Wall Street Journal posted a...

For all of us geeks out there, the following derivation of the traditional start-of-year message was provided to me by my colleague, Prof. Chris Bartone [Note: the original author of the derivation is unknown…]. Chris is a professor of electrical engineering at Ohio...

I’ve heard of people ‘walking away’ from houses they could neither afford nor sell, but how about one of the biggest planes on the face of the Earth? The classic housing example is Houston in the mid 1980s. From 1981 to 1986 the price of crude oil fell by...

Braasch was interviewed by Theodore Decker for his article in the 30Nov2015 edition of the Columbus Dispatch, “FAA Rules May Hover Over Drone Hobbyists.” Selected quotes from Braasch include: “In terms of commercial applications, I think we very much are on the...

Image Reference: The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) Braasch was interviewed by Scott Kraus of The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) for his article “It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s yet another drone” published in the November 22, 2015 edition. Here...

I attended a conference today entitled “Drones as Disruption: Who Regulates What?” The conference was held at the Ohio State University (OSU) College of Law. There were a wide variety of panelists and here are some excerpts: “We engineers are used to solving problems....

“… the FAA is actually focusing its regulation on the wrong group.” Ben Popper A recent tweet by Sally French of MarketWatch (@TheDroneGirl) led me to Ben Popper’s 13Nov2014 article on The Verge: “I almost killed someone with a drone – That...