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Now Fly Drones with your iPhone
Gizmo Watch — ... existing plethora of robots to run their experiments. Total cost of the project summed up to $5000, including the cost of a Quad-Rotor-Robot and the iPhones for the team. This will mean that soldiers can use the technology for surveillance and spying operations and when jobs over they can call their friends and family. Just skeptical, what happens if during the use of this application a call comes in; does the application stop instantly or the call disconnects? Via: Wired

Need to Fly A Military Drone? Yep, There's An iPhone App For That [UAVs]
Gizmodo — ... to control hand-thrown Raven UAVs. The iPhone app they developed sends GPS coordinates to the craft, which then in turn can send photos and video back to the iPhone. We had the idea in June," Cummings told Danger Room. "In six weeks, we went from the idea to a real flight test," using MIT's indoor robot range. (See video.) The total cost? $5,000 for a new, commercially available, quad-rotor robot - plus the cost of iPhones for her crew. [Wired Danger Room] DoD photo by Tech. Sergeant Russell E. Cooley IV, U.S. Air ...

UAV Control: There’s an app for that
CrunchGear — ... scheme. Not only that, they developed a new, quad-rotor robot and purchased all the iPhones for less than $5,000. Now this new robot and app isn’t limited just to military use. It’s ready for other applications and Cummings is hoping picked up by the commercial market. Just think how many uses a small, quad-rotor robot that sends pics and GPS location data back to the iPhone could have? I can think of a couple and at least one isn’t creepy at all. [Wired Danger Room via Gizmodo]

Tuesday Fun Video: iPhone Controlled Flying Drone
The iPhone Blog — Either one of the most awesome iPhone developed concepts yet, or MIT professor and Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot Missy Cummings has just given the iPhone’s Skynet/Matrix/Cylon decedents the origins of the flying hunter/seekers they’ll be using to wipe us out. [Via TUAW via Wired] This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. Tuesday Fun Video: iPhone Controlled Flying Drone ...

UAV Controlled With iPhone
The Iphone Spot — ... During her tenure as a pilot, Professor Cummings became frustrated with the Hornet’s cockpit. “I spent whole time complaining – who was the moron who designed this thing?” she told Wired. At MIT, she and her students were inspired to consider a replacement for the huge controllers that US soldiers use to operate ...