That's the plan behind the Power Line Urban Sentry (PLUS) project currently being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and private firm Defense Research Associates, and it's already yielded UAVs that can land on power lines and charge in three hours.
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The urban surroundings at the High Line play their part as well.
The dense urban neighborhood sits in the Cambridge-Somerville line.
Max Azria wanted to infuse the metal sculptures of the artist duo Les Lalanne with the bandage silhouette of the Herve Leger line, but what he got was urban jungle-inspired armor.
The line came to encapsulate the borough's urban blight of the time.
In both cases, other teams swooped in with tools and troubleshooting advice, a testament to the idea that the Urban Challenge is about more than who crosses the finish line first.
Robert says he wants to target the urban market, too, but if there's an SKX line, he insists it should say "Engineered by Skechers" on the shoebox.
Situated about 12 km west of central Hong Kong, the park will be linked to the airport and the urban area by a spur from the existing high-speed rail line to the airport, and by highway and by ferry.
Though Homs has been the site of urban combat for two years, the soldiers -- from the front line to checkpoints -- appeared largely combat-ready.
On Saturday, when Carnegie Mellon's robotic Chevy Tahoe, known as "Boss, " rolled across the finish line of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge in Victorville, Calif.
The event last July was subtitled "New York Reinvented, " and some 150 French and European mayors, urban planners, developers and architects toured such recent local triumphs as the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park and community regeneration projects in the Bronx.
At the annual Frankfurt show this year, Audi unveiled not only a hybrid version of the top-of-the-line A8 (to complement the hybrid A6 already announced), but showed off an urban concept battery car that is part of its new effort on adopting mobility to the coming world of megacities.
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