Thank you for flying with us, Ingenuity
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory early adopter of digital wind technology for ensuring flight safety of Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Excerpt from NASA-JPL Ingenuity Preflight Press Conference April 9, 2021 Moral of the story: just relax on a beach in Sardinia, watch...
Boeing Early Adopter of Pixelated Wind Technology
In a press release made on May 11, 2021, Boeing showed interest in adopting pixelated wind technology from our laboratory to test autonomous aerial mobility vehicles. Pending the adoption of the Boeing SuperHornet by the Swiss Confederation, Boeing will commit to...
Making Aerodynamic History
In 1928, Caltech inaugurated its 10-ft wind tunnel, the very first in Southern California. It was inspired by Prandtl's wind tunnel in Göttingen, built in 1909. Theodore von Kàrmàn, who had been Prandtl's doctoral student, was appointed director of the Graduate...
Helping NASA Enable Urban Air Mobility
NASA CAS (Convergent Aeronautics Solutions) has setup a working group to delineate the agency roadmap in the field of Urban Air Mobility in adverse wind and weather conditions. Our laboratory joined the two-day brainstorming session in beautiful Columbus, Ohio on Feb...
1 MCHF for Smart Winds to Certify Drones
HES-SO has been awarded her first BRIDGE Grant as project leader. The goal is to create real environments in which to test and certify drone safety. Our laboratory will be working with Prof Petros Koumoutsakos from ETHZ, who pioneered Machine Learning in fluid...
WindShaper on the HES-SO Annual Report
Photo: Nicolas Righetti.Photo: Nicolas Righetti.Photo: Nicolas Righetti.
NVIDIA Machine Learning Director Promotes WindShape Technology
Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar, director for NVIDIA Machine Learning Research and professor at Caltech, promotes WindShape technology for enabling innovative machine learning in real environments. Her speech was given at the Royal Society of London showcasing World's...
Adverse Winds for Better Drones
Helvets in Tokyo
WindShape was invited by the Swiss Confederation to showcase their technology at Japan's No 1 Technology event, CEATECH 2019. They had to brave mother Nature elements (Hagibis Typhoon) in order to be ready for the event on October 15. On stage, Nicolas Bosson flies a...
WindShape CEO is Switzerland Digital Shaper
Guillaume Catry was named among the 100 most influential people in Digitial Switzerland. https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2019/digital-shapers/portrait-guillaume-catry.html Guillaume was also featured on the front page of the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences...
Bullet Woman – 126.5 km/h World Record
Fastest woman-powered vehicle on the planet - 78.6 mph / 126.5 km/h ! Bravo to Ms. Ilona Peltier and her team from IUT-Annecy. Congratulations to the scientists from NeuralConcept for the shape, as well as the students in our lab and at WindShape for the aerodynamics....
Le Grand JD, Switzerland No 1 Youtuber, New Video about our WindShaper and Wind Turbine Technology
Le Grand JD, Switzerland No 1 Youtuber, paid us a visit this summer. The filming was part of the SIG Vitale Program (Systèmes Industriels de Genève), which has funded our our research to improve the efficiency of wind turbines. The project relies on the use of...
WindShape on Swiss Television
WindShape, HEPIA, and HES-SO are featured in this documentary on Swiss Televison about Switzerland as Home of Drones....
Flyability Elios 2 is here
Elios 2 from Flyability was launched this week. It was tested for aerodynamics performance in our laboratory using a WindShape facility.Antonino Sidoti, R&D leader at Flyability, was at AUVSI - Xponential showing proudly the new product, while he was in our...
Invited to Chicago AUVSI – Xponential to Talk about the Weather
Our lab and WindShape have been invited to share their thoughts about assessing drone (UAS/UAM) performance in adverse weather conditions at AUVSI/Xponential, the annual international conference on Unmanned Vehicle Systems (Chicago, April 29 - May 4 2019). The...
WindShape Instrument among World’s Top Research Facilities
Caltech features its major research facilities worldwide - including WindShape drone aerodynamics facility, the Higgs Boson detector (CMS) at LHC (Geneva), the Hawaï Keck telescopes, the space telescope NuSTAR (aimed at black holes), and many others....