NASA has awarded Near Earth Autonomy (Near Earth) an SBIR Phase II Contract to Enable Aerial Close-Proximity and Contact Sensing for Inspection of ...
The U.S. navy is closing the gap between real-life laser pointers and fictional death rays, after successfully demonstrating a new energy weapon ...
The Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting Drones For Good™ and the official home of&nbs...
Flirtey, the pioneer of the commercial drone delivery industry, announced today it has been granted a critical patent for the safe and precise drone delivery of packages. This key patent describes a combination of hardware and software that ...
Acecore Technologies, developer and manufacturer of high end European made commercial multirotors, released their third drone platform today. The new Acecore Noa has a 20kg payload capacity that leaves nothing to be desired and the endurance of a ...
May 27, 2020
Citadel Defense Launches Deepfake AI to Prevent Drone Attacks on Military and Government Assets
Citadel Defense, a proven innovator in full spectrum counter drone solutions, has released new software incorporating deepfake neural networks to protect against adversarial spoofing tactics. This capability helps U.S. and allied forces combat ...
The Saker Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) project, a successful partnership of UAVOS and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia, includes development, flying and maintenance.U...
May 25, 2020
DroneShield Launches DroneOptID AI Powered Optical Detection, Identification & Tracking Software
DroneShield Ltd is pleased to announce the release of its camera-based software for drone detection, identification and tracking, DroneOptIDTM. DroneOptIDTM has an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (“AI/ML”) engine at the core of its ...
Leading automated industrial drones startup, Airobotics, receives the world’s first approval to fly over a major metropolis and flies above Singapore.As part of Singapore’s response to protect the public’s health during the coronavirus ...
May 22, 2020
Constant Customer Involvement Drives Next Generation of System Features From Microdrones
Fresh off the heels of releasing a new Microdrones as a Service (mdaaS) business model that makes drone surveying and LiDAR accessible to geomatics companies of all sizes, Microdrones announces additional developments that demonstrate a ...
May 21, 2020
Alliance for Drone Innovation Welcomes DroneBase and CEO Dan Burton as Drone Operators Federation President
Today, the Alliance for Drone Innovation (ADI) (droneinnovation.org) — a Washington, DC-based coalition of manufacturers, operators, suppliers and software developers of personal and professional drones — proudly welcomes DroneBase (dronebas...
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AeroVironment, Inc. , a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced the availability of Quantix™ Recon, a lightweight, rapidly deployable, fully-automated reconnaissance solution that delivers high resolution, georeferenced terrain, vegetation and infrastructure imagery, providing ground forces with on-demand actionable ...
This week, on land north of Toronto that previously burned in a wildfire, drones are hovering over fields and firing seed pods into the ground, planting native pine and spruce trees to help restore habitat for birds. Flash Forest, the Canadian startup behind the project, plans to use its technology to plant 40,000 trees in the area this month. By the ...
Commercial UAV Expo Europe 2020 is going virtual, according to event organizer Diversified Business Communications. “Due to ongoing concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the health and safety of the members of the commercial drone community we serve, we have made the decision to reimagine Commercial UAV Expo Europe as a fully virtual event ...
DroneShield Ltd is pleased to advise that, following a competitive tender, its DroneGun TacticalTM product was selected as the preferred solution by the European Union police forces. The process was run by Belgium Police, with an EU-wide framework. Sales, training and local support will be managed by DroneShield’s Benelux region partner ForcePro ...
A dangerously close encounter between a camera drone and six F/A-18 Hornets flying in formation during a recent U.S. Navy Blue Angels demonstration over Detroit, Mich., confirms the latest aviation safety research released by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.The study, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Aviation, Aeronau...
Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces today that it has entered into a commercial agreement with Sapcorda, a global provider of sub-decimeter GNSS corrections.For over two decades Septentrio has been designing reliable and robust GPS/GNSS receivers ...
DroneInch, Inc., today announced DroneInch 3.0 automation software, featuring new AI-powered analytics capabilities for companies and service providers to gather insights from collected data, dramatically reducing the time to actionable information. DroneInch is the industry's first drone automation software to power the entire drone operations lifecycle. ...
Due to the increasingly frequent, large-scale bushfire, Australia has been facing an unprecedented decline in biodiversity as well as substantial increase in greenhouse gas emission. Particularly, as one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon reserve, peatlands have been experiencing drainage and fires, which contributes to 5% of global carbon ...
Drone technology is a new and innovative approach to accident investigation that substantially improves the ability to visualize how a car or truck accident occurred. Drones enable law firms to provide insurance companies and courtroom juries a new and convincing view of the accident scene.Witherite Law Group Founding Partner and Commercial Truck ...
FlytBase, Inc. today announces the launch of a Preferred Partner Program designed exclusively for drone system integrators, solution providers and drone hardware OEMs. With the mission of helping enterprises automate and scale their drone operations, FlytNow has successfully matured into a commercial-grade solution for managing remote, autonomous drone ...
Volansi, Inc., the leader in autonomous VTOL UAV manufacturing and cargo delivery services, today announces it has received the Airmanship Special Award from the African Drone Forum for its outstanding participation and operational excellence in the Lake Kivu Challenge unmanned aerial vehicle flying competitions.The Lake Kivu Challenge was part of ...
EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world's leading autonomous aerial vehicle (“AAV”) technology platform company, announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with LN Holdings (000524.SZ), a Shenzhen-listed tourism platform company, to further commercialize its AAVs by integrating Urban Air Mobility ...
Everdrone, a global leader in autonomous drone technology, today announced it is now deploying a drone system that delivers Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of cardiac arrests. In doing so, bystanders will now have the ability to initiate life-saving measures while awaiting professional medical care.Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests ...
AeroVironment, Inc. , a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), announced the receipt of a one-year, $75,930,901 funded contract award on April 30, 2020 from the United States Army for procurement of the company’s Switchblade® loitering missile system. The contract award was funded for the first year of procurement through a Joint ...
Steptoe has secured a significant trial victory for Autel Robotics USA at the US International Trade Commission (ITC). On March 2, the chief administrative law judge of the ITC found that SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd. and seven related entities (together known as "DJI"), the world’s largest maker of consumer drones, violated Section 337 of the Tariff ...