Drone Aviation Receives Allowance of Patent for Conversion of Battery-Powered Drones

Drone Aviation Holding Corp.  a manufacturer of specialized tethered aerial monitoring and communications platforms serving national defense and homeland security customers, announced today it has received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) for the system and ...

DJI Urges Authorized Drone Users To Prepare For Hurricane Dorian

DJI, the world's leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, urges authorized drone users in the southeast United States to prepare their equipment and their operating procedures for the impending arrival of Hurricane Dorian. Other drone owners should follow U.S. Federal Aviation ...

XAG Combats Pests With Fully Autonomous Crop Spraying Drones

Facing dreaded pest disease caused by fall armyworms, XAG is among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones in some of the most affected countries, such as Zambia, South Africa, Vietnam and China, to improve the control efficacy that has originally been limited to manual spraying. XAG ...

Elroy Air Successfully Completes First Test Flight of Large Unmanned VTOL Cargo Aircraft

Elroy Air, an autonomy and logistics company developing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo systems, announced the successful completion of its first full-scale system flight test, the 1215 lb prototype reaching a height of 10 feet and hovering for 64 seconds before descending and ...

UAVOS ‘s Hidron Stratospheric Glider Successfully Reaches Altitude Of 30 Kilometers

UAVOS and Stratodynamics have announced that their HiDRON stratospheric glider successfully reached and flew from an altitude of 30 kilometers (98,450 feet), which broke their previous record of 25 kilometers in the process. "During the flight, a new AMON Airglow detector from the ...

Pix4D Reaches New Heights With An Office In The Mile High City

In August 2019, Pix4D opened a new office in downtown Denver. It is the company’s seventh office after Lausanne, San Francisco, Shanghai, Berlin, Madrid, and Tokyo.The move to Denver signifies Pix4D’s strong commitment and alignment with the thriving Geospatial Technology and UAS ...

Explainable-AI Image Recognition Startup Funded for UAS Vision by US Air Force

Z Advanced Computing, Inc. (ZAC), a software startup, is funded by the US Air Force, to use ZAC's detailed 3D image recognition technology, based on Explainable-AI, for drones (unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV) for aerial image/object recognition.  ZAC is the first to demonstrate Explainable-AI, ...