ASSURE Announces Results of Phase II Ground Collision Study

What could happen if a drone hit a person on the ground? What are the risks of serious injury from flying small unmanned aircraft over people, and are we doing everything we can to reduce those risks? Through its continued research, the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), has developed a standard methodology by which potential injury may be evaluated. The ASSURE research team, led by ...

Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Backed Drone Communication

Walmart has reasserted its interest in blockchain-backed drones with a recent patent application. The commerce giant filed for an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain” in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishing the patent on August 1. The patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blockchain-based coordination system was published the same day as Walmart’s digital ...

AIRT Announces Rebranding of UAS DRONES Disaster Conferences to DRONERESPONDERS Series

AIRT (Airborne International Response Team), a Florida 501(c)3 non-profit organization, has announced it will rebrand its public safety-related conference programming under their new DRONERESPONDERS brand as the organization retires the UAS DRONES Disaster Conference series effectively immediately.   AIRT Executive Director Christopher Todd announced the move while speaking live on Technology Revolution: The Future of Now with Bonnie D. ...

VOXL from ModalAI Contributes to Uber Eats Drone Delivery Testing

Uber Eats successfully tested its first food delivery by drone recently, in a high-density urban area with the assistance of technology from San Diego-based startup ModalAI. As the drone carried its edible cargo, VOXL, a powerful yet light-weight computing platform with 4G cellular connectivity, helped keep it safely on the flight path, even when the drone was out of sight from the pilot-in-command.   “The success of the Uber Eats ...

Fortem Technologies Partners With HPE To Develop Security And Data Solution

Fortem Technologies, Inc., the leader in airspace safety and security for an autonomous world, has signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver an industry-first custom package of drone solutions to integrate with any drone platform for public infrastructure, venues and cities requiring advanced security and data processing to protect against ground and airborne threats. New solutions ...

UAVOS Introduces Its Concept-based Approach Towards The Civil Security Robotics

Value of the UAVOS autopilot is the ability to integrate the system into unmanned platforms weighing from 5 to 1500 kg for various purposes - both air and ground/water based. The uniqueness of UAVOS autopilot is a distributed architecture that allows to carry out UAV formations as well as flights without GPS and communications.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6izSefWg7Rw How does UAVOS autopilot work? UAVOS autopilot has a ...