Drone Delivery Canada, University of Toronto and Defence Research & Development Canada Announce Partnership

Drone Delivery Canada 'DDC announced that it has entered into a Sponsored Research and Collaboration Agreement with the University of Toronto and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and ...

SBG Systems Launches Next-Gen Of The Ekinox Series Inertial Sensors

Ekinox 2 Series is a new generation of the SBG’ advanced and compact inertial navigation systems. With new accelerometers and gyroscopes, Ekinox 2 attitude accuracy has been enhanced by a factor of two. Ekinox 2 Series: Twice More Accurate Ekinox Series is a line of tactical grade MEMS-based ...

Amazon’s Prime Air Drone Makes Its First US Delivery @ MARS 2017

Amazon announced its plans to test delivery drones in Britain last July and in December, the firm revealed it had made its first delivery within just 13 minutes. And although Amazon did get the green light to start testing its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at a US site last summer, the drops ...

SolAero Technologies Provides Solar Power For NRL’s Solar-Soaring UAV Project

SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), a leading provider of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and composite structural products for satellite and aerospace applications, announced today that it has delivered its high performance, lightweight solar cell technology to the U.S. ...

JTT Industrial UAS Is Guarding the Coast of Australia, Protecting People From Shark Attacks

JTT Technology was the first Chinese partner to work with Little Ripper, an Australian life-saving organization. Its T60 industrial drone left a great impression for its long battery life working hour, large payload capability and stable performance in patrolling over the Australian coast.JTT ...

uAvionix, Kongsberg Geospatial Announce Integrated ADS-B Technology

Kongsberg Geospatial’s IRIS UAS situational awareness display now integrates the uAvionix PingStation ADS-B receiver to provide an effective way to monitor drones and airspace. Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based developer of real-time geospatial visualization software, announced today with ...

Amazon Patents Drones With Telescoping Legs And Foldable Propellers

Amazon’s inventors are taking a page from Inspector Gadget’s playbook to design drones with adjustable landing legs and reconfigurable propellers.Those two design tricks are the focus of patents issued today. It’s hard to say whether they’ll become features on Amazon’s delivery ...