If you haven’t been following our investigation of the Lily Next-Gen, the Mota Group and, more recently, Drones By US (DBUS), here’s a very quick recap. In October, we reported that a number of customers were having issues with the Mota Group, the company that picked up the pieces after …
Read More »Has The Mota Group Quietly Shut Down? The Curse Of The Lily …
In October we published a brief investigation into goings on at the Mota Group, the company that purchased the marketing and branding rights to the original (and doomed) Lily Drone project. As part of the Mota Group’s marketing efforts, the company used its newly acquired list of let down Lily …
Read More »Fake Reviews and Lily Next-Gen No-Shows: Is the Mota Group L…
When the Lily project imploded in 2017, it was huge news that went well beyond the usual drone industry circles: $34m worth of pre-orders, 60,000 backers left with nothing but the vague promise of a refund; many of whom were left scarred from their first foray into the exciting world …
Read More »The Lily Drone Is Back From the Dead
Back in January, information got here via from Lily Robotics that many had feared: after months of delays, enormous funding and loads of false guarantees, the firm was folding and never a single buyer can be receiving what that they had paid for. Less than a yr on, the Lily …
Read More »Brief Drone News Bits; Hexo+ and Lily Updates; DJI Phantom 2 issue; and Whales
Lily selfie drone has a new ship date The founders of Lily, Antoine Balaresque and Henry Bradlow, in a notice to customers apologized for the delay in the launch of their Lily drone. “We told you we would deliver your Lily Camera this summer, and we are sorry that hasn’t …
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