Switzerland

Swiss Drone Startup Flyability Snags $8.6 million in VC Fund…

Inspection drone provider Flyability has flown into some green skies—scooping up $8.6 million in Series C investment funding. Led by Future Industry Ventures and Swisscom Ventures as well as existing investor, ETF Partners, the infusion will fuel Flyability’s product development and expansion of its indoor drone inspection efforts. Founded in 2014, …

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Drone Harmony Launches Data Capture Platform for Drone Servi…

Swiss startup Drone Harmony has launched a data capture platform for drone service providers and enterprise customers, which will work in tandem with its established flight planning tools. Drone Harmony users can now count on cloud storage of mission data and a web-based flight planning interface that can be used …

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Drone Harmony Joins European Space Agency Incubator

A Swiss drone company is joining forces with the European Space Agency’s initiative to rocket high-tech startups into successful orbits around the business world. Drone Harmony of Luzern, Switzerland has joined the ESA Business Incubator Switzerland, allowing the start-up to upgrade its UAS missions-planning platforms using satellite data. Created three years …

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Swiss Start-Up Fires Up Laser-based Drone Charger

Few drone pilots enjoy the often-tedious process of charging their UAV of choice. However, several new technologies are taking off that make powering up a breeze – from charging pile technology to landing-pad stations to portable compact chargers. But laser beams? That’s science-fiction, right? Not anymore. The Swiss Federal Institute …

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Drone Harmony App Makes Cell-Tower Inspections Safer

A Swiss-based drone firm is making cell towers safer and cheaper to examine due to an automatic seize app. Drone Harmony of Luzern, Switzerland has developed Cell Tower Scan, an Android app that makes use of the corporate’s UAV planning framework to finish cell-tower inspections in 5-10 minutes utilizing quadcopters. …

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Drone Immersion Flies Beyond FPV Goggles With FlyJacket

There are completely different ranges of immersion that include being a drone pilot. For starters, it’s fairly one thing to have the ability to pilot one thing from the bottom with a monitor in entrance of you displaying your progress. After that, FPV goggles take issues to the following degree. …

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Anti-drone Firm Again Protects Davos Forum

A California-based anti-drone agency protected the world’s most outstanding financial discussion board for the second 12 months within the row, partnering with native police to mitigate potential rogue UAV flights. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dedrone, a software program safety firm that focuses on airspace safety, deployed its anti-drone tools to …

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Matternet Station Enables Medical Drone Delivery in Switzerl…

Matternet is able to launch a drone supply community in Switzerland. Today the logistics firm has unveiled a significant aspect that’s going to make all of it potential: the Matternet Station. The Matternet crew is aiming to take the complexity out of ‘the last mile’ with a hub that handles …

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EPFL Collapsible Drone Offers “Last-centimeter Delivery”

A staff at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a Swiss college specializing in engineering, has developed a foldable, origami-style supply drone that encloses its package deal and has inside propellers for safer transport. It’s been labeled as a drone for “last-centimeter” supply.  Last-centimeter Delivery When studying concerning the thrilling potential …

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Anti-Drone Tech Protects Davos Economic Forum

Fearing possible threats from rogue unmanned aircraft, Swiss police deployed two anti-drone technologies during last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Canton-level police used DroneGun, a signal-killing device manufactured by American-Australian startup DroneShield that can drop errant drones and block video signals from their cameras, as well as DeDrone’s Drone …

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