BELLAIRE, Texas (KTRK) — The Bellaire Police Department is taking to the skies by using new drone technology to provide public safety and service. “It took a helicopter to chase bad guys in the past and it was very expensive to do that,” said Lt. Russell Brown. “Something that an …

Two players in the commercial drone space have just announced a partnership to help reduce insurance costs for commercial drone pilots.  It’s a partnership that makes sense – an InsurTech platform that’s all about quantifying risks, and a developer of drone safety systems proven to significantly reduce those risks: these …

SimActive has just announced some additional functionality removes some of the manual processes currently needed to process softificated imagery.  From their press release below: “Removing the need to manually tag GCPs facilitates the integration of LiDAR data with imagery”, said Dr Philippe Simard, President of SimActive. “Our clients can benefit …

Courtesy of Purdue University An agbioscience startup is helping Purdue University develop more and better biofuel yields. GRYFN is partnering with Purdue under a $4.5 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. The research will help in the rapid genetic improvement and production …

Amsterdam Drone Week opened this morning, and urban air mobility (UAM) – usually treated as an edge case, somewhere far in the future – took center stage. Philip Butterworth Hayes, the editor of Urban Air Mobility News, appropriately kicked things off: creating a vision not only of a world where …

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 3, 2019– The “Teleoperation and Telerobotics: Technologies and Solutions for Enterprise and Industrial Automation 2019 – 2024” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report evaluates the emerging role of teleoperation and tele-robotics in the era of Industry 4.0. The report analyzes the impact of teleoperation and …

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a major theme at Amsterdam Drone Week (ADW).  These discussions are about big, high level ideas – but ideas that have the potential to change the way that everyday people get to and from work and move from place to place in their daily lives.  Anyone …

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Courtesy Surf Life Saving NSW Doctors told Bevan Lyons he’d be dead by Christmas 2018. They were wrong. The 67-year-old Australian is still here, and he’s crossed an item off his Bucket List – to become a licensed drone pilot. Despite being diagnosed with a rare respiratory disease, Lyons thumbed …

The registration deadline has now passed for drone pilots in the UK. As of November 30th, the CAA’s registration and education scheme is mandatory. The new rules apply to drones and model aircraft that weigh between 250g and 20kg and are used outdoors. Drone owners must visit Register-drones.caa.co.uk to register their …