Wednesday at AUVSI’s Xponential conference in Chicago kicked off with another keynote address – this one carrying the theme of “The Power of Execution.”  In addition to David Albritton, President of General Motors Defence LLC; and Mike Fields of insurance giant State Farm, the morning introduced Carl Burleson, the second …

In what is a growing category of software solutions,  called Sofware as a Service or SaaS,  FlytBase announced that it was showing it FlytGCS for remote operations with BVLOS capabilities this week at AUVSI in Chicago. The hardware agnostic software solution is designed to allow commercial drone operators base level …

senseFly has launched a new drone at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2019, the Solar 360. The fixed-wing thermal drone solution has been designed specifically for solar farm inspections. The senseFly Solar 360 has been developed in collaboration with software company Raptor Maps and promises to enable an automated assessment of solar plant …

They sent their drones up in the air to give a bird’s eye view of flooding in the area. that could change the way Grand Forks responds to flooding. “The whole flooding process is new to me,” said Matthew Henry, a UAS operations manager for Northern Plains UAS Test Site. …

One of the highlights of AUVSI’s Xponential each year is getting to see major thought leaders in the industry.  This morning’s keynotes were no different: with the tagline “The Power of Progress.” Hosted by Airbus’ Travis Mason and introduced by AUVSI President Brian Wynne, the morning was about looking ahead. …

Israel based, Percepto   announced that it has successfully demonstrated its autonomous drones over SK Telecom’s 5G trial network in Korea. While possibly less familiar to western readers,  South Korea is the 11th largest economy in the world. From it’s recent press release: “Percepto today announced that it has successfully …

It’s been a mantra for the commercial drone industry since they got started – if you’ve got a job that is dark, dirty or dangerous, use a drone.  Swiss-based Flyability designs collision-tolerant drones that can perform visual inspections where even other drones can’t fly- into inaccessible spaces like mines, nuclear …

Image: NASA In what appears to be a part of the GE Aviation coming out party for drones at AUVSI in Chicago this week,  Boston based AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation, announced a series of autonomous solutions for commercial applications in the UTM space. This is one of a series …

While Earon was well-known as a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at commercial drone platform PrecisionHawk, he says that the move from CTO to EVP of Artificial Intelligence – and from hardware to insurance – was a natural one.  “Moving from CTO to EVP of AI was a natural …

A drone-delivered pizza feels like a good idea. A drone-delivered vaccine—especially one gently dropped into a place that’s otherwise hard to get to—feels like a great one. And while it might take a while for these things to show up at your specific door, hops forward in the budding drone …