Global Energy Transmission (“GET”),  a US corporation with its development center in Russia has announced an inductive charging system that charges drone batteries in flight. The goal is to allow electric powered drones to extend the amount of time in the air,  on a theoretical level up to a very …

Skylogic Research has just released the results of their third annual drone industry benchmark survey in it’s newest report, the “2018 Drone Market Sector Report.” Image Credit: Skylogic Research The 2018 Drone Market Sector Report examines worldwide drone sales, service providers, business and public agency users, and software services. The …

A new Women’s Drone Retreat in San Diego next month will help women take their drone business to the next level – with practical, street smart help given in a totally supportive environment. If you happened to swing by the PrecisionHawk booth at InterDrone this month, you might have noticed …

The team at FLIR hears about new uses for thermal imaging all the time – and as thermal imaging is adopted by more drone pilots,  those use cases will continue to expand. That’s why FLIR is on a mission to get thermal to more users – and to make it …

Anyone who has kids,  (ok maybe I have played a few games myself), knows that point and shoot video games can be fun.  In the video below,  Chinese drone company SZMID (“Beijing Shen Zhou Ming Da High-Tech Co., Ltd.”) shows off it drone jamming gun. The video below illustrates how …

Amid the avalanche of product and service launches, partnership announcements and general industry news at Interdrone earlier this month, senseFly, a division of French drone manufacturer Parrot, unveiled a new modular drone for aerial mapping and surveying. On paper, the eBee X looks like a useful fixed-wing aircraft that should …

Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to reading the drone industry.  In 2018, Parrot has evolved from a consumer electronics company to a drone solutions provider offering an impressive range of products. In a late 2015 article in Forbes magazine, Seydoux predicted …

A French-based drone provider just piloted its way into a lucrative funding round with the world’s largest processor giant. Commercial drone solution provider Delair closed an expanded investment deal with Intel Capital, following a year of collaboration on the Intel Insight Platform. The cloud-based, digital-asset management system will allow Intel to …

Drone operating system startup Airware on Friday apparently informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins as well as established non-venture capital firms such as Caterpillar. While we could find no formal announcement as of …

Golf balls raining from above is not normally par for the course at the annual Rotary Golf Tournament in Littleton, Colo. – until now. Last week, drone company Multicopter Warehouse deployed a DJI Matrice 600 Hexacopter to drop 150 golf balls at the start of the charity event. The numbered …