A brand new participant is leaping into the precision agriculture market with an autonomous drone platform. American Robotics, a Boston based mostly drone developer targeted on agricultural automation, introduced it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. Angel traders led the spherical that included Brain Robotics Capital LLC, a fund …

SkyX, an aerospace firm primarily based in Ontario, Canada, has acquired $4m USD of a deliberate $5m USD funding from Kuang-Chi Group, a Chinese know-how group primarily based in Shenzhen that focuses on investing in cutting-edge aerospace options. SkyX has developed a self-charging drone to be used within the monitoring …

Sponsored by MMC: One of the major boundaries to entry for drone applications in the enterprise is training.  The adoption of drone expertise requires new expertise in any group.  Businesses don’t solely want skilled pilots: they want coaching on industrial purposes, plane meeting and restore, and fleet upkeep. Now MMC, China’s …

The drone trade continues to be within the early levels of progress, nevertheless it appears to have progressed previous the very first section of bleeding edge expertise and to be transferring – quickly – in direction of confirmed answer.  As enterprises ramp up adoption of drone expertise, drone producers who began promoting …

Optelos proclaims the PointCloud Visualizer, which permits drone operators to add knowledge to the cloud after which create knowledge fashions, which could be seen and shared with shoppers and stakeholders. Pix4D, DroneDeploy, and different drone mapping software program are options for processing and producing detailed knowledge fashions. The problem, nonetheless, …

A key participant within the drone countermeasure market has scored a victory with a brand new navy contract that might assist win the warfare in opposition to ISIS. In partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, the U.S. Marine Corps awarded a contract earlier this month to anti-drone agency Sensofusion. …

We first heard about Droneworks Studios by means of their work with Casey Neistat for his HUMAN FLYING DRONE video. Elaine Lozano and Justin Oakes, the co-owners of Droneworks Studios, have been those who constructed the customized drone that lifts Casey Neistat into the sky. Justin is a former drone racer and, along …

Friday’s Federal Appeals Court resolution to vacate the FAA’s drone registration program because it applies to mannequin plane has raised severe questions within the business about what occurs subsequent. John Taylor’s win in his case in opposition to Michael Huerta and the FAA over drone registration for mannequin plane is …

Late final week DJI introduced an replace to its course of for activating new software program and firmware releases and social media channels have lit up with confusion and annoyance. The change in course of ties flight performance to to registration. DJI in a discover issued this previous Saturday states, …

 San Francisco – based mostly startup Kittyhawk (kittyhawk.io), declares one other piece of their end-to-end drone operations answer.  Flight Deck is a brand new characteristic that brings in-flight controls and performance to the Kittyhawk platform, connecting the pre- and post-flight options of Kittyhawk with in-flight capabilities.  “Kittyhawk’s Flight Deck removes the need for switching between …