Last week we wrote about Ehang’s record-breaking gentle present in Guangzhou, China, in which 1,000 drones had been used in a drone swarm. The earlier record-holder was Intel, with a swarm of 500 drones, and Lady Gaga’s current halftime efficiency on the Super Bowl used 300 of Intel’s drones, popularizing the drone …

NASA Senior Flight Engineer Dr. Ricardo Arteaga and Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson on-site for past line-of-sight testing at NASA Armstrong, Image courtesy Vigilant Vigilant Aerospace, below the commentary of the FAA and NASA, has accomplished past visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight testing of its new FlightHorizon collision avoidance system for drones.  The …

Together with CATIC, MMC, the drone producer, unveiled the HyDrone 1800 at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2017) going down at the Abu Dhabi nationwide exhibition middle. It represents the subsequent technology of its hydrogen expertise and the corporations mentioned it’s designed for the army. The carbon-fiber HyDrone …

In a significant transfer to turn into a participant within the bigger Internet of Things and, particularly drones, Verizon ((NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ)) has acquired Skyward. It is a major improvement within the development and maturity of the drone trade and marks a one thing of a milestone. Along with Intel, …

Guest Commentary by Darr Gerscovich, former SVP Marketing at DroneDeploy — In case you missed it, Verizon announcement yesterday that it was buying Skyward, a drone operations administration software program firm.  Major information for my part.  After the third individual requested for my opinion, I made a decision to draft …

Photo courtesy WeRobotics Patrick Meier and his group of digital humanitarians is at work once more – this time bringing their Flying Labs to the Amazon rainforest. WeRobotics is a group of entrepreneurs, drone adventurers and humanitarians bringing robotics expertise to communities for social good.  Their “Flying Labs” are collaborative …

An knowledgeable panel of judges from prime funding companies has made the primary lower.  Of the 65 drone startups who submitted their purposes to The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) to compete within the Startup Showdown at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2017 convention, the record has been winnowed to 16 …

Photo Mark Peterson/Fortune Magazine license by CC 2.zero News and Commentary.  Today’s announcement that telecommunications firm Verizon has bought business drone platform Skyward offers additional proof that enormous corporations are persevering with to spend money on the trade, hoping to cement their stake within the huge potential of drones and the …

EHANG 184 When Chinese drone producer Ehang launched their Ehang 184 passenger drone at CES in 2015, it definitely acquired a number of consideration.  But when business watchers identified that no person had truly seen one fly but – and that rules at the very least on this nation had …

BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) flights characterize an enormous space of alternative for the drone trade. BVLOS refers to drone flights carried out past the pilot’s line of sight (versus Visual Line of Sight, or VLOS flights, that are carried out inside the pilot’s line of sight). Using First Person View …