With a lot much less fanfare than the primary time round, GoPro has relaunched the troubled Karma drone. The digicam big has fastened the minor drawback that brought on earlier fashions to fall out of the sky. A number of months in the past tales started to flow into that …

Just lately we wrote about Lily Robotics closing the day earlier than the San Francisco District Legal professional filed a lawsuit towards them. Now there may be information that Lily Robotics has been raided for a doable legal investigation. The unique lawsuit filed by the San Francisco DA alleges Lily …

Right here’s your annual reminder: the Tremendous Bowl is a No Drone Zone. The Federal Aviation Administration despatched out a public service announcement reminding individuals that the airspace round NRG Stadium in Houston is a No Drone Zone for the Tremendous Bowl. This yr’s Short-term Flight Restriction will prohibit drones from flying …

DJI Phantom 4 DJI won’t officially confirm that the Phantom 4 has stopped production, but insiders indicate that the product is near the end of its life.  And a short life it was: the Phantom 4 launched to rave reviews less than a year ago, in the spring of 2016. …

We’ve seen so many incredible videos shot via sUAS in far flung locations lately that we decided to collect some of our favorites into a post, so we could share them with everyone in our community. These are places we’d love to visit. We feel lucky that we’ve gotten to know …

If you’re hiking in Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park, look up. The National Park Service staff is working to visualize and document the park’s natural resources for protection purposes. And to do that, they’re using drones. The park’s staff partnered with UAS Colorado in October 2016 to produce a a …

Guest post by DroneDeploy — As one ag industry expert put it, using a drone on the farm is like being able to see your field from a 10,000-foot altitude, but also being able to zoom in to two inches above the plants. Growers are increasingly discovering that drone mapping …

At one time, Lily Robotics was one of the darlings of the drone industry. Back in 2015, Forbes wrote a short, glowing article about an sUAS camera drone that sounded a little magical, a lot amazing, and the good feeling presented in that article had generally persisted from that point on. “The …

SkyPixel, a drone photo-sharing community operated in partnership with DJI, has announced the winners of its latest drone photography contest. The contest drew in more than 27,000 entries from 131 countries. Ge Zheng won the 2016 SkyPixel Photo of the Year with this photo titled, “Fishermen close the net,” which was …

Looking back at the progress the consumer drone industry made in 2016, it’s easy to imagine that 2017 will be packed with revelatory product announcements and further strides forward. However, another bumper 18 months of consumer drone innovation seems unlikely at this point. Here’s why… Let’s begin by concentrating on …