It’s morning in Berkeley, California, and the Kiwibots are heading off to work. These four-wheeled robots navigate sidewalks and even crosswalks taking food to hungry college students. “This is the future,” said Kiwibots CEO Felipe Chávez. It’s a real-world test of robot delivery that sometimes collides with reality. Correspondent John …
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This story about plans from Uber to conduct trials of commercial passenger drone technology by Kathryn Breakwell first appeared in the October 2019 edition of Australian Aviation. A rendering from Uber of a Skyport landing and departure point. (Uber) It may seem like a flashback scene from the animated sitcom …
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What started out as “a couple snowflakes” recently turned into an avalanche for a Sudbury-based drone company, which recently struck a deal that will assist its global expansion. Unmanned Aerial Services Inc. (UAS), an inspection service provider for indoor industrial confined spaces and underground mine locations, signed an investment agreement with …
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Anurupa Chowdhury [CC BY 3.0 ] India’s government is taking steps to regularize commercial drone use, as it begins to build and deploy a nationwide unmanned traffic management (UTM) architecture. India’s current drone regulations, Civil Aviation Regulation (CAR) 1.0, lists very specific software and hardware requirements which most imported drones, including …
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Everyone loves holiday lights. Here is great example, filmed by katie.j11 and posted at our friends at Airvuz.com, the largest collection of drone videos on the web. Rice Park is a public park in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It features a fountain, a bandstand, sculptures of characters from …
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India’s drone industry is on the rise – and investors, service providers, drone ecosystem companies and customers who are interested in what could be one of the world’s biggest markets can get an insider’s view at the Drone Festival of India, held January 6 and 7 in New Delhi. Register …
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The rise of cashless payments will result in ATM deserts. In 2020, the drive towards a cashless society will result in increased debt for consumers, and the increasing popularity of drones will replace fireworks. These are some of the predictionspublished by Nesta, the global innovation foundation, in its annual predictions …
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Courtesy of EHang Passenger drone company Ehang has been fascinating the drone industry for years, since the company first introduced a passenger drone prototype at CES in January of 2016, after winning over $50 million in venture capital in 2015. In 2017, rumors of financial difficulties (which the company said …
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UK UTM provider Altitude Angel has announced the company has been awarded a contract to provide the Netherlands’ air traffic control authority, Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland (LVNL), with a nationwide UTM platform. Altitude Angel’s solution will provide the Netherlands with a UTM platform aimed at safely integrating drones into Dutch airspace. The …
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Deputy CEO of Spatial Innovision, Roshaun Clarke, (left) presents a drone to CDEMA’s Executive Director Ronald Jackson. (GP) Given the region’s high vulnerability to natural and technological hazards, the need for smart tools and technologies to support regional preparedness and response for disasters remains a key priority for the Caribbean …
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