As part of DRONELIFE’s participation in the FAA’s Drone Safety Awareness Week, DRONELIFE will feature stories according to the themes outlined. Today, we focus on the drone industry’s contribution to small businesses. Drone delivery by UPS and Wing dominates the news, and big inspections for the oil and gas and …
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Last month, California startup Skydio launched a new drone for the consumer market: Skydio 2. Then came a docking station that looks set to propel the same aircraft onto worksites around the country. The first impression is that Skydio 2 is a drone that could provide serious competition to DJI‘s …
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Read More »An inside look as a team of drone and law enforcement experts explain the real life challenges of capturing precise aerial images of crime scenes at night. As part of DRONELIFE’s participation in the FAA’s Drone Safety Awareness Week, DRONELIFE will feature stories according to the themes outlined. Today, we …
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Drone-mounted lasers have revealed details of the architecture of an ancient island settlement off Florida’s Gulf coast, researchers said in a new paper published on Monday. University of Florida archaeologists, doctoral candidate Terry E Barbour and Professor Ken Sassaman, used aerial drones with light detection and ranging (Lidar) sensors – …
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Image caption Drones are an increasingly common sight and, outwardly, this one is no different Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people. The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can’t to try to work out where people …
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Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … your burrito being carried by a six-rotor drone from the delivery service UberEats! This week, the now-everything-transportation company unveiled its newest drone, which Uber says should make its first delivery in San Diego next summer. Or at …
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For three talented drone photographers, Halloween proved to be a real treat after their tricked-out videos won the 2019 Skypixel Short Film Contest on Friday. Sponsored by DJI and Skypixel, the sixth annual contest paid out nearly $50,000 worth of drone photography equipment. Skypixel is DJI’s social-media/sharing platform for aerial …
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AI & Analytics DARPA to add reasoning to autonomous teams By Susan Miller Sep 04, 2019 While teams of autonomous systems offer great potential – think drone swarms — they currently require a human to direct actions, anticipate problems and make decisions when circumstances change. They’re also relatively slow, …
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Unmanned Systems ROBOpilot turns manned aircraft to drones in first 2-hour flight By Susan Miller Sep 16, 2019 A mechanical pilot recently completed a two-hour flight at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. ROBOpilot, a collection of mechanical arms, cables, pumps and computer equipment, interacts with an aircraft the way …
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