A French-based drone provider is planting new seeds it hopes will take root over farms around the world. Commercial drone solution provider Delair this week launched a new UAV model focused on the agriculture industry — the UX11-Ag. Built on the company’s current UX11 fixed-wing drone, the new version “combines the …
Read More »FWPD Upgrading drone tech – WOWO 1190 AM
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Fort Wayne police are using some new tech to take on unauthorized drones around the Summit City. Officer Michael Hickman tells our Partners in News at ABC 21 they’ve made upgrades to their own drones to allow them to track down not just the drones that either …
Read More »Drones for Good: Lifesaving Vaccines Will Be Delivered by Dr…
Jospeh Hing and Rebecca Olul introiducing the chgildren of Epi to the magic of drones and how they will be part of a world first drone delivery of vaccines trial to be held in Vanuatu. Credit: UNICEFPacific/2018/Chute When Unicef Australia contacted us earlier this year to try and encourage applications …
Read More »CSIRO drone spinoff Emesent raises AU$3.5 million
(Image: Kevin Lee) A drone company spun out of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has collected AU$3.5 million in a funding round led by the CSIRO Innovation Fund, and joined by mining executive Andy Greig. Emesent will use the cash to commercialise its Hovermap product, which uses …
Read More »Kiwi drone company raises $1m, explains its ‘shroud’ technol…
Kiwi drone startup Dotterel Technologies has raised $1.06m from Sydney-based Jelix Ventures, which specialises in backing early-stage companies. Jelix now has an 11.45 per cent stake in Dotterel. Other investors include managers, Sir Stephen Tindall’s K1W1 fund, Crown agency NZVIF, Techstars Australian Defence Accelerator and Auckland University’s commercialisation arm Uniservices …
Read More »Drone racing and robot fighting on show in Wellington | 1 NE…
Maker Faire makes it’s New Zealand debut. A festival of curiosity and innovation for all-ages of dreamers, creators, scientists and makers, is being hosted by Capital E in November, the first time it’s been held in New Zealand. Part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new, Maker …
Read More »China Reportedly Walking ‘Phantom’ Drone Warpath With US
Tech 20:15 03.11.2018Get short URL Remotely controlled weapons and detectors lurking behind seabed plants, highly intelligent drones capable of cognition and thus of prompt and accurate reactions, as well as promising bionic devices – these are just part of the underwater arsenal the Chinese will reportedly come up with in …
Read More »AUVSI Top Operator Plan Takes Drone Pilots to New Heights
They may not have Tom Cruise, but the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International is going to Top Gun – well, Top Operator. The world’s largest non-profit for the advancement of drones and robotics is launching the Trusted Operator Program, a certification program allowing drone pilots and UAS training groups …
Read More »MIT, NASA develop tech that could be used to find missing hi…
New drone technology that could allow fleets of the unmanned vehicles to navigate without GPS, developed by MIT and NASA, could help find hikers lost in the wilderness and one day could be used to make their way over the surface of the moon and Mars, researchers say. “You can …
Read More »Getting Kids Excited About Drones
The following is a guest post by talented Part 107 Pilot and author, Kara Murphy. A few years back, I taught my daughter’s kindergarten class about drones. Of the eighteen kids in the class, only three had ever flown one with a parent and they were all boys. Flash forward …
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