Unmanned Aerial Vehicle The latest drone news

This week, a new, hydrogen-fueled drone arrived on the commercial drone market, Narwhal 2—an upgraded hydrogen quadcopter with LTE module and 30 km video transmission range. Narwhal 2 was designed by BSHARK in partnership with MicroMultiCopter (MMC)—manufacturer of the world’s first hydrogen-powered drone, HyDrone 1550. Narwhal 2 is a hydrogen-powered …

The Australian based Telecommunications giant Telstra is trialing new drone technologies to help in disaster management scenarios. If you are not familiar with them,  Telstra currently has over 35,000 employees and does business in over 15 countries.  Telstra now joins a number of telecommunications companies including Verizon that are getting …

Global Energy Transmission (“GET”),  a US corporation with its development center in Russia has announced an inductive charging system that charges drone batteries in flight. The goal is to allow electric powered drones to extend the amount of time in the air,  on a theoretical level up to a very …

Skylogic Research has just released the results of their third annual drone industry benchmark survey in it’s newest report, the “2018 Drone Market Sector Report.” Image Credit: Skylogic Research The 2018 Drone Market Sector Report examines worldwide drone sales, service providers, business and public agency users, and software services. The …

A new Women’s Drone Retreat in San Diego next month will help women take their drone business to the next level – with practical, street smart help given in a totally supportive environment. If you happened to swing by the PrecisionHawk booth at InterDrone this month, you might have noticed …

The team at FLIR hears about new uses for thermal imaging all the time – and as thermal imaging is adopted by more drone pilots,  those use cases will continue to expand. That’s why FLIR is on a mission to get thermal to more users – and to make it …

Anyone who has kids,  (ok maybe I have played a few games myself), knows that point and shoot video games can be fun.  In the video below,  Chinese drone company SZMID (“Beijing Shen Zhou Ming Da High-Tech Co., Ltd.”) shows off it drone jamming gun. The video below illustrates how …

Amid the avalanche of product and service launches, partnership announcements and general industry news at Interdrone earlier this month, senseFly, a division of French drone manufacturer Parrot, unveiled a new modular drone for aerial mapping and surveying. On paper, the eBee X looks like a useful fixed-wing aircraft that should …

Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to reading the drone industry.  In 2018, Parrot has evolved from a consumer electronics company to a drone solutions provider offering an impressive range of products. In a late 2015 article in Forbes magazine, Seydoux predicted …

A French-based drone provider just piloted its way into a lucrative funding round with the world’s largest processor giant. Commercial drone solution provider Delair closed an expanded investment deal with Intel Capital, following a year of collaboration on the Intel Insight Platform. The cloud-based, digital-asset management system will allow Intel to …