Teams Will Now Compete for One of Five Investments; $1 million Top Prize and Four awards of $500,000 Each GENIUS NY , a business accelerator program at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, today announced a new investment structure for round three of the innovative GENIUS NY unmanned aerial systems (UAS) business …
Read More »Drone Software Firm Teams Up with Experts to Make Searches E…
Drone mission-software provider UgCS (or SPH Engineering) is partnering with Airborne Response to enhance UAV-led search and rescue efforts. UgCS software enhancements includes customizable search patterns such as the “expanding square” and “creeping line” that can be used in both search operations and on other missions. “Based on the flight …
Read More »Verity Studios Will Light Up Drake’s Latest Tour with Drone …
Swiss-based, indoor-drone developer Verity Studios has announced a partnership with rapper Drake to provide an autonomous, swarm-based drone show to the artist’s Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour. A company press release describes the micro-drone choreographed event: “Elevate, a song on Drake’s new album Scorpion, opens with the micro drones …
Read More »Capitalize on the Value of Data and Learn to Use Professiona…
Over the past year, the drone industry has sharpened its focus on drone software, as opposed to drone hardware, as the main driver of market growth. According to Pix4D trainer Angad Singh, the real value of the drone industry lies not in the drone itself, but in the data drones …
Read More »Intel Claims Leadership Role in Drone Regulation Space
As the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) gets underway, Intel is claiming a leadership role in the development of new drone regulations. Intel is a partner in four of the ten sites chosen by the FAA to participate in the IPP, testing drone applications currently outside the boundary of FAA …
Read More »Drone/AI Firm Captures $11 million Investment to Fund Turbin…
AI startup Clobotics has raised $11 million in funding in a continuation of its Series A round of financing, bringing total funding to $21 million. The company will use the funds to expand AI, machine learning and data analytics into the wind-power industry allowing customer to deploy autonomous drones in …
Read More »Drone Insurance Company SkyWatch.AI Shares Insights, Rolls O…
A just out, monthly drone insurance plan has been added to SkyWatch.AI’s insurance plan options to meet the needs of “frequent flyers.” If you fly your drone so often that on-demand insurance doesn’t make sense for you, SkyWatch.AI’s new SkyWatch Plus program might be just for you. About the SkyWatch …
Read More »DJI Release Teaser for Mavic 2 Launch Event On August 23rd
Back in July, DJI delayed the launch event for what we know now is at least one new iteration in the Mavic drone line. The Chinese manufacturer’s ‘See the Bigger Picture’ event was pushed back indefinitely, until this week. In the interim UK catalog retailer Argos accidentally published pictures and details of the new …
Read More »First Ever Voice-Controlled Drone, Mantis Q, Announced by Yu…
Voice control capabilities are on the rise in many tech products, now including drones. On August 14, 2018, Yuneec, the world leader in electric aviation, announced the first ever voice-controlled drone. Thanks to Yuneec, we can add a new name to the list of sophisticated, voice-controlled products—Mantis Q, the latest …
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image: Rolf H via Wikicommons The following is a guest post from John Saginario: FPV flyer, writer and host of the Wild Flyers podcast. As drone racing season heats up, along with the weather in most parts of the U.S., pilots nationwide are getting their quads in shape for fun …
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