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If you’re considering drones you could have heard the time period LiDAR thrown round fairly a bit, particularly in the previous couple of years. But what’s LiDAR, and the way is it getting used with UAVs? This submit will dive deep into the subject, first what LiDAR is, after which …

Flytrex Drone The first true client drone supply program in an city atmosphere is efficiently underway in Reykjavik, Iceland, the place drone supply firm Flytrex has partnered with AHA, one of Iceland’s largest eCommerce firms. It’s no shock that Reykjavik is one of the primary cities in the world to …

The Roswell Test Flight Crew met with a number of corporations whereas attending the Future Farm Drone Rodeo in Portland. In this episode, the Roswell Flight Test Crew hears from Gary Licquia of RDO Integrated Controls concerning the SenseFly eBee: a fixed-wing platform that flies solely utilizing autonomous, waypoint-driven missions. …

Drone supply firm Zipline has been on our radar for a while now as an awesome instance of drones doing good on the earth. In case you haven’t heard of them, Zipline is a drone supply firm that focuses on medical deliveries, carrying blood and medical provides to rural, hard-to-reach …

CA-based mostly drone supply pioneer Zipline has partnered with the Tanzanian authorities to ship vital and life-saving medicines to over 1,000 well being services.  The program, which can serve 10 million folks throughout the nation with as much as 2,000 drone deliveries per day, would be the largest drone supply service …

Image: Autodesk Drone manufacturing might have been revolutionized this week.  Design software program and providers firm Autodesk and the US Marine Corps (USMC) have introduced a profitable challenge to create new navy drones utilizing 3D printing expertise. The new drone, nicknamed “Scout,” is a small fastened-wing surveillance drone.  It can …

They say “Everything’s Bigger in Texas” and for a lot of Lonestar State’s public-safety businesses that features “going drone or going home.” In the small city of Midlothian, the Southern Regional Response Group not too long ago deployed three members into drone coaching and certification utilizing DJI Inspire 1, Mavic …

Unless you’ve been residing underneath a rock, you realize that an unbelievable photo voltaic eclipse was seen all through a number of states in the U.S. on Monday (try maps of the full path of the eclipse right here). People throughout the nation got here out in big crowds to …

Wingtra is the most recent European drone agency looking for a foothold within the US market. Based in Zurich, Wingtra manufactures a VTOL drone, the WIntraOne. They promote it as a UAV that mixes “​the ​​benefits ​​of ​​agile ​​multirotors ​​[with] the ​​high ​​endurance of ​​fixed​-wing ​aircrafts.” After​ being launched earlier …

DJI has introduced the main points of a Back-To-School promotion, interesting to college students with offers on chosen drones and among the firm’s handheld merchandise. The promotion began yesterday. Students can purchase as soon as registering by way of the Education part of the DJI retailer. The unique back-to-school offers …