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A Dutch firm debuted a drone-snagging drone at one of Europe’s high protection trade expos this week. Delft Dynamics unveiled the DroneCatcher undertaking, a program backed by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Military Police), the Dutch National Police and the Dutch Ministry of Safety and Justice, throughout Defence and Security Equipment …

When DRONELIFE noticed the Epson Moverio augmented actuality glasses final yr, there was an extended line of fans at their sales space, all dying to strive them.  This yr, there’s nonetheless an extended line to take a look at the glasses – however a lot of them are speaking about …

News from France: One of the few remaining rivals to DJI, Parrot, has launched a racing drone: The Mambo FPV. Although it’s most likely extra exact to say that Parrot has launched a number of equipment that make its unique Mambo – a $100, modular minidrone – appropriate for flying …

Skyguide, Switzerland’s air navigation service supplier, and its challenge companions demonstrated as we speak in Geneva how drones will be safely and effectively built-in into the prevailing airspace.  The companions say that the demonstration reveals that drone integration is prepared for deployment in Europe now. The group of companions included AirMap, …

Thanks to the Wright Brothers’ well-known maiden voyage, North Carolina is called the First in Flight State. True to the motto, the Tarheel State (which is a very totally different origin story!) continues to take the lead in drone innovation. The state Department of Transportation launched a feasibility research final …

Earlier this week a Chinese agency, Foxtechhobby, claimed it had set a drone world document with a flight of three hours. The document didn’t stand lengthy. Skyfront, a California startup, is reporting that its multirotor drone, the Skyfront Tailwind, has claimed that document with a flight of 4 hours and …

International analysis group Interact Analysis has simply printed one other estimate of the industrial drone trade. Like most of the analysis printed about the drone trade, the report is optimistic (though much less exuberant than some – Interact Analysis estimates that trade revenues will attain a mere $15bn by 2022.) …

A staff at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a Swiss college specializing in engineering, has developed a foldable, origami-style supply drone that encloses its package deal and has inside propellers for safer transport. It’s been labeled as a drone for “last-centimeter” supply.  Last-centimeter Delivery When studying concerning the thrilling potential …

Last week’s InterDrone convention noticed a lot of recent and modern merchandise introduced.  One of probably the most fascinating was the results of a partnership between CA-based FlightWave Aerospace Systems, Inc. and UK-based Intelligent Energy: the hydrogen-powered Jupiter-H2. The Jupiter doesn’t appear to be lots of the different drones on …

And the winners are . . . There have been some unimaginable movies entered on this yr’s InterDrone Film Festival. As the convention has grown, so has the competitors, giving us another reason to be pleased about attending final week. Here are the winners of InterDrone’s 2017 Film Festival. Hope you …