This 12 months’s New York City Drone Film Festival noticed proficient aerial photographers from everywhere in the world enter their greatest work in an effort to win prestigious awards in one in every of eleven classes. As you may think, the successful lineup is an eclectic combination, together with all …
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Airblock, a modular, programmable drone from Chinese robotics startup Makeblock, was honored with a Red Dot Award for Product Design. Makeblock made the announcement at CeBIT, a excessive tech convention in Germany that highlights developments in synthetic intelligence, robotics, and digital actuality. Makeblock is a STEM training and DIY robotics …
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New Canadian rules concerning leisure drone use are drawing ire from UAV entusiasts. Canada lately enacted new drone rules. The new rules that apply to leisure use and had been introduced by Marc Garneau, Canada’s Minister of Transport, embrace however usually are not restricted to the next: Users should mark …
Read More »Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com U.S. Marines are, for the primary time, deploying to Syria (with extra to return). There’s discuss of an “enduring” U.S. navy presence in Iraq, whereas extra U.S. troops are being dispatched to neighboring Kuwait with an eye fixed to the wars in each Iraq and Syria. Yemen …
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It is unimaginable to see how a lot the New York City Drone Film Festival has grown since final yr. In 2016, the #NYCDFF acquired 355 submissions from 45 totally different international locations. This yr, it acquired over four,000. We can solely think about what subsequent yr might be like… Some …
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The southwest area of Virginia is going through a possible financial cave-in and the drone could save the day. The poverty-stricken space is operating out of financial gasoline as the world coal dries up, sucking thousands and thousands of and jobs from the Virginia economic system In the city of …
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“Build Something That Matters,” says the 2017 Hackaday Competition Summary. And whereas the prize might go to one thing actually altering the world, entries to this point fluctuate broadly between the helpful and the – form of, in a bizarre method (sure, we’re speaking about you, “Buttwand“) – entertaining. Hackaday.io …
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There are loads of ways in which drones are getting used past purely industrial operations. Some of them are even performing some good to the planet. Here are 5 methods drones are saving the surroundings. Renewable Energy Inspections: Solar Farms While loads of folks in the trade find out about …
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Andy Teich, CEO of FLIR with Patrick of the Roswell Test Flight Crew Earlier this yr the Roswell Test Flight Crew interviewed CEO Andy Teich of FLIR (pronounced Fleer) on the Black Hornet and thermal imaging for drones. The Black Hornet is manufactured by Prox Dynamics a agency that FLIR …
Read More »Yuneec is following within the footsteps of 3DR and Parrot, amongst others. Like them, Yuneec is experiencing a spherical of layoffs because the drone business seeks stronger traction in each the industrial and shopper markets. Marketwatch is reporting that the drone producer confirmed on Friday that it could lay off …
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