agricultural drones

India’s first government approved drone, the Agribot, was certified in only 35 days – the latest evidence of the country’s determination to support domestic drone manufacturing and become a global drone hub. Continue reading below or listen: India’s Union Aviation Minister has awarded the first Type Certificate issued under the 2021 …

CEO of American Robotics reflects on first FAA approval of autonomous flight: one year later By Jim Magill One year after the company he leads became the first drone system manufacturer to receive FAA approval to operate an autonomous drone system without human oversight, Reese Mozer, CEO of American Robotics, …

Source: XAG One of China’s largest agricultural drone companies is helping to overhaul the rice-farming industry. XAG recently launched a rice-seeding demonstration of seeding via drone at Happy Farms, an agricultural park in Guangdong province. The demo showed how an agricultural drone would fare against human labor. Two workers were tasked …

Image courtesy: Empire Drone Company New York-based UAS firm Empire Drone Company has received a Part 137 certification from the FAA, paving the way for the company to launch crop-spraying missions. Crop-spraying via drone has emerged as a blossoming trend in precision agriculture over the last five years. Unmanned missions …

Courtesy of Purdue University An agbioscience startup is helping Purdue University develop more and better biofuel yields. GRYFN is partnering with Purdue under a $4.5 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. The research will help in the rapid genetic improvement and production …

File The Pakistani province of Sindh has a colossal locust problem. Hometown researcher Shahzad Nahiyoon has a solution from on high. For the past 30 years, farmers in Malir have suffered devastating insect attacks without the benefit of pesticide spraying. A shortage of manned aircraft prevented aerial crop-dusting, resulting in …

Source: senseFly Fixed-wing drone company senseFly is teaming up with Microsoft to optimize food production worldwide with a data-drive farming platform. The Switzerland-based company announced a new partnership with Microsoft Azure FarmBeats. No, that’s not a new set of vegetable-based, overpriced headphones.  It’s a global initiative harvesting the ambitious goal …

Agricultural drone firm AgEagle Aerial Systems yesterday introduced a merger with EnerJex Resources in a inventory commerce. Founded in 2015, AgEagle was named one in every of DroneLife’s “7 Best Agriculture Drones” final 12 months and offers precision ag UAV options. Automated drones gather worthwhile information for farmers by flying …

Agricultural drones can actually save the lives of diseased or parched crops due to new sensor arrays and extra superior software program. In China, farmers are reaping new subsidies from the federal government to spend money on crop-dusting drones. For many small farmers, providing drone companies to neighbors might show …

According to an August examine by Esticast Research & Consulting Market Research, the worldwide business drone market might attain $three.6 billion by 2024. However, a brand new examine forecasts an excellent bigger bumper crop for simply one of many many sub-sectors — agriculture. The examine, launched this week by MarketInsightsReports, …