Applications

Image Provided by Ware San Francisco drone startup Ware is using Skydio drones and sophisticated sftware to handle inventory tracking for the warehouse industry.  Inventory tracking is both labor intensive and time-consuming: making it a perfect target for robotic assistance.  The Ware solution uses a drone to capture images of …

From Simactive Canadian mapping software company SimActive has added additional capacity to be able to automatically assess multiple volumes of material (aggregates and other material) for projects and to report based upon the findings. If the same area is being flown, users can then compare the volumes and access differences …

From Their Paper Enabling Self Defense In Small Drones Drone delivery continues to gain traction throughout the world.  From pizza to human organs drone delivery – with its cost and speed advantages over conventional land based delivery options continues to grow. Looking ahead some of the advantage of drone delivery, …

Jean-Christophe BENOIST / CC BY 3.0 Drones are being recognized as a culturally significant development.  In a recent press release,  DJI announced that one of their Agricultural drones is being exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of an exhibit “Countryside,  The Future Explores Digital Impact On the …

Voice of America News: Scott Bobb reports from the Suruç, Turkey/ Kobane, Syrian border; “Turkish Border Towns Hosting Thousands of Kobani Refugees”. / Public domain Drones have an important role to play in journalism.  If a picture is worth 1,000 words, an aerial picture is worth even more.  Drone footage …

  In the continuing race for the major UTM providers to establish relationships with existing legacy based installed air traffic control systems,  NAV CANADA and Unifly have just signed an agreement for Unifly to develop, train and implement an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system that will be integrated into the …

Wuhan, China is the capital of the Hubei province, a city of 11 million people and the 9th most populous city in China.  In general,  China has roughly 4 times the population of the US on about the same land mass: generally, the area is a thriving and bustling industrial …

Image from Commercial Drone.FM Ian Smith of Commercial Drones FM speaks with Dr. Ernest Earon about REIN and their first product DroneInsurance , a great example of  how technology and AI are used to better serve insurance needs in the drone marketplace.  In this roughly 28 minute podcast,  Ian speaks to …

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Cindy Starr The Arctic is getting greener…and that is a very bad thing.  Contrary to what you may have remembered from your grade school days, the Arctic is not the barren wasteland of ice that you may envision.  The Arctic is a rich environment where …

From The Chinese News Service The country of China is deploying drones and unmanned robots to disinfect hospitals and public space,  enforce quarantine restrictions and deliver medicines in their efforts to stem the tide of this growing epidemic, as the world braces for what is edging toward a global pandemic  …