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picture: Tinki.ni We’ve had drones to supply Slushies and burritos, drones with flamethrowers, insect drones, chook drones, and vampire drones.  And simply while you thought you had heard all of it on the functions for drones, Tinki.nl, a Dutch canine web site, and its accomplice House53, a world check middle for …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

DroneLife,  JobforDrones, and DroneRacingLife, a household of websites targeted on the united statesindustry, right now introduced a partnership with AirVuz, a supplier of drone video content material. The three websites will publish tales based mostly on unique and curated video content material supplied by AirVuz. “We are excited to be …

Sanata Monica based mostly AirMap, an airspace administration platform for drones, has shaped a three way partnership with Rakuten, Inc., an web providers supplier headquartered in Tokyo, to develop Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) options for drone operators and airspace managers in Japan. The partnership follows Rakuten’s participation in AirMap’s latest Series B funding …

Whatever nation you’re primarily based in, it’s possible that there are laws in place surrounding leisure and industrial drone flights. Some are pretty common sense, corresponding to the necessity to keep away from airports, prisons and navy bases. Others are much less clear minimize, like nationwide parks or what constitutes a …

An older mannequin of Amazon’s drone, 2015. Amazon appears undaunted, persevering with to maneuver ahead on drone supply regardless of continued regulatory resistance.  They launched the latest model of their supply drone – beneath strict supervision by safety guards – this weekend at the SXSW know-how convention in Austin, TX. …