consumer drone

Interview: Skydio CEO Adam Bry on Autonomy, Scaling Up & Tak…

Last month, California startup Skydio launched a new drone for the consumer market: Skydio 2. Then came a docking station that looks set to propel the same aircraft onto worksites around the country. The first impression is that Skydio 2 is a drone that could provide serious competition to DJI‘s …

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No Major Releases from DJI in 2019? Why a Consumer Drone Slo…

Before the launch of the RoboMaster S1 earlier this month, many guessed DJI was about to unveil its first consumer drone of 2019: A Spark 2, a new line of FPV racing drones, or maybe even a Phantom 5. But that proved to be wishful thinking. The drone industry’s leading …

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DJI Unveils Two New Drones: Mavic 2 Zoom and Mavic 2 Pro

As expected, DJI has today unveiled two new drones that will aim to bridge the divide between the company’s professional and consumer models. Both are foldable iterations of the popular, top-selling Mavic Pro. Introducing the Mavic 2 Pro and the Mavic 2 Zoom… DJI’s New Drones: The Headlines DJI’s new …

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DJI Release Teaser for Mavic 2 Launch Event On August 23rd

Back in July, DJI delayed the launch event for what we know now is at least one new iteration in the Mavic drone line. The Chinese manufacturer’s ‘See the Bigger Picture’ event was pushed back indefinitely, until this week. In the interim UK catalog retailer Argos accidentally published pictures and details of the new …

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Yuneec Launch Mantis Q into Packed Consumer Drone Market

Chinese drone manufacturer Yuneec has quietly released a new model to the consumer market: the Mantis Q. After taking a look through the specs, the first impression is that this little drone is targeting the same niche as the Mavic Air and Parrot Anafi: drone newcomers and pilots keen to …

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Parrot Offer Huge Price Drops on Additional Anafi Flight Mod…

Following the launch of the new Anafi drone, Parrot has received some criticism for holding back its Follow Me and Flight Plan features for pilots willing to pay extra. At the time of our Anafi review, those additional modes would have set you back $17.99 each. That’s a lot of …

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The Defining Moments of the Consumer Drone Industry

In just a few brief years, the client drone trade has been by means of all of it: skepticism, hype, the increase of pleasure and outdoors funding, corporations overpromising and overstretching, new heights of innovation, palm-sized devices succesful of issues as soon as restricted to science fiction. It’s been an …

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