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DRONELIFE EXCLUSIVE: Colin Guinn on the drone industry, drone regulations, and his new gig at Sunflower Labs. It’s kind of hard to get in touch with Colin Guinn.  That’s because he’s doing a return appearance on Season 31 of The Amazing Race – a reality TV show where teams race …

UK-based Heliguy, one of DJI’s largest European enterprise partners and distributors, has been awarded a nationwide contract with Network Rail as part of a drone services framework worth up to £2.6million. Heliguy will supply, maintain, repair and service Network Rail’s drones, as well as delivering training courses to the infrastructure …

Chinese drone industry leader DJI has confirmed plans to build drones at a new production facility in California. With concerns raised over DJI’s data security practices and the threat of a ban on the use of DJI products by US government agencies, Mario Rebello, the manufacturer’s VP of North American …

A recent CNN report revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had warned that Chinese-manufactured drones pose a “potential risk to an organization’s information.” No particular manufacturer was named in the report. But DJI, the Chinese industry leader that’s been the target of similar accusations …

DJI has sent a letter to a Senate subcommittee in response to “inaccurate claims” made last week by witnesses concerning the Chinese manufacturer’s data security. On June 18, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Security hearing took place, entitled “Drone Security: Enhancing Innovation and Mitigating …

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 …

DJI’s ‘Learn to Win’ teaser has culminated in a ground robot for the educational market, the RoboMaster S1. The launch follows on from DJI’s collaboration with RyzeTech and the Tello drone, but this time the Chinese industry leader has handled everything in-house. The S1 is designed to introduce a younger …

DJI is set to launch a new product on June 11. A mysterious video posted on the Chinese manufacturer’s Youtube channel – titled ‘Learn to Win’ -includes a series of clips of the new product from a number of angles. As you’d expect, it’s pretty hard to tell what exactly …

Since DJI launched their drone developer platform, the Manifold, at the end of 2015, both commercial drones and compute power have evolved.  Industrial applications for drones have expanded significantly, to include advanced operations in more remote and difficult to reach areas.  Computing power has expanded also, with artificial intelligence and …

Kespry has dominated the “vertical integration” solution for a long time, providing a seamlessly integrated industrial solution that let subject matter experts put a Kespry drone on the ground, step away from the aircraft, and do everything else from flight planning to launch through data processing on an iPad. It’s …