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Last week I met in London with Pascal Perrin, Parrot’s Head of Global Consumer Product Marketing, and the French firm’s International PR Manager, Fabien Laxague. They have been on the town to demo Parrot’s newest drone: the 4K-shooting, insect-inspired ANAFI. I arrived with a lot of questions and an open thoughts. …

News and Commentary.  Michael Huerta’s 7 years with the FAA ended this Saturday at midnight.  Yesterday, Dan Elwell, the FAA’s Deputy Administrator, was named Acting Administrator.  If invited to fill the put up completely, Elwell will begin a 5 yr time period able that many Americans have by no means …

By Cargyrak (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ] 2017 was an enormous yr for drones: the trade noticed unprecedented development, progress in rules, and new makes use of and applied sciences virtually each week.  With 2018 upon us, DRONELIFE requested three trade thought leaders for his or her predictions about …

A visitor submit by Part 107 Pilot and author Kara Murphy. Year after 12 months, vital enhancements in drone expertise make them extra accessible to creators in any respect talent ranges. Photographers and filmmakers that started off working from ground-level, or chartered helicopters for aerials pictures, are more and more …

IntelligentUAS It’s that point of 12 months once more – time to evaluation what you possibly can (and can’t) do with a drone for Thanksgiving dinner prep.   That’s proper, there are YouTube movies on the best way to hunt a turkey, prepare dinner a turkey, and even make mashed …

One factor that everybody can agree upon is that there’s been so much occurring within the drone trade in the previous few weeks.  One of the massive information items has been the introduction of the LAANC (Low Altitude Airspace Notification Capability) system in a restricted kind.  The LAANC system might …

There’s a lot of hype about AI within the drone business.  Applications labeled “AI” provide a vast number of evaluation and sense-and-avoid capabilities.  But Boston-based Neurala offers drones (or automobiles, cameras, and toys) with one thing extra vital than these functions: a mind. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine studying are …

Dronelife understands that DJI has agreed to pay out a mixed complete in extra of $30,000 to a number of safety researchers as half of its Bug Bounty program. No cash has but been paid out, however a number of researchers have confirmed their bug experiences have been profitable and that …

By EspartacoPalma (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ] State and Local drone legal guidelines have turn into much more difficult in latest months.  With problems with FAA preemption in query, states are proposing drone rules at a frequently growing price.  Current proposals in Congress which might shield states’ rights to legislate …

The drone trade continues to be within the early levels of progress, nevertheless it appears to have progressed previous the very first section of bleeding edge expertise and to be transferring – quickly – in direction of confirmed answer.  As enterprises ramp up adoption of drone expertise, drone producers who began promoting …