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Masonboro Inlet, NC – Source: Edward Orde – licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 A North Carolina EMS agency lost a $26,000 drone last week in a maritime crash during a training exercise. According to Port City Daily, a DJI Matrice 210 belonging to Pender EMS and Fire crashed into the …

Courtesy: Haotian Mai/USC-Viterbi Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science are developing AI drones able to “learn” from challenges in the field. Artem Molchanov, Tao Chen, Wolfgang Honig, James A. Preiss, Nora Ayanian and Gaurav Sukhatme authored a paper addressing how to train quadcopters to be …

Drones can be a critical tool for responding to natural disasters like wildfires or floods – but if not carefully coordinated they also risk interfering with manned aircraft working at the same scene.  To add to the confusion of a natural disaster, ground-based communications networks are often the first infrastructure …

Drones excel at taking over jobs that are dark, dirty and dangerous – and mapping the sewerage underground electricity tunnels that lie under a city certainly meet that description.  Now, a team from Indonesia has demonstrated that it a drone equipped with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be used to …

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 …

Source: Quaternium European startup Quaternium recently announced its experimental hybrid fuel-electric drone broke a world record for flight endurance. A press release states the HYBRiX 2.1 quadcopter completed a non-stop flight of 8 hours and 10 minutes at Quaternium headquarters in Valencia, Spain. “With this breakthrough, Quaternium set the new …

A group of amateur archaeologists have unearthed the mummified remains of 72 skeletons on the island of Gran Canaria with the help of a drone. Credit: Álvaro Ávila via WikiCommons Public Domain license Known informally as El Legado, the Spanish group set out to capture aerial footage of in the …

License: cc0 With a wide and global customer base, drone mapping platform DroneDeploy is continually identifying new uses for drone technology.  Precision agriculture was one of the early adopters of drone technology: and now, more vineyards are adopting drones to make better wine. It’s not the romantic view of the …

courtesy: Wingcopter Wingcopter is teaming up with Merck to pilot a drone-delivery program. In partnership with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, the German UAV startup and the Big Pharma giant will create a program to transport pigment samples from a Merck site in Gernsheim, Germany to a lab in …

Mireille Boutin, courtesy SIAM Don’t let your favorite student tell you that they’ll never use algebra again. Mathematicians have now used drones and mathematics to show that unmanned systems can “see” perfectly well without visual sensors – using sound.  It’s similar to how bats use echolocation to get around: in …