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New Jersey-based Everest Insurance is partnering with drone-analytics supplier Airware to enhance claims changes. The settlement will enable Everest to optimize and expedite claims throughout hurricane season by way of aerial knowledge investigation. Airware integrates the {hardware}, software program and cloud storage capabilities to combine aerial knowledge assortment. “This agreement builds …

Army drones are headed to fundamental coaching – however this time, UAV tech will likely be doing the coaching. The Army’s 316 Cavalry Brigade lower the ribbon on a brand new drone coaching facility final week to supply more room and performance to its UAS training program. Fittingly, a soldier-piloted …

Photography specialists PolarPro have put collectively a fast tutorial for drone pilots who need to have a go at taking pictures a hyperlapse. If you’re unaware of the time period, it’s primarily the identical as a timelapse however with a broader vary of movement. With a timelapse, the digital camera …

In the previous couple of years drone racing has taken off. Pilots that have been flying for enjoyable on makeshift tracks of their spare time are instantly travelling the world on skilled contracts. Racing organizations like DRL are signing multimillion-dollar sponsorship offers with a few of the largest names in …

Facebook has quietly introduced that it’s going to now not be persevering with with its Aquila venture, an enormous drone designed to fly at excessive altitude and beam down web connectivity to distant areas. In a weblog submit written by director of engineering Yael Maguire, the corporate admitted that rising competitors …

Aerospace big Boeing has right now introduced an funding – through Boeing HorizonX Ventures – in Matternet. The Menlo Park startup has made notable progress pioneering drone deliveries in city environments, and it seems to be as if Boeing needs a bit of the pie. Matternet’s expertise is an finish to finish drone supply …

San Francisco-based drone mapping platform DroneDeploy simply scored one other $25 million in funding.  Here’s why that’s not shocking. This week I had a dialog with an funding banker, who talked about casually that the VC urge for food for drone firms had diminished in the final yr.  With the …

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. …

French drone supplier Delair has introduced a gross sales settlement with Cansel, a Canadian supplier of surveying and mapping options. The deal directs gross sales of Delair’s UX 11 long-range drone, with plans to incorporate the corporate’s full product line. The settlement additionally means Delair fixed-wing drones are actually licensed as …

The rollout of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) beta take a look at is constant, with the Western South Region – together with airports in California and Hawaii – on June 21. The LAANC program fixes a significant downside for drone operators, who’ve struggled with lengthy delays …