Drone News

The Australian based Telecommunications giant Telstra is trialing new drone technologies to help in disaster management scenarios. If you are not familiar with them,  Telstra currently has over 35,000 employees and does business in over 15 countries.  Telstra now joins a number of telecommunications companies including Verizon that are getting …

Global Energy Transmission (“GET”),  a US corporation with its development center in Russia has announced an inductive charging system that charges drone batteries in flight. The goal is to allow electric powered drones to extend the amount of time in the air,  on a theoretical level up to a very …

Anyone who has kids,  (ok maybe I have played a few games myself), knows that point and shoot video games can be fun.  In the video below,  Chinese drone company SZMID (“Beijing Shen Zhou Ming Da High-Tech Co., Ltd.”) shows off it drone jamming gun. The video below illustrates how …

A French-based drone provider just piloted its way into a lucrative funding round with the world’s largest processor giant. Commercial drone solution provider Delair closed an expanded investment deal with Intel Capital, following a year of collaboration on the Intel Insight Platform. The cloud-based, digital-asset management system will allow Intel to …

Golf balls raining from above is not normally par for the course at the annual Rotary Golf Tournament in Littleton, Colo. – until now. Last week, drone company Multicopter Warehouse deployed a DJI Matrice 600 Hexacopter to drop 150 golf balls at the start of the charity event. The numbered …

As companies are working to integrate Drones into the US commercial airspace,  Drone delivery company Flirtey has moved this forward by conducting its first drone flights in Reno, Nevada, as part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Unmanned (FAA) Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program on September 12.  It is one of …

“Drone Pioneer Award” (DPA) is  a German based non-profit that helps to bring small unknown drone projects to the surface by providing support and a 5,000 Euro award for the project selected with the goal of making the world a better place using drones.  Applications are accepted until September 15th. …

An Australian company has developed a powerful solution to provide drones with a better view from above. Sentient Vision Systems has launched a miniaturized drone-sensor system known as Kestrel that optimizes autonomous object-detection especially designed for security and military use. According to a company press release, the scalable system integrates …

A Colorado-based firm is shedding new light from above on vital data for the oil and gas pipeline industry. SolSpec has developed an online asset management tool that allows users to visualize and extract information specific to pipeline construction and operations. The drone system has already mapped 3,000 miles of …

Industry studies suggest the drone mitigation (or anti-drone) market will to grow to a billion-dollar industry within six years with predicted compound annual growth rate of 23.89 percent across 2018-22. For two counter-drone firms, recent good news stakes their claims to a piece of that fiscal pie. DroneShield Australian-based DroneShield …