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Source: Wingcopter UAV startup Wingcopter is flying high this week after being named one of nine winners of Germany’s top global hackathon to kick-start humanitarian drone delivery. The autonomous delivery drone manufacturer partnered with UNICEF and the African Drone and Data Academy to develop a concept to deploy humanitarian drone delivery …

Source: Flirtey UAV startup Flirtey announced the granting of a new drone delivery patent the company says will make the process safer and more precise. According to a press release, the drone-delivery patent “describes a combination of hardware and software that enables the delivery of packages by a drone, potentially …

Unmanned Leadership forum The first Unmanned Leadership Forum took place yesterday. Over a dozen unmanned experts spoke to a global audience of over 300 people about topics that included Covid 19, drone company financing, Chinese based air-frames and components, and FAA regulations.   In the absence of many of the …

We’ve all been missing the opportunity to meet colleagues and mentors in person – but the free, online Unmanned Leadership Forum is your chance to meet 14 industry leaders and ask your questions. Today  at 1 pm EST on Facebook live The Unmanned Leadership Forum will have a 2-hour live, …

Image Provided by the Centrum Search and rescue drones have been used for several years now, and are incredibly effective at finding missing persons.  Using thermal imagery, searches for missing persons can continue in the dark and under ever more challenging conditions. This new search and rescue drone solution covers …

Business is not as usual – but just how bad is the coronavirus effect on drone business?  In this DRONELIFE minute survey, we report what some DRONELIFE followers say. There are a lot of very significant drone business surveys, and a lot of very official forecasts for the drone industry.  The …

Pixabay License: Free for commercial use A Minnesota man faces criminal charges after a pilot reported a drone shooting as the aircraft flew over a meat-processing plant. The Watonwan County Sheriff’s Department charged Travis Duane Winters, 34, of Butterfield, Minn., with criminal damage to property and reckless discharge of a …

Source: WingtraOne Orthophoto survey drones are providing new insights to scientists tracking ice and water levels in Alaska. A research team led by Gabriel Wolken of the University of Alaska Fairbank’s Climate Adaptation Science Center has been measuring rising and falling ice and water levels in Suicide Basin glacial lake …

Source: DroneSense Public-safety drone software provider DroneSense and French UAV giant Parrot are soaring into a new corporate partnership. The agreement will marry Parrot’s ANAFI quadcopter with the full suite of DroneSense capabilities with a focus on the public-safety/first-responder drone market. The Texas startup’s platform is an out-of-the-box solution for …

File Autonomous inventory drones are changing the way businesses manage logistics and supply-chain metrics by optimizing aerial inventory scans. California-based FlytBase has launched a new innovation in this growing field with the FlytWare Solution Partner program. Deploying autonomous drones, the FlytWare solution replaces manual inventory cycle counts for large warehouse …