Reprinted with Permission from Fortune Business Insights The market for small drones is projected to reach $22.55 billion by the end of 2026, according to a report recently released by Fortune Business Insights. In a paid analysis study titled “Small Drones Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, by Type (Fixed-Wing, Rotary-Wing, …
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A verified DJI pilot may have leaked photos of DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 drone. Tech Radar reports Twitter user @OsitaLV posted five photos which industry experts say could be the company’s planned mid-range drone. The model is rumored to be released in April. Osita’s profile lists him as a “verified …
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Researchers from Edinburgh University are using drones to study and demarcate global warming, and to determine how it is affecting glaciers in the Andes, a recent BBC article reports. DRONELIFE reached out to the makers of the drones to learn more about the project – but first, the research. Researches from …
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Image Provided by Ware The drone industry excels at addressing expensive and slow processes that can be dramatically improved with aerial assets. One San Francisco startup has identified a major need in a $1.9 trillion industry, and they’re solving it with a combination of easily available commercial hardware and their …
Read More »Ocean Winds Toss Low-battery Drone into the Sea
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 …
Read More »Research Project Toughens Up Autonomous Drones
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 …
Read More »Drone Company Ware Introduces Inventory Management to Suppor…
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 …
Read More »Spanish Startup Says Its Drone Set a Flight Endurance Record
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 …
Read More »A Drone Helped Unearth Ancient Skeletons on Gran Canaria
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 …
Read More »Wingcopter to Fly Deliveries for Merck
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 …
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