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Have a story to tell about your use of drones or the technologies that make the applications better?  Commercial UAV Expo Americas and Commercial UAV Expo Europe just announce a call for speakers for their 2020 events.  Topics of interest include both vertical market segments (Agriculture,  Inspection, Mining, etc.) and/or  …

Courtesy: NBEC A collaboration between one of Britain’s major radar companies and a group of drone researchers is improving the nation’s unmanned aerial traffic systems. Radar specialist Aveillant partnered with the National Beyond Visual Line of Sight Experimentation Corridor in December to trial a unique holographic radar technology. The test …

Courtesy: DARPA In the future of urban warfare, swarms of autonomous drones and ground vehicles will win battles before they even begin. DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program recently tested a swarm of 250 unmanned vehicles in a mock city at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Mississippi. The …

Image courtesy: Nokia A Japanese city devastated by a tsunami nine years ago is teaming up with Nokia to save lives with a unique drone network. Sendai City tasked the telecommunications giant with developing a plan to deploy UAS to respond more effectively in the wake of earthquakes, tsunamis and …

Image courtesy: Empire Drone Company New York-based UAS firm Empire Drone Company has received a Part 137 certification from the FAA, paving the way for the company to launch crop-spraying missions. Crop-spraying via drone has emerged as a blossoming trend in precision agriculture over the last five years. Unmanned missions …

Courtesy: Henry Schein UPS is keeping the drone-delivery dream alive after announcing a partnership this week with a Fortune 500, medical-solutions distributor Henry Schein, Inc. will be testing several drone-delivery use cases with UPS Flight Forward to develop new models to transport medical supplies. “Healthcare and life science logistics are strategic …

File photo One of America’s largest accountancy-auditing companies is helping a San Diego research hospital potentially save the lives of children via drone technology. Deloitte and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine are teaming up to explore drone delivery for medical samples from the hospital to the lab for genomic …

Courtesy: Draganfly Two Canadian drone companies are celebrating the new year by merging in a multi-million-dollar deal. Saskatchewan-based Draganfly is acquiring Dronelogics in a agreement that includes a $1.5 million payout to the Vancouver-based company’s shareholders Dronelogics is known as a “solutions integrator for custom robotics, hardware and software that …

Public-safety drone consultancy Skyfire Consulting has announced a partnership with UAV company Doosan Mobility Innovation and hydrogen-fuel service provider ReadyH2 to tackle a pipeline-inspection project for an unnamed American company. Doosan will deploy a hydrogen-powered octocopter and use ReadyH2’s on-Public-safety drone consultancy Skyfire Consulting has announced a partnership with UAV company Doosan Mobility …

Courtesy of Liteye Colorado counter-drone firm Liteye Systems has won a $10 million contract to deliver its Anti-UAS Defense Systems (AUDS) to an unnamed U.S. government agency. The contract is the latest of several deliveries of the systems  to the U.S. military and other agencies spanning the last three years …