Drone

Subterranean at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0  A recent Michigan Court Ruling touches drone privacy: and could lead to major problems for the commercial drone industry. An article in JDSupra (worth a full read) explains how the decision developed and why it could have a significant impact on commercial drone operations …

The company was founded by Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey and staffed with former employees and executives of the big data surveillance company Palantir. Over the past several years, Anduril built a steady business providing border surveillance towers for the Department of Homeland Security. But the company is eying a much …

Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater flexibility to quickly zero in on areas of interest. (Credit: Elizabeth Holman/Caltech and Yuan-Sheng Fang/Berkeley Lab) Question: What do a roundworm, a Sharpie pen, and high-vacuum grease have in common? …

Founder and CEO Bill Reynolds of Leading Edge Associates, Inc. and Leading Edge Aerial Technologies has been working on mosquito control since he entered the industry with a college internship in 1985.  Now, he’s won an industry award for creative thinking and advancing public health efforts for his work in …

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Apr 01, 2021 (AB Digital via COMTEX) — The detailed market intelligence report on the Drone Delivery Service market applies the best of both primary and secondary research to weighs upon the competitive landscape and the prominent …

Zimbabwe will speed up the process of buying drones worth US$2 million to be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling, while plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at border posts. The country is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue as …

Source: Citadel Defense Counter-drone provider Citadel Defense just scored another contract with the U.S. defense department in what has become a string of awards from defense agencies worldwide. According to a Citadel press release, the startup garnered $5 million to protect soldiers from potentially hostile drones on the battlefield using its …

Connected Warrior JADC2 needs to be Pentagon’s ‘big bet,’ Flournoy says By Lauren C. Williams Mar 31, 2021 The Biden administration will have to make big bets on technology from autonomous systems to cyber if it wants to keep military edge in the coming decades, according to a former …

A new strategic partnership between Toyota Tshusho and Zipline in Japan will enable nation-scale, on-demand drone delivery of critical medical supplies. Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho) is one of Japan’s general trading companies and a member of the Toyota Group.  The partnership with Zipline in Japan will bring medical drone …

At last week’s “Let’s Talk Drones” chat room, the audience got to see an end-to-end Flytrex drone delivery: from the order, placed on a phone app, to the delivery of a hot Starbuck’s coffee drink at the Flytrex and Causey Aviation operations center in Fayetteville, NC.  The whole process was …