Since Parrot announced the ANAFI USA drone earlier this year, the French drone manufacturer has formed a slew of strategic partnerships with major and minor drone companies in the U.S. Today, Parrot and Skyward, a Verizon Company, a leading enterprise drone solution provider, announced a partnership that will provide a …
Read More »Drones for Telecom Pix4D and SAP Collaborate
Drones for telecom are already an important industry segment, and new applications to serve the telecom sector are rapidly appearing. Now, photogrammetry software solution leader Pix4D has partnered with SAP® “to open up the market for drone-based, digital 3D inspections for telecommunications companies,” says a Pix4D press release. “SAP, a global …
Read More »Sky Drone Flies the 5G Sky with Hong Kong Telecom
Source: Sky Drone UAV-tech firm Sky Drone is taking flight with Hong Kong-based China Mobile HK to navigate the sky path from 4G to 5G. Under the agreement, CMHK and Sky Drone will promote 5G drone solutions to government agencies and large corporations seeking autonomous UAV systems. Solutions will include infrastructure …
Read More »Citadel Defense Gets $12.2M Contract for Anti-Drone Tech
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Read More »Walmart Drone Delivery: New Partnership with Zipline
Image: Zipline Walmart drone delivery programs advanced today with the announcement that the retail giant has partnered with drone delivery heroes Zipline. Zipline operates the world’s largest – and first broadly implemented – drone delivery network. Zipline has been operating medical delivery services in Rwanda and around the world. They’ve …
Read More »Skydio X2D is the Ultimate Tool for the Armed Forces
Skydio‘s next level autonomy has been making waves in the drone industry since the CA-based company introduced their first aircraft in 2018, the culmination of development that began with the founders’ graduate work at MIT. The Skydio Autonomy™ engine and deep learning algorithms that allow Skydio aircraft to avoid …
Read More »FAA Launches Web Drone Content in Spanish
FAA lanza contenido Web Drone Source: FAA Press Release The Federal Aviation Administration has launched a pilot program to translate into Spanish select web content for users of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS commonly referred to as drones). The program is expected to reach the nearly 25.6 million people living in the United States with Limited English …
Read More »Researchers Develop a Drone That Flaps Its Wings Like a Swif…
Source: University of South Australia When we think about a drone, we think about raptor wings cutting across blue skies or dragonfly rotors buzzing high over a cityscape. But flapping? Like a cardinal? Or a crane? What a bird-brain concept … or is it? According to a research team from …
Read More »England and Wales captured in a set of stunning drone photos…
He made aircraft wings – now he’s hoping to be a high-flying professional drone photographer. Matthew Perks, from Bristol, used to build wings for hi-tech aircraft component manufacturer GKN Aerospace, but over the past three years discovered a love for drone photography. And that he has a knack for it …
Read More »ITBP’s extra high-tech proposal for UAVs, radars, LORROS set…
New Delhi: The Centre is all set to approve the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) proposal for acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), advanced long-range reconnaissance and observation systems (LORROS), radars, all-terrain vehicles and snow scooters for the newly sanctioned border outposts (BOPs) along the border with China. ITBP is responsible for …
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