Drone

Source: Skydio California-based drone startup Skydio is flying high after receiving the 2021 Best of Innovation Award for Drones and Unmanned Systems at CES for the company’s Skydio X2. Given ahead of CES’s first-ever, all-digital expo on Jan. 11-14, the award is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in …

Keynote speaker on the first night of tech conference laid out possibilities that are opening up through the new broadband cellular standard. In the opening day keynote for the virtual CES conference, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg laid out how the communications giant expects 5G wireless connectivity to be a catalyst …

Former DJI Executive Romeo Durscher has joined open source platform Auterion as Vice President of Public Safety. Romeo Durscher brings his years of passion for using drones to save lives and improve communities to the Auterion team.  It’s a new start that brings value and satisfaction for both Durscher and …

Source: Autel Ahead of CES 2021, drone company Autel announced the release of the new Dragonfish flight platform for the second quarter of this year. A fixed-wing drone, Dragonfish offers a 120-minute flight time as well as takeoff/landing capabilities in space-restricted areas and an deployment assembly time of under three …

The U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday that it has relocated about 90 service members and an unspecified number of MQ-9 Reaper drones to Romania’s Campia Turzii Air Base. “The forward and ready positioning of our MQ-9s at this key strategic location reassures our allies and partners, while also sending a …

By Sgt. Bobby Yarbrough [Public domain] The market in military drones and sensors “will be one of the most dynamic growth sectors of the world aerospace industry this decade,” says the Teal Group‘s recent analysis. “Teal Group’s 2020/2021 market study estimates that UAV production will increase from current worldwide UAV …

An Apple patent for drone telecommunications technology was published last month.  Despite the fact that for several years our April Fool’s hoax kept hitting the top stories list, there is still no such thing as an Apple iDrone: but Apple could be looking for an opportunity to enter the drone …

AFTER THE Covid lockdown was announced last year and campuses were shut, 19-year-old Dewang Subil returned to his village in Kerala from Bengaluru. Four months ago, the computer science student with a passion for photography bought a battery-operated drone — he wanted to capture the best images. Last week, Dewang …

Researchers compared the moth antenna to an artificial sensor. They found that the moth antenna is more sensitive and reacted more quickly while flying through patchy odour plumes. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Researchers …

Dive Brief: The FAA has released final rules for drones regarding remote identification and flying over people, paving the way for more delivery drone operations, according to an agency press release.  The new FAA rules will require remote identification of drones and allow small drones to fly over people and …