Drone

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 …

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 …

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 …

EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — The FAA’s proposed rules for integrating drones into the National Airspace System “is an overreaching answer and threatens traditional pathways into manned aviation,” according to the Experimental Aircraft Association. As part of its official comments submitted on March 2, 2020, to the FAA’s Notice of Proposed …

The advancement of the U.S. drone industry hinges on identifying and tracking drones flying in the airspace, a concept known as remote identification. While mandatory remote ID regulations will take years to finalize and implement, the Federal Aviation Administration can take steps in the interim to incentivize voluntary remote ID …

License: cc0 With a wide and global customer base, drone mapping platform DroneDeploy is continually identifying new uses for drone technology.  Precision agriculture was one of the early adopters of drone technology: and now, more vineyards are adopting drones to make better wine. It’s not the romantic view of the …

US airlines have enacted a range of other measures, stopping onboard sorting of trash for recycling (so flight attendants don’t have to touch used items), switching to disposable cups for business and first-class passengers, and eliminating “water walks” unless flight attendants can hand out individual bottles of water. Delta is …

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 …

Mireille Boutin, courtesy SIAM Don’t let your favorite student tell you that they’ll never use algebra again. Mathematicians have now used drones and mathematics to show that unmanned systems can “see” perfectly well without visual sensors – using sound.  It’s similar to how bats use echolocation to get around: in …

courtesy: AIRT A Texas drone-safety group is teaming up with the Airborne Incident Response Team to respond more effectively to emergencies. The non-profit Public Safety Unmanned Response Team North Texas signed the agreement of cooperation with AIRT this past week. AIRT is the non-profit parent of DRONERESPONDERS, a group billed as …