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Tech 19:21 GMT 30.01.2020(updated 19:22 GMT 30.01.2020) Get short URL The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has grounded its fleet of 810 drones over fears the fleet’s Chinese-made drones could leave sensitive information they handle vulnerable to hacking – a reversal of their previous vindication of the Chinese drones …

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 …

image courtesy Percepto A DRONELIFE Exlusive interview with Dor Abuhasira, Co-Founder and CEO of Percepto. Of all of the buzz words used in the drone industry in 2019, “automation” was one of the biggest.  Along with AI , drone companies touted automation in every aspect of drone use.  There are …

Vodafone Spain has claimed a global first after it deployed a commercial 5G network in the coastal resort of Benidorm to fly a drone in a real urban environment. The operator obtained the authorisation of Spain’s aviation safety agency (AESA) for the trial flights conducted in collaboration with the City …

Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) solutions are a fast growing sector in the drone industry right now – as evidenced by new funding for Airspace Link.  An announcement on TechCrunch says that the Detroit-based startup has just won an additional $4 million on top of initial seed funding to bring their …

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 …

A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that while the FAA has years of data on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) — commonly known as drones — it has not “fully leveraged” the data to advance UAS integration into the National Airspace System. The report also found that the …

 Nicholas Pongratz  Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 13:00 Hungary has important tasks in the field of drone transport and HungaroControl Hungarian Aviation Services Zrt. will play a big role in this, said Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics in Budapest on Thursday, according to origo.hu. At the annual gala of …

DroneUp has been making the news frequently recently, racking up government and enterprise clients.  DroneUp provides drone pilot services across the country: pilots are trained to a single high standard and use a sophisticated operating platform to ensure quality deliverables.  Now, DroneUp has been named an Unmanned Aircraft System Service …

For years, the drone industry has been weighed down by a minority of irresponsible pilots flying where and when they shouldn’t: disrupting firefighting efforts, getting way too close to manned aircraft, and even delivering contraband into prisons. If reports from Maine are to be believed, it seems we can add …