Drone

DJI’s latest drone has arrived. As we revealed earlier this week, it’s called the Mavic Mini. As the name suggests, the Mavic Mini is tiny. It weighs just 249 grams and has very deliberately been designed to squeeze under the registration weight threshold put in place by aviation bodies around …

The United States Interior Department is grounding its fleet of more than 800 drones over concerns that the Chinese is using the devices to spy or facilitate cyberattacks, according to the Wall Street Journal. There have been growing concerns among military and Homeland Security officials that the UAVs, which are …

At Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas yesterday, a panel of journalists – including yours truly – had the opportunity to hear 15 drone companies pitch their product in only 2 minutes.  Two minutes means that presenters have to get to the heart of their value proposition – fast.  Every …

Come next summer, the most remarkable thing about your home-delivered late-night California burrito won’t be the French fries inside. It’ll be that the San Diego speciality made part of its journey by drone, as part of a scheme to pull Uber’s food-delivery business financials out of a nosedive. At Forbes’ …

image: public domain In response to concerns about “malicious drone activity” the FAA has announced new airspace restrictions over 60 facilities – most of them federal prisons.  Reports of attempts to make deliveries to prisoners or otherwise interfere with federal prison operation with drones have increased: earlier this year, a …

Image copyright US DoI Image caption The department manages US natural resources and oversees federal land More than 800 drones have been grounded by the US Department of the Interior (DoI) over concerns they could be used to aid Chinese spying. All the grounded drones were made in China or …

At Commercial UAV Expo ths morning, a panel of drone visionaries took the stage to answer critical questions about the drone industry today: including what’s happening with standards for UTM and Remote ID; how 5G will help the industry scale; and what new industries the largest manufacturer in the world …

YEPPOON-based fisheries officers will have access to drones as a weapon to combat illegal fishing activity despite initial reports indicating they had been excluded from the technology roll-out. Over the weekend it was reported in some media that drones had been deployed to the Gold Coast, Warwick, Noosa, Hervey Bay, …

Israeli drone company Flytrex has partnered with the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) to validate the company’s parachute on its package delivery UAVs at NUAIR’s New York UAS Test Site in Rome, N.Y. Flytrex provides autonomous drone delivery systems that enable clients to integrate on-demand autonomous drone delivery. The second …

Image public domain For several months, headlines have hinted that the U.S. Congress was considering banning Chinese-manufactured drones for use by the military.  Today, they got more definite: many news outlets indicated that the ban was all but signed into law.  Here’s what’s really going on behind the headlines: and …