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Drink Droning Outlawed in Japan

Japanese politicians have taken steps to enforce a more responsible culture among drone pilots with a blanket ban on droning under the influence of alcohol. New laws passed this week will see pilots caught drunk behind the controls facing up to a year in prison. Drunk pilots flying a drone that …

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A look at DARPA’s subterranean, autonomous systems — Defens…

Unmanned Systems A look at DARPA’s subterranean, autonomous systems The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Subterranean or SubT Challenge asked participants to use autonomous systems to quickly map, navigate and search underground environments such as human-made tunnel systems, underground mass transit and municipal infrastructure and naturally occurring cave networks. Timothy …

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Terra Drone Elevates Presences in Global UAV Market

June is shaping up to take high flight for Japanese drone provider Terra Drone Corporation. Yesterday, the company’s European office announced an agreement to provide UAV services to the UK’s national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey. The contract includes services from orthomosaics to digital terrain models (DTM) and digital surface models. Terra …

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