Drone

The public service sector is one of the fastest growing verticals for the commercial drone industry.  As departments invest in drone technology – and train more and more of their personnel to use them – the use cases for drones are continually expanding.  At today’s public service sector sessions of …

image courtesy Cape. The following is a guest post by Chris Rittler, CEO of Cape, cloud platform for drone telepresence and data management. College graduation is just around the corner, which means thousands of young, tech-savvy graduates will soon enter the workforce. As new graduates search for careers, several will be …

Commercial UAV Expo has established itself as one of the drone industry’s major events, and Commercial UAV Expo Europe – taking place this week in beautiful Amsterdam – is a premier event for the commercial drone industry in Europe.  This morning, the team announced that the 2020 show will be …

Known as Project Wing, and operated by Google parent Alphabet, food, medicine and more will be delivered to suburbia in airborne style. Project Wing is an ongoing initiative which has been in operation for about 4 years. The suburban deliveries are tied to partnership agreements with local businesses and can …

The Commercial UAV Expo Europe is taking place this week in Amsterdam.  In addition to being an important market for the commercial drone industry, Europe is at the center of drone regulations.   European regulators have made significant progress in creating a framework that will apply across member states, and …

image courtesy SimActive Three drone industry leaders have joined forces for shoreline mapping on France’s Pink Granite Coast as part of a conservation project.  Altimedias, a drone data collection and processing firm, is using the senseFly eBee combined with mapping software SimActive to create 3D textured models of the sensational …

In case you didn’t know, the FAA is seeking public input as it weighs up rule change proposals which could enable more advanced operations, including routine drone flights over people and at night. As well as enabling safe flights over people and at night, the FAA is exploring how to …

HOUSTON – Drones have become part of the fabric of our technology-driven society. More and more people are getting their licenses to fly the devices to capture oftentimes amazing pictures from amazing angles. But what about when they fly into your backyard at 1:30 in the morning? “I heard a …

Michael Mazur, Consulting Partner and head of PwC Drone Powered Solutions delivered one of the Keynote addresses at the Commercial UAV Expo Europe today in Amsterdam, naming 7 trends that the investment firm sees shaping the industry. 1) Telecom will be a major beneficiary of the drone industry. Mazur says …

Updated April 09, 2019 11:46:26 Photo: One of the drones participating in the fast food delivery trial in Canberra in March this year. (ABC News: Jake Evans) It’s official: Google will open its world-first drone delivery business in Canberra’s north, now that the aviation authority has given formal approval to …