Drone

(photo by Beth Wynn / © Mississippi State University) Mississippi State University is flying high for two reasons. 1 . The men’s basketball team is looking to make a tough showing tonight against the SEC-leading Tennessee Vols.* 2. The school’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory has acquired two TigerShark XP3 drones. …

We often think of drone deliveries as being most useful in remote, hard-to-reach locations. Usually, that involves providing a cargo-carrying alternative in rural areas or a link to places cut off by natural disasters. But ‘hard-to-reach’ can also apply in some of the world’s busiest ports. A drone delivery project with …

image courtesy Dedrone Counter drone technology firm Dedrone recently completed a nine month study on the subject of drones over correctional facilities.  The results are frightening – and demonstrate exactly why the industry needs counter drone technology to be implemented over prisons and other sensitive facilities. If you really want …

FAA compliant platform makes drones trackable and accountable with black box flight recorder, software and services for pilots, regulators and insurance companies Humacao. Puerto Rico (PRWEB) – Red Cat, a leading provider of distributed data storage, analytics and services for the drone industry, today announced the beta release of its …

image licensed by CC2.0 You could see this coming, and now it’s an official announcement.  AirMap has partnered with drone detection technology provider Fortem Technologies to provide a solution that will allow cities to detect all drones in the air, both cooperative and non-cooperative.  These will be shared with the …

While many whitepapers are good only as a substitute for Sominex, Kittyhawk has written one well worth reading carefully. “Remote ID & Drones” (download for free here) takes views from all over the industry to unpack the hot topic of remote ID for commercial drone users, explaining both what it is …

Amid severe labor shortages, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to perform human tasks is sure to grow, and DJI, the world’s biggest drone-maker, is ready to respond, the firm’s Japan head said. Drones for industrial uses ranging from agriculture to infrastructure maintenance and security are becoming more popular, said …

Unmanned Systems DARPA trying to make autonomous systems more trustworthy By Susan Miller Feb 25, 2019 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants autonomous systems to be able to evaluate how well they’re doing a specific task and explain that to their human partners. In a broad agency announcement …

In the US,  for college basketball fans, “March Madness,” is a big part of the year.  “March Madness” is when the top 68 college basketball team in the US meet in the NCAA basketball tournament to determine bragging rights for the top college basketball team in America. This is a …

On Wednesday, America’s Federal Aviation Administration joined the rest of the world and grounded the Boeing 737 MAX 8, the airplane involved in a deadly crash in Ethiopia on Sunday, and another in Indonesia five months ago. New data and evidence led the agency to reverse course, the FAA said …