Drone

A Chinese drone firm is teaming up with an Australian rescue group to launch an aerial shark-detection pressure over the western coast Down Under. JTT Technology introduced a partnership with Surf Life Saving WA, a Western Australia, non-profit rescue group. The program would deploy the JTT T60 industrial hexacopter to watch …

By Torrey Wiley CC BY 2.zero  A controversial drone invoice is being thought of within the Oklahoma Senate, with native advocates crying foul at media headlines that describe the invoice as a “shoot down” invoice whereas the drone trade worries that’s precisely the impact the legislation would have. The Senate …

This 12 months’s New York City Drone Film Festival noticed proficient aerial photographers from everywhere in the world enter their greatest work in an effort to win prestigious awards in one in every of eleven classes. As you may think, the successful lineup is an eclectic combination, together with all …

Airblock, a modular, programmable drone from Chinese robotics startup Makeblock, was honored with a Red Dot Award for Product Design. Makeblock made the announcement at CeBIT, a excessive tech convention in Germany that highlights developments in synthetic intelligence, robotics, and digital actuality. Makeblock is a STEM training and DIY robotics …

New Canadian rules concerning leisure drone use are drawing ire from UAV entusiasts. Canada lately enacted new drone rules. The new rules that apply to leisure use and had been introduced by Marc Garneau, Canada’s Minister of Transport, embrace however usually are not restricted to the next: Users should mark …

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com U.S. Marines are, for the primary time, deploying to Syria (with extra to return). There’s discuss of an “enduring” U.S. navy presence in Iraq, whereas extra U.S. troops are being dispatched to neighboring Kuwait with an eye fixed to the wars in each Iraq and Syria.  Yemen …

It is unimaginable to see how a lot the New York City Drone Film Festival has grown since final yr. In 2016, the #NYCDFF acquired 355 submissions from 45 totally different international locations. This yr, it acquired over four,000. We can solely think about what subsequent yr might be like… Some …

The southwest area of Virginia is going through a possible financial cave-in and the drone could save the day. The poverty-stricken space is operating out of financial gasoline as the world coal dries up, sucking thousands and thousands of and jobs from the Virginia economic system In the city of …

“Build Something That Matters,” says the 2017 Hackaday Competition Summary.  And whereas the prize might go to one thing actually altering the world, entries to this point fluctuate broadly between the helpful and the – form of, in a bizarre method (sure, we’re speaking about you, “Buttwand“) – entertaining. Hackaday.io …

There are loads of ways in which drones are getting used past purely industrial operations. Some of them are even performing some good to the planet. Here are 5 methods drones are saving the surroundings. Renewable Energy Inspections: Solar Farms While loads of folks in the trade find out about …