Drone

Manufacturing is key to achieving growth and expanding the manufacturing sector is often considered key to achieving inclusive and sustained development. For good reason, for over two centuries, industrialization in the West and, more recently, in East Asia has fostered rapid technological advancement and rising income levels. Among the widely …

MILL CREEK – Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) staff will fly drones over known locations of swan and goose flocks in Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom counties to assess the technology’s utility in surveying abundant waterfowl. Flights may take place from December 2023 through May 2024. WDFW staff with Federal Aviation Administration …

DroneAcharya Aerial Innovations Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with D.Y. Patil International University, Akurdi, Pune (“DYPIU”) for providing Drone centric courses like DGCA certified drone pilot training, drone building, drone data processing and GIS, Python coding and their industry – specific applications in Agriculture and Disaster Management. …

Tech giant DJI has added a brand-new product to its incredible civilian drones and innovative camera tech portfolio. The company has just rolled out DJI Power, a series of portable power banks that can rapidly charge the most commonly used electronic devices today such as mobile phones, digital cameras, laptops, …

555 The Washington State Department of Natural Resources received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to use unmanned aerial vehicles in monitoring wildfires that pose an urgent threat. “Use of a UAV can help get real-time information to firefighters on the ground,” said Peter Goldmark, commissioner of Public Lands, earlier …

555 Sometimes I spend days wondering what I’m going to write about for UAS Magazine and other times stories just fall into my lap. The feature story I just completed for the next issue of our print magazine and a story posted this week on our website are good examples …

Campaigners raised alarm bells today after the Ministry of Defence signed a £17 million contract with Silicon Valley defence tech startup Anduril.  Marketing itself as the “Lockheed Martin of the 21st century,” Anduril has already worked with the Home Office, rolling out AI watchtowers to identify migrants crossing in small boats.  …

KING 5 followed Snohomish County’s Emergency Management team as they fly drones to help prepare for emergencies. SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — High above the newly constructed Index-Galena Road, a 4 1/2-foot-long drone snaps pictures. The aircraft is mapping out the road for Snohomish County’s 911 system. “Once we got the …

Anduril Industries revealed, on December 1, its Roadrunner family of vertical takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial vehicles. The six foot-long Roadrunner is designed with a modular payload system facilitating reconfiguration for varying missions. The Group 3 drone uses twin thrust-vectored turbojet engines to reach what the California-based company calls “high subsonic” speeds …

Alone, in the middle of a parking lot, sat a lifeless drone. Officially known as a “small unmanned aircraft system,” the drone is the latest high-tech surveillance tool that the New Orleans Police Department plans to put to work.  Ironically, it sat in a lot near the NOPD Police Academy …