In the continuing race for the major UTM providers to establish relationships with existing legacy based installed air traffic control systems, NAV CANADA and Unifly have just signed an agreement for Unifly to develop, train and implement an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system that will be integrated into the …
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Image from Commercial Drone.FM Ian Smith of Commercial Drones FM speaks with Dr. Ernest Earon about REIN and their first product DroneInsurance , a great example of how technology and AI are used to better serve insurance needs in the drone marketplace. In this roughly 28 minute podcast, Ian speaks to …
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Lake Kivu Challenge: Courtesy African Drone Forum The African Drone Forum (ADF) officially kicked off today in Kigali, Rwanda, and drone businesses from around the world were there to demonstrate their technology to heigh level African stakeholders. (Livestream the ADF events here.) Africa represents a huge opportunity: both for communities …
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Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas today. At one of the largest technology shows in the world, Bastian – named by Fortne magazine one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2018 – explained how the 94 year old company is …
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Their website provides a brief history of CES: “The first CES kicked off in 1967, with 250 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees in New York City. Since then, CES has grown by more than 10-fold and now encompasses both traditional and non-traditional tech industries.” As the world’s leading drone manufacturer and …
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Part 2 of a 2 Part Series on innovative drone delivery and software company Aha. See Part 1 here, to read about how small retailers are taking on delivery giants like Amazon. Maron Kristófersson is the CEO of Aha, a company that both provides a delivery service utilizing drones in Iceland; and …
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In English, a paradigm shift or major new idea may be referred to as an “Aha” moment: so the name of this innovative urban delivery service is appropriate in multiple languages. At last month’s Commercial UAV Show in London, we met Maron Kristofersson, CEO and Founder of Aha.is, a drone …
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Image: NASA In what appears to be a part of the GE Aviation coming out party for drones at AUVSI in Chicago this week, Boston based AiRXOS, part of GE Aviation, announced a series of autonomous solutions for commercial applications in the UTM space. This is one of a series …
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Continuing our roundup of European companies we met at this week at the Commercial UAV Expo Europe is this interview with Ivanka Koster, CEO of Netherlands-based SkyTools. SkyTools is a full-service drone company: but their unique business model addresses the issue of outside service providers competing with the growth of …
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From the distance comes a high-pitched whining. It sounds horrible, like a giant mosquito. Or maybe a herd of angry mice screaming in a wind tunnel. It is in fact a flying burrito. And it’s flying courtesy of Wing’s ambitious drone delivery program. That’s right: Google/Alphabet’ Project Wing has been …
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