File photo One of America’s largest accountancy-auditing companies is helping a San Diego research hospital potentially save the lives of children via drone technology. Deloitte and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine are teaming up to explore drone delivery for medical samples from the hospital to the lab for genomic …
Read More »Aerodyne Acquires Measure’s Inspection Services Business
Measure’s inspection services business has been acquired by Asia Pacific company Aerodyne, forming a new joint venture entity – Aerodyne Measure – for drone services. Measure will continue to operate independently as an enterprise software provider: Measure CEO Brandan Declet Torres comments that the partnership will significantly expand the user …
Read More »Skywatch.AI Partners with Parazero: Drone Pilots Save Money …
Two players in the commercial drone space have just announced a partnership to help reduce insurance costs for commercial drone pilots. It’s a partnership that makes sense – an InsurTech platform that’s all about quantifying risks, and a developer of drone safety systems proven to significantly reduce those risks: these …
Read More »SimActive Adds New LiDAR Workflow Functionality
SimActive has just announced some additional functionality removes some of the manual processes currently needed to process softificated imagery. From their press release below: “Removing the need to manually tag GCPs facilitates the integration of LiDAR data with imagery”, said Dr Philippe Simard, President of SimActive. “Our clients can benefit …
Read More »Amazon unveils delivery drone, plans deliveries in ‘months’ …
Amazon unveils delivery drone, plans deliveries in ‘months’ Becker’s Hospital Review Amazon has unveiled its new autonomous drone, which the company said will begin making deliveries in months, according to Bloomberg. >> Osmo Pocket vs. Osmo Mobile 2: Which One Should You Buy? Source link Share Tweet Share Pin Email amazon …
Read More »University of Maryland Drone Delivers Kidney For Successful …
In a world-first flight and a significant step for human medicine, a University of Maryland drone has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center, before being successfully transplanted into a patient with kidney failure. It’s an exciting development in the use of drones to …
Read More »Three Forces That Shaped the Drone Industry in 2018
Guest post by leading drone industry analyst Colin Snow of Skylogic Research. This was a big year for the commercial drone industry as a whole. It saw a significant increase in the business adoption, the expansion of the FAA’s LAANC program (the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability that provides …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Team Delivering Vaccines to Vanuatu
Drones are going to be used to help deliver medical supplies including vaccines to the remote villages of Vanuatu. The just signed contract allows for the drones to be able to make two deliveries per day with the ability to fly up to 100 km and carry up to 2.5 …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: First Nation Tribe signs up for Drone D…
Drones are going to be used to help deliver medical supplies including vaccines to the remote villages of Vanuatu. The just signed contract allows for the drones to be able to make two deliveries per day with the ability to fly up to 100 km and carry up to 2.5 …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Agile Drones that Fold to get Through T…
Image: University of Zurich Compact and foldable, portable drones are great for carrying – but can the advantages of a folding drone be realized during flight? Researchers at the University of Zurich, with others, have come up with a drone that folds during flight to get through tight spaces. Davide …
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