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The five winners of the second annual XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award have been announced at AUVSI XPONENTIAL.  The award was once again sponsored by DJI.  Image courtesy of Zipline More of our AUVSI Coverage: Drones for Good: The Winners The 2019 AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award was dedicated to celebrating drone operations …

British drone firm RelmaTech will be taking part in a NASA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) program in Nevada to test drone deployment over urban areas. Image: NASA According to a company press release, the company was invited by both NASA and the state of Nevada to conduct “UTM …

NASA drone projects and their acronyms are starting to look like a language of their own – but the agency is moving forward steadily on projects to integrate drones into the airspace for everything from drone taxis to delivery drones. Today, NASA and California-based NextNav annouced that NASA will use …

Tomorrow, May 5 is International Drone Day, and together with that occasion main AI-enabled airspace consciousness and intelligence agency Fortem Technologies launched its client survey findings, revealing public opinion of a future with drone know-how. Public opinion is a vital subject for the business.  Here within the U.S., dialogue over …

Drones are all over the place – floating over farm fields, diving into catastrophe scenes, exploring a probably life-harboring moon of Saturn (file scratch!). Wait. What?  No, you’re not struggling a post-holiday meals hangover – NASA might very nicely ship a drone to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Last week, the …

A drone piloted by NASA’s synthetic intelligence has taken on a DRL FPV pilot, with fascinating outcomes.  If futurists are to be believed, most of our jobs are below risk from the rise of robotics, synthetic intelligence and automation. The ironic factor is that a few of the first to …

The first complete eclipse in 38 years will happen on August 21st, and drone operators are preparing.  While the eclipse affords a singular alternative for some lovely pictures, it’s vital that the drone group fly safely and in accordance with federal and native laws.  To assist all of the operators …

JEM Internal Ball Camera taking a video（Credit：JAXA/NASA） What might be one of many cutest drones in existence is doing a critical job, taking photos and movies on the International Space Station (ISS.) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has launched photographs and video taken by the JEM Internal Ball Camera (the …

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialised company of the United Nations, introduced a Request for Information (RFI) on UTM: site visitors administration methods for unmanned plane methods (UAS). The announcement was made to attendees on the AUVSI Xponential 2017 convention.  The company is “soliciting proposals for a global …

NASA’s Langley Research Center is providing a free informational webinar on its  autonomous crash administration system for small UAVs that permits touchdown a malfunctioning unit to a secure and clear ditch website. The webinar will happen on July 25th @ 2PM (EDT). The mission of the system, known as Safe2Ditch, …