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A verified DJI pilot may have leaked photos of DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 drone. Tech Radar reports Twitter user @OsitaLV posted five photos which industry experts say could be the company’s planned mid-range drone. The model is rumored to be released in April. Osita’s profile lists him as a “verified …

Researchers from Edinburgh University are using drones to study and demarcate global warming, and to determine how it is affecting glaciers in the Andes, a recent BBC article reports. DRONELIFE reached out to the makers of the drones to learn more about the project – but first, the research. Researches from …

Image Provided by Ware The drone industry excels at addressing expensive and slow processes that can be dramatically improved with aerial assets.  One San Francisco startup has identified a major need in a $1.9 trillion industry, and they’re solving it with a combination of easily available commercial hardware and their …

The new strain of coronavirus is our current natural disaster, and drones and other new technology are being used to respond. As Covid-19’s first site of attack, China has led the battle against the Coronavirus, and it has turned to technology as a tool to help stop the spread of …

Masonboro Inlet, NC – Source: Edward Orde – licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 A North Carolina EMS agency lost a $26,000 drone last week in a maritime crash during a training exercise. According to Port City Daily, a DJI Matrice 210 belonging to Pender EMS and Fire crashed into the …

Courtesy: Haotian Mai/USC-Viterbi Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science are developing AI drones able to “learn” from challenges in the field. Artem Molchanov, Tao Chen, Wolfgang Honig, James A. Preiss, Nora Ayanian and Gaurav Sukhatme authored a paper addressing how to train quadcopters to be …

Drones can be a critical tool for responding to natural disasters like wildfires or floods – but if not carefully coordinated they also risk interfering with manned aircraft working at the same scene.  To add to the confusion of a natural disaster, ground-based communications networks are often the first infrastructure …

Drones excel at taking over jobs that are dark, dirty and dangerous – and mapping the sewerage underground electricity tunnels that lie under a city certainly meet that description.  Now, a team from Indonesia has demonstrated that it a drone equipped with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be used to …

Source: Quaternium European startup Quaternium recently announced its experimental hybrid fuel-electric drone broke a world record for flight endurance. A press release states the HYBRiX 2.1 quadcopter completed a non-stop flight of 8 hours and 10 minutes at Quaternium headquarters in Valencia, Spain. “With this breakthrough, Quaternium set the new …

A group of amateur archaeologists have unearthed the mummified remains of 72 skeletons on the island of Gran Canaria with the help of a drone. Credit: Álvaro Ávila via WikiCommons Public Domain license Known informally as El Legado, the Spanish group set out to capture aerial footage of in the …