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Swiss firm Flyability has a really distinctive providing – a collision tolerant drone succesful of inspecting darkish, harmful indoor areas like mine shafts, field girders, or nuclear tanks.  Now Flyability’s flagship product Elios might be extra simply accessible to the U.S. market, as the firm declares a partnership with Exelon, …

Enterprise drone operations software program specialist Kittyhawk has introduced a collaboration with Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary. The pair will start working in the direction of providing digital airspace authorization immediately from the FAA by way of the Kittyhawk platform. Kittyhawk and Jeppesen are aiming for approval from the FAA to …

A significant American drone platform supplier is able to boldly go the place few drones have gone earlier than. North Carolina-based PrecisionHawk launched a report right this moment that can mark a brand new period in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS). The report, gathered and analyzed by PrecisionHawk and printed …

Our buddies at Ocean Alliance have been pioneering the usage of drones for marine analysis for fairly a while. But till very just lately, these drones had been primarily off-the-shelf quadcopters, modified to be flying Petri dishes able to gathering whale snot with out disturbing the animals. These flying ‘SnotBots’ …

French drone producer Parrot is launching a brand new product in June, in accordance with a countdown on the corporate’s web site. All we all know thus far is ‘Il Arrive’: It’s coming. It’s been some time since we’ve had a brand new drone to look ahead to from Parrot. …

DJI and the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) have for 2 years been collaborating to see how drone know-how can be utilized by public security organizations. Today they introduced an growth of that partnership and celebrated a profitable drone-assisted rescue mission in Iceland. EENA is a Brussels-based NGO devoted to …

A France-based drone supplier simply launched a brand new fixed-wing drone that gives a mixture of hardware and software program improvements match for survey-grade mapping and different industrial missions. Last week, Delair introduced the world availability of the UX11 fixed-wing UAV following a spherical of ultimate assessments. The drone might …

The Drone Racing League (DRL) has introduced additional growth plans that embody a brand new media partnership, a brand new race venue and additional assist from title sponsor Allianz. The new race will happen on Saturday, June 16, on the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France. The French theme continues with …

Belgian drone firm Unifly has introduced the appointment of three main gamers to the agency’s advisory board. Former FAA Director of Airspace Management John Walker is Senior Partner on the Padina Group; whereas Jules Kneepkens, advisor to the CAA of Qatar, is the previous Rule-making director at EASA, in addition to the …

picture: Virginia Tech Here at DRONELIFE we’ve had a serious benefit in making sense of NASA’s unmanned site visitors administration (UTM) testing and what it means for drone operators in every single place: we’ve bought Amit Ganjoo of ANRA Technologies’ cellphone quantity.  A main participant in each UTM and drone …