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DJI, the Chinese drone firm and organizer of RoboMaster, has opened registration for its annual robotics competitors RoboMaster 2018. The successful group will take dwelling a trophy and a grand prize price $75,000. In a launch DJI describes RoboMaster as “an annual contest for teams of aspiring engineers to design …

President Trump signed a directive as we speak to launch the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program.  The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) says in an announcement that this system will “safely test and validate advanced operations for drones in partnership with state and local governments in select jurisdictions.” …

While the legislative landscapes all over the world differ in relation to drones and their use, it’s in all probability truthful to say that the demographics of pilots are pretty comparable throughout the board. Today some attention-grabbing analysis has been launched by UK distributor DronesDirect. Among the headlines are the …

One factor that everybody can agree upon is that there’s been so much occurring within the drone trade in the previous few weeks.  One of the massive information items has been the introduction of the LAANC (Low Altitude Airspace Notification Capability) system in a restricted kind.  The LAANC system might …

To catch a drone, deploy a drone. For a Dutch drone-mitigation agency, that’s not simply a intelligent flip of phrase, it’s the idea for a stable enterprise mannequin. Delft Dynamics has posted a new video that demonstrates simply how successfully an anti-drone system can neutralize rogue or errant drones. Several …

When it comes to drone know-how, most individuals have the same imaginative and prescient of the longer term. Packages will buzz round overhead, drones can be conducting inspections with autonomous ease; there would possibly even be passenger automobiles gracing our skies. Nothing can be crashing or shedding management and collectively …

Drone know-how, each the flying and the ground-based variety, is advancing rapidly. Industry-specific UAVs are already being put to work in a few of the darkest and most harmful locations on this planet. But from underground mines to nuclear cleanups, comparable challenges are current to engineers and builders. The most …

The NUAIR Alliance, a consortium of New York and Massachusetts corporations, has introduced that Major General Marke F. “Hoot” Gibson, USAF (Ret) has been employed as their new CEO “to provide strategic leadership to the region’s UAS and UTM efforts.” General Gibson is well-known inside the UAS business as the major …

WiBotic, a Seattle wi-fi energy and battery intelligence resolution supplier for the robotics trade, has introduced WiBotic EnergyPad, an built-in wi-fi charging pad for drones. Designed for drone operators who don’t wish to develop their very own wi-fi charging pad, WiBotic EnergyPad incorporates the WiBotic transmitter circuit, transmitter antenna and …

picture: Near Earth The world’s largest aerospace firm, Boeing [NYSE: BA] has introduced its newest funding in autonomous plane.  Boeing bought Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based firm “focused on developing a portfolio of technologies that enable safe and reliable autonomous flight.”Near Earth Autonomy, a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Near Earth …