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The Drone Racing League has introduced that Jordan “Jet” Temkin is the 2017 DRL Allianz World Champion. It’s the second time Temkin has been awarded the title of the “World’s Greatest Drone Pilot”. Jet received the ultimate race as he sped by way of the Grand Tour Finish Gate throughout …

There’s little question that drone is changing into far more client pleasant. Industry giants together with DJI and Yuneec have launched drones focused on the decrease finish of the market in latest months. There are additionally loads of producers solely producing cheaper drones. But put apart the simple to make use …

Communication and coordination are very important to the dealing with of any main catastrophe. In the case of floods and hurricanes, telecoms infrastructure is commonly the very first thing to go underneath. Without it, first responders can discover it troublesome to speak successfully – with one another and with folks …

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, …

Drones get a number of credit score for his or her pioneering potential throughout numerous industrial sectors. From inspection and upkeep to aerial images and agriculture, there’s no finish of use circumstances and excited adopters. But, as we’ve written about earlier than, the identical know-how can also be revolutionizing the environmental …

Guest put up by Drone Industry Insights — To push the boundaries of drone flight efficiency, batteries should grow to be smaller and lighter. It seems that we reached a sure restrict relating to energy density. Lithium-Polymer (Li-Po) and Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) batteries have grow to be very small and reasonably priced, …

Drones are slowly creeping into extra points of our day by day lives. Soccer followers in Portugal should have realized as a lot by now, after a person standing on high of a hoverboard/drone hybrid flew across the stadium earlier than delivering the match ball to the referee. The dramatic Man Riding …

Optelos proclaims the PointCloud Visualizer, which permits drone operators to add knowledge to the cloud after which create knowledge fashions, which could be seen and shared with shoppers and stakeholders. Pix4D, DroneDeploy, and different drone mapping software program are options for processing and producing detailed knowledge fashions. The problem, nonetheless, …

On Tuesday, May 23rd the subsequent episode of Breakthrough, National Geographic’s in style documentary collection, will premiere at 10pm ET. The title of the subsequent present within the collection is ‘Game of Drones’. The program charts the rise of anti-drone know-how and follows a quantity of groups competing within the Counter …

Idaho drone producer xCraft has introduced the launch of its newest VTOL drone, the x2 Geo. The x2 Geo will likely be provided to professionals as a part of another mapping resolution, utilizing VTOL know-how to protect battery life and enhance flight time. xCraft’s new drone comes after the profitable launch …