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The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado announced the completion of a research project earlier this week that used drones to collect data within the park. This is a big news, primarily because drones are generally banned from all national parks. [Skip down for some analysis of drones in …

photo courtesy of Kespry Kespry, the aerial intelligence platform provider, today announced that it has enhanced the Kespry Drone 2 with higher performance features that deliver significantly greater accuracy and reliability. These enhancements enable the Kespry Drone 2 to better address a wide range of industrial applications, including those requiring …

French drone manufacturer Delair-Tech announced a partnership with German company microdrones at this week’s Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas.   Delair-Tech is a leader in commercial fixed wing drones, and the partnership with microdrones, a developer of industrial-grade multicopters, creates a significant new presence in commercial drones. The partnership will combine the R …

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Although the GoPro Karma didn’t come out on top in our comparison with the Mavic Pro, what we did like was that the Karma is clearly meant to be another cog in the wheel of GoPro’s photography eco-system. Its component parts, namely the camera, the stabilized gimbal and the drone …

Parrot Announces their S.L.A.M. dunk Development Kit This kit allows for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance indoor navigation and 3D mapping for drones and other robotic platforms in environments with multiple barriers and where GPS signals are not available. The technology, according to Parrot, enables the drone to understand and …

We literally can’t take it anymore. Another teaser from GoPro concerning the company’s highly anticipated Karma drone. But at least this time there’s a shred of tangible information. We have a launch date! According to a tweet from GoPro’s official Twitter account, the Karma will be coming on September 19th …