“It is a great opportunity that has been talked about in Jamestown for a number of years,” he said. “It seems now is the time to move forward.” Aviation and drone classes will be available to Jamestown High School students as well as students from area schools who utilize the …
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A photo of Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1) taken by a drone. A drone has sensors that provide information about its movements. Credit: Aalto University In Jouko Kinnari’s doctoral dissertation, the location of a drone can be determined using map data and sensors. When Jouko Kinnari started his doctoral dissertation while …
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When Indian and Chinese forces were engaged in Ladakh last year, the Indian Army realised it needed better vigilance. The army floated an order for a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly called drones. Last week, the army signed a $20-million contract with home-grown drone …
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Ambarella This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021. Ambarella might not be as familiar a name as Intel, AMD or Qualcomm, but one of the company’s video processors is likely in some …
Read More »Drone services expand in China in 2020
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — Drone services expanded in China last year as the emerging technology has been promoted in various sectors, official data showed. There were about 523,600 registered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the end of 2020. UAVs logged 1.594 million operating flight hours last year, up 36.4 …
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Still, if you’re only in it for the aerial camera, there’s plenty to love. All the automated shot modes of the previous model—Dronie, Circle, Helix, and Rocket—are still there, along with a new one called Boomerang. As the name suggests, the Mini 2 does a flyby and then circles back …
Read More »FAA approves fully automated commercial drone flights
A Massachusetts company has just won government approval to make fully automated commercial drone flights without a human operator around ByThe Associated Press January 16, 2021, 12:53 AM • 2 min read WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts company has been granted approval to operate commercial drone flights without a person directing …
Read More »Bantec’s Drone USA Receives Purchase Orders to Supply Atlant…
Bantec’s Drone USA Receives Purchase Orders to Supply Atlantic City’s Fire and Emergency Management Department with Drones LITTLE FALLS, N.J., Jan. 14, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Bantec, Inc. (OTCPINK: BANT) (“Bantec” or the “Company”), Bantec, Inc., a product and services company, announces that its subsidiary Drone USA received purchase orders to supply …
Read More »UPS, Verizon, Skyward partner on 5G drone delivery in Florid…
Dive Brief: UPS will team up with Verizon and its subsidiary, Skyward, to deliver retail products with drones through its Flight Forward division at The Villages in Florida, Verizon announced in a press release and its CES 2021 keynote this week. The partnership will examine the use of 5G networks for …
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AFTER THE Covid lockdown was announced last year and campuses were shut, 19-year-old Dewang Subil returned to his village in Kerala from Bengaluru. Four months ago, the computer science student with a passion for photography bought a battery-operated drone — he wanted to capture the best images. Last week, Dewang …
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