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A new navigation system for drones reduces the processing power needed to avoid obstacles, even in tricky environments like forests Technology 4 May 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker A new navigation system enables a swarm of 10 lightweight drones to fly together without crashing into one another or obstacles, even in …

In June, we announced the roll out of Wing’s free drone flyer app, OpenSky, in the United States to help drone operators of all stripes share the sky safely. Already, we’ve seen tens of thousands of operators — everyone from professional photographers to surveyors to hobby flyers — use the …

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A drone to spray the breeding grounds of malaria-carrying mosquitoes is tested at Cheju paddy farms in Zanzibar, Tanzania. [AP] You can now fly your drone without having to employ aggressive methods of watching your back. That is if, you obtain a licence to be a remote pilot. Drones mostly …

It’s been three and a half years since P.E.I. RCMP trained its first five drone pilots and just last week, eight more members were added to the team.  “As time goes on we’re seeing more and more calls where a drone is useful,” said RCMP Staff-Sgt. Kevin Baillie, the drone co-ordinator for …

The DJI Mini 2, which easily can be stuffed into a jacket pocket, can fly as far as 6 miles from its controller, though in most settings, the practical range will be much less. Using an enhanced communications technology called OcuSync that DJI invented, communications will be much more reliable …

There are four ways drones typically navigate. Either they use GPS or other beacons, or they accept guidance instructions from a computer, or they navigate off a stored map, or they are flown by an expert in control. What do you when absolutely none of the four are possible? Exyn …

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Michigan. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehre Goodbye, Reaper. Hello, Skyborg. The U.S. Air Force wants a new hunter-killer drone to replace its current fleet of 306 propeller-driven MQ-9 Reapers. And …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Engineers admire the dragonfly’s flying ability, but have found it impossible to mimic When Storm Ciara swept across the UK in February, Alex Caccia was strolling on Oxford’s Port Meadow watching birds take to the air. He marvelled at their indifference to high winds: …

Matternet CEO Andreas Raptopoulos walks next to an operator carrying a drone used for delivery of medical specimens after a flight at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 26, 2019. Matternet and UPS partnered with the hospital to start commercial flights of medical samples across the WakeMed campus. …