A drone show in Perth, Australia, didn’t quite go according to plan after a number of the flying machines fell out of the sky and crashed into the water during the performance. Sunday night’s “City of Light” event took place in front of thousands of onlookers, but as the show …
Read More »Flying High: Amazon Delivery Drones Ready for Take-off
In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went on “60 Minutes” to introduce plans for a futuristic-sounding product: drone delivery. “These are effectively drones but there’s no reason that they can’t be used as delivery vehicles,” Bezos said in the segment. “We’re talking about delivery. There’s an item going into the …
Read More »Student fined S$5,000 for flying drone in NTU to take photos…
SINGAPORE: A student who flew a drone at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to take photos of his girlfriend and her friend was fined S$5,000 by a court on Monday (Oct 10) for flouting drone regulations. Xu Zi Zhou, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of operating an unmanned aircraft …
Read More »Zephyr Drone Has Been Flying For 17 Days From Arizona To Bel…
An Airbus’ Zephyr S solar-powered, very-high-altitude unmanned aircraft is in the midst of a long-duration test flight and has already been aloft for 17 days so far. The drone, sometimes described as a pseudo-satellite in terms of potential capabilities, took off from the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona …
Read More »Axon Halts Plans to Sell Flying Taser Drones to Schools
Tobias Schwarz / Getty Images Police tech company Axon is halting a controversial plan to develop aerial drones for schools equipped with stun guns after internal backlash, which reportedly drove members of its own ethics board to announce their resignations. The company had announced plans to develop taser drones in …
Read More »Delivery Drones Are Flying, But Airborne Deliveries Will Tak…
A drone from Walmart delivers a Covid self collection test kit to a home in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Drone delivery has finally arrived, at least on a small scale. Packages containing lightweight products, such as medicines and COVID tests, are being dropped off at some …
Read More »UK Health revolution: Flying drones to deliver life-saving m…
The Future Flight Challenge is a £300million UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) initiative jointly funded by Government and industry to ramp up Britain’s aviation industry. Set up by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to “drive industry change in important areas”, it involves investing in medical drone projects …
Read More »Hobby Drone Flying Legal In NZ, But Ts & Cs Apply
Flying drones has become a popular pastime in NZ, especially since the Great Lockdown of 2020. Drone popularity increased in this time since it allowed many to experience the outside world while not actually going outside and making contact with people. Hobby drone enthusiasts were also able to enjoy remote …
Read More »Flying Up Close and Within
By far, the most common use of drones is aerial photography, but as the capabilities of commercial drones have advanced, the applications have become more sophisticated, from 3D mapping to plant inspections. “We use drones to solve problems and create efficiencies,” says Steve Schleicher, partner and vice president of business …
Read More »How do you know where a drone is flying without a GPS signal…
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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