Drones and the Age of Automation Guest post by Amit Ganjoo, CEO of ANRA Technologies — Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming a buzzword in the technology industry. There has been a phenomenal growth in recent years in industries adopting artificial intelligence and Machine learning to automate operations and manufacturing processes. There is […]

Swiss Drone Firm Inks Sky-high Aircraft Leasing Deal A major Swiss drone company has inked a deal that will create one of the world’s largest global leasing service for UAS. UMS Skeldar announced the partnership last week with JetLease, an American multi-national group listed as one of the world’s largest aircraft leasing […]

Intel Drones Do Wonder Woman The ability to manage a swarm of drones can have any number of business benefits — not the least of which is the WOW factor. Intel has staged a number of light shows with swarms of drones. The most recently their technology was used to produce a […]

Intel Drones Do Wonder Woman The ability to manage a swarm of drones can have any number of business benefits — not the least of which is the WOW factor. Intel has staged a number of light shows with swarms of drones. The most recently their technology was used to produce a […]

Dutch Project Snags Rogue Drones in Nets of Justice A Dutch company debuted a drone-snagging drone at one of Europe’s top defense industry expos this week. Delft Dynamics unveiled the DroneCatcher project, a program backed by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (Military Police), the Dutch National Police and the Dutch Ministry of Safety […]

Parrot Enters the Racing Drone Market with Mambo FPV News from France: One of the few remaining competitors to DJI, Parrot, has launched a racing drone: The Mambo FPV. Although it’s probably more precise to say that Parrot has launched several accessories that make its original Mambo – a $100, modular minidrone […]

PrecisionHawk’s Michael Chasen: Drones Will Revolutionize Every Industry They Touch PrecisionHawk‘s CEO Michael Chasen isn’t afraid to make big statements – or to take big actions.  In his keynote address to last week’s InterDrone conference, Chasen said that drones were a transformative technology, and PrecisionHawk was ready for the transformation. Chasen framed […]

Skyfront Sets Multirotor Drone World Record with 4 hour and 34 minute Flight Time Earlier this week a Chinese firm, Foxtechhobby, claimed it had set a drone world record with a flight of 3 hours. The record did not stand long. Skyfront, a California startup, is reporting that its multirotor drone, the […]

EPFL Collapsible Drone Offers “Last-centimeter Delivery” A team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a Swiss university specializing in engineering, has developed a foldable, origami-style delivery drone that encloses its package and has internal propellers for safer transport. It’s been labeled as a drone for “last-centimeter” delivery.  Last-centimeter Delivery When reading about […]

FlightWave and Intelligent Energy Announce Jupiter: a Hydrogen Drone for Industrial Use Last week’s InterDrone conference saw a lot of new and innovative products announced.  One of the most interesting was the result of a partnership between CA-based FlightWave Aerospace Systems, Inc. and UK-based Intelligent Energy: the hydrogen-powered Jupiter-H2. The Jupiter doesn’t […]