Uber Eats Completes Successful Drone Delivery Tests in San Diego
The purpose of the Uber Eats Drones latest test in San Diego was to demonstrate how Uber Eats will accept orders, load food onto the drone, fly the delivery mission, and drop off...
How Drones Are Being Used for Crop Fertilization
Guest post by Emily Folk
Drones are becoming increasingly popular both recreationally and commercially, including in the agricultural industry. The commercial agricultural drone market is currently worth $80 million,...
The SkyOp LLC Launches Initiative to Pair Corporate Sponsors with Local School Districts Seeking...
Canandaigua, N.Y. – June 20, 2019 – SkyOp LLC, developer of industry-leading drone training courseware, has announced a new initiative to pair interested corporate sponsors with local school districts eager to launch high school drone...
Terra Drone Indonesia Provided Drone Training for Mining Giants: Amman Mineral and Adaro’s Subsidiary
Indonesia, June 18, 2019 –Aero Drone School, a unit of Terra Drone Indonesia has successfully completed drone training for two of Indonesia’s biggest mining corporations. The drone training provided to PT Amman Mineral Nusa...
Flock Launches First ‘Real-Time’ Insurance and Risk Management Product for Drone Fleets
London, 18 June, 2019 - Flock, the London-based insurtech startup, unveiled today ‘Flock Enterprise’, a first-of-its-kind insurance and risk management solution for drone fleets. The product leverages real-time data to provide highly...
Kespry Announces Results of Aerial Intelligence Industry’s First Mining and Aggregates Customer Survey
MENLO PARK, Calif. – June 18, 2019 – Kespry, the leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, today announced the results of the industry’s first mining and aggregates customer survey. Kespry surveyed its 220 mining...
THE DRONE INDUSTRY BAROMETER 2019
This whitepaper highlights a variety of challenges that the drone industry continues to face, as well as the changes in perspectives compared to 2018. These range from complicated and constantly changing drone...
Terra Drone Europe wins contract to provide UAV mapping services to Ordnance Survey
United Kingdom – June 13, 2019 – Terra Drone Europe, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has secured a framework agreement to provide unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services to Ordnance Survey,...
Amazon Prime Air Receives FAA Approval for Drone Deliveries, Unveils New Drone Design
The latest announcement from Amazon is two-fold: Firstly, the company confirmed that it has received approval from the FAA as an operator for commercial drone deliveries, and secondly, Amazon unveiled a new...
Drones over German cities – science fiction or future market?
Berlin/Karlsruhe, 05 June 2019. Against the backdrop of the German Federal Government’s funding programme for drones and air taxis, together with the unveiling of the CityAirbus in Ingolstadt in March, industry experts...
MicroPilot Nears DO-178C Certification
June, 2019 – Stony Mountain, Canada – MicroPilot Inc. is nearing the end of a five-year effort to achieve DO-178C Design Assurance Level B certification for its upcoming MP2128HELI3 autopilot. This certification...
New Keynotes, Sessions & STEM Program and Announced for the Energy Drone & Robotics...
The Energy Drone & Robotics Summit, taking place June 12-13 (with additional workshops June 10 - 11) at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott in Texas, has updated their agenda to include additional programming and...
Taiwan tests Terra Drone and Unifly’s drone traffic management system
Tokyo, Japan – June 7, 2019–Terra Drone Corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of industrial drone solutions, has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed...
Red Cat Announces Letter of Intent to Acquire Rotor Riot
SANTURCE, Puerto Rico, June 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Red Cat, Inc. (TFVR), a leading provider of distributed data storage, analytics and services for the drone industry, today announced a letter of...
FlytBase White Paper on Warehouse Automation – Inventory Management using Drones
Palo Alto, 4 June 2019 -- FlytBase, Inc., an enterprise drone automation company, releases a white paper highlighting the role of autonomous drones in the digital transformation of warehouses. Driven by safety,...
Zing Launches Public Beta for Free Drone Delivery iPhone App
Zing is inviting drone pilots around the globe to beta test their new Zing Drone Delivery iPhone application. The application allows drone pilots to use any DJI drone to make autonomous deliveries.
SimActive Releases Version 8.2 for Processing of Multispectral Imagery
Montreal, Canada, June 4th, 2019 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces the release of Correlator3D™ version 8.2 with advanced processing capabilities of multispectral imagery. Supported sensors include the...
Drone Technology Meets Manual Soldering
(Wertheim, 31.05.2019) "Drones are safe and reliable when, among other things, all components are correctly soldered", Jörg Nolte, Product Manager Soldering Tools, Rework and Inspection Systems, started his introductory lecture at the...
Energy Industry UAV & Robotics Expert Speakers Announced for 2019 Energy Drone & Robotics...
Houston, Texas, May 30, 2019 - The Energy Drone & Robotics Summit, taking place June 12-13 (with additional workshops June 10 - 11) at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott in Texas, is excited to...
Grinnell Mutual Implements Kespry Drone-Based Aerial Intelligence Platform
MENLO PARK, Calif. – May 29, 2019 – Kespry, the leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, today announced Grinnell Mutual, a leading property casualty insurance company and the nation’s largest primary reinsurer of...