Are coordinated drone delivery swarms the future of last-mile delivery ecosystem? Yes, says a research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Ishveena Singh is a versatile journalist and writer with a passion for drones and location technologies. She has been named as one of the 50 Rising Stars of the geospatial industry for the year 2021 by Geospatial World magazine.
UK’s second-largest fire service is now armed with firefighting drones
Firefighting drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras will help West Midlands Fire Service to improve situational awareness and support effective decision-making on the ground.
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Canada-based agritech startup Precision AI has raised seed funding of $20 million to help the agriculture industry reduce its chemical footprint. Its solution? Deploying swarms of artificially intelligent drones to bring down the use of herbicides in agriculture dramatically.
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How do you design a lesson plan that students wouldn’t forget in a hurry? You introduce drones in the classroom.
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In an exclusive interview with DroneDJ, Claire Owen talks about founding multiple companies with no college degree, building humane software, exceeding business expectations during a pandemic, and getting more women to be a part of the drone industry. Read on…
Expand Expanding CloseEHang’s Baobab tree-inspired drone taxi vertiport is stunning: in pictures
EHang, a pioneer in passenger-grade drones and urban air mobility solutions, is making sure that when it launches its air taxis in Europe, everybody takes notice.
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Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! And boy, have we got a little treat for you from a galaxy far, far away!
Expand Expanding CloseBest under-$1,000 drones citizen journalists, photographers can buy in 2021
Drones have become an essential storytelling tool for news organizations, freelance reporters, and citizen journalists across the globe. Many people make money by selling drone footage to local news channels and stock content aggregators. But which drone should you buy to get newsworthy photos and videos?
Expand Expanding CloseWorld Press Freedom Day: How top news organizations use drone journalism
Journalists and news organizations love drones. They are affordable, easy to deploy, and much more versatile than traditional crewed helicopters. So, on World Press Freedom Day today, let’s take a quick look at some of the ways video reporters are leveraging drone journalism to gather news from a unique perspective.
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On World Press Freedom Day, here’s a quick lowdown on drone journalism interspersed with a brief history of aerial newsgathering and how drones are democratizing airborne reporting.
Expand Expanding CloseIrish drone delivery startup raises $25M for US expansion, hires Wing veteran
Manna, an Ireland-based drone delivery startup, has scooped up $25 million in Series A funding to scale its fleet and expand into the US market. And to head its US operations, the company has quietly roped in Andrew Patton, the former Lead of Strategy and Growth at Wing, a Google-developed drone delivery company.
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As pollinators of the forests, the iconic gray-headed flying fox, a megabat native to Australia, plays an extremely important role in the continent’s biodiversity. But the species is increasingly at risk of extinction. And effective monitoring has become imperative for more reliable conservation management.
Expand Expanding CloseDJI lands on Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies list
Time magazine has just released its first-ever list of 100 Most Influential Companies. And DJI is the only drone company in the world to have been featured.
Expand Expanding CloseUsing drones to see what seabirds see: a look into tidal turbulences
Drones are playing an instrumental role in helping scientists to document and tackle climate change. And the latest example of their resourcefulness comes from Northern Ireland, where researchers are using drones to understand what birds see when they look down.
Expand Expanding CloseAbsolutely insane footage of FPV drone melting inside an active volcano
Drop everything you’ve been doing and get a load of this first! You will not be disappointed.
Expand Expanding CloseOrder up: Drones are now delivering Girl Scout cookies in Virginia
“Be Prepared” may be their motto, but nobody prepared Girl Scout troops to sell cookies in the middle of a pandemic. So now, they’ve turned to drone delivery.
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Researchers are convinced that the drones of the future could very well mimic a 300-million-year-old superior flying machine: the dragonfly.
Expand Expanding CloseExyn’s LiDAR drones achieve Level 4 aerial autonomy, aka humans not needed
The mad geniuses at Exyn Technologies have broken the barriers of what is possible with drones in dark, dusty, and dangerous places where even GPS is not available. Exyn’s LiDAR drones are now capable of mapping and surveying complex underground mines on their own – without a pilot in the loop.
Expand Expanding CloseThe world’s first triple-drop delivery drone is here [Wingcopter 198 Video]
The drone delivery ecosystem has just hit a new milestone! We now have an all-weather drone that can deliver up to three packages to multiple locations during one flight.
Expand Expanding CloseWatch a DJI FPV drone take on Porsche and Mercedes-Benz on the race track
Have you ever wanted to watch the new DJI FPV drone race some of the world’s coolest hardcore sports cars? Well, we’ve got not one, but two amazing videos that should satiate your craving for speed and excitement!
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Information technology company IBM is joining forces with Dronehub, a Poland-based manufacturer of drone-in-a-box systems, to automate drone inspection missions with machine learning and AI solutions.
Expand Expanding CloseHubsan teases Zino Mini Pro: 249g, 48MP, 40-minute flight time
A new sub-250g drone is about to hit the market, and its specifications look pretty tempting – on paper at least. But can it compete with the DJI Mini 2?
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Now you can see how far along Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory has come with the extra details of incredible 4K drone footage.
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This may sound like something straight out of an episode of Black Mirror, but police surveillance via facial recognition drones has already become a reality in the Middle East.
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