Skydio has just announced three new bundles for its Skydio 2 drone, saving you up to $500 at checkout while keeping you in the air for longer. The new bundles come in three versions — sports, cinema, and pro — giving you a range of accessories such as batteries, an SD card, and a hard case, to name a few.
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In the world of production, large cameras and sensors are king. Paul Nurk is pushing the limits of FPV by piloting large cameras mounted to custom-built aircraft. These custom drones provide a completely new perspective for high-end production.
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Out of nowhere, Skydio has just announced its jumping into the enterprise market with its new Skydio X2 industrial drone — the first of a planned series of products for this sector. The Skydio X2 line adds a FLIR thermal camera, a 360-degree camera, a flight time of 35 minutes, a folding design, 3D Scanner and oh dear lawd, a 100X zoom…
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Two patents from DJI have publicly been released today regards to what looks to be a bi-copter and a new drone frame, possibly for an FPV or racing style drone. The drawings show what looks to be a rectangular shaped bi-copter and a triangular drone frame.
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Rumors have spread that DJI is working on an FPV racing drone. Let us take a look at a drawing of the possible drone and a patent filed by DJI. Is DJI working a new drone that will change the FPV world forever, like they’ve done with the Phantom and Mavic series?
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If you’re visiting DJI headquarters in Shenzhen for the first time, you’ll likely receive the guest treatment. That means you’ll be taken to the main lobby and shown what looks like a small museum display. It’s a row of DJI-manufactured drones, including the iconic original Phantom that was released in 2012. It’s an astonishing record of technological accomplishment, and it makes you wonder what’s next.
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The DJI Mavic Air 2 has launched with some impressive specs that match and even surpass its bigger brother, the Mavic 2 Pro. The 48MP photos, 4k 60 fps video, HDR, 34-minute flight time, 10km transmission range, and ActiveTrack 3.0. Is it all just hype or is the Mavic Air 2 the next drone you need?
New patents from DJI have shown off what looks to be a new camera module and an optical image stabilization (OIS) system for a possible upcoming DJI product. The new camera module is rumored to be a modular system that can be equipped on various products.
DJI’s Mavic Air 2 is the hot new drone on the market right now. And with so many going up in the air, a few are likely to come down a bit harder than their owners had meant. For these mishaps, a new Mavic Air 2 teardown shows that the drone is fairly easy to fix, with some caveats.
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Drone laws are confusing, especially if you are a first-time flyer or are visiting a country. These are made even more confusing by the lack of information provided if you aren’t sure where to look. Australia doesn’t require any paperwork for a recreational pilot to start flying, but there are a few rules you need to follow.
The hottest, most contentious issue in the US drone community is the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) plans for a drone-tracking system called Remote ID. Despite huge outcry from drone owners over the FAA’s initial proposal for the system, the agency looks set to move quickly to implement it.
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Consumer drones offer vast opportunities for entertainment and creative expression in photography, as long as you follow some basic rules. The US is one of the stricter countries when it comes to drone laws, but the rules for recreational users are pretty easy to understand and comply with. And it costs only $5 to get set up.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this before. DJI has introduced its latest enterprise powerhouse drone, the DJI Matrice 300 RTK. We learned a lot about the drone earlier this week due to a few huge leaks of specs, features, photos, and videos. But it’s worth looking at the drone again now that it’s official – and an incredible intro video.
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DJI is by far the biggest player in the drone industry. And that’s troubling to Matt Gaetz, a Republican congressman representing Florida. Gaetz took his case to the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News this week with a full-throated assault on the China-based company.
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Another upcoming product launch, another set of massive leaks. So it goes for drone maker DJI. After its consumer-grade Mavic Air 2 was thoroughly leaked online, the same is now happening for the enterprise-grade Matrice 300 RTK.
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Is this the first step to Skynet? Boeing this week has unveiled an autonomous fighter jet for the Australian air force that can fly in formation with manned planes to play a role the company calls “Loyal Wingman.”
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Yesterday, we saw a video and photos of DJI’s upcoming Matrice 300 enterprise drone, which is due to be announced on May 7th. Today we have been able to take a look at some of the specs the new drone will have, thanks to leaker OsitaLV.
Auterion wants to make drones a lot more like smartphones—standardized on a common platform as Android devices are. And of course, they want to standardize drones on their platform. To achieve that, the LA-based company is branching from software into hardware, with a new family of drone avionics modules called Auterion Skynode.
Since 2016, Rwanda has been leading the world in using drones to serve its people. Now that work continues with a new program delivering chemotherapy meds in the era of COVID-19 social distancing.
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DJI has announced its latest enterprise product will be launched on the May 7th, likely the DJI Matrice 300 drone and new camera modules. Ahead of that, a video of the new drone has emerged on Twitter showing various design changes and improvements.
All the rumors were true: The DJI Mavic Air 2 is now official, and we’ve had a few days head start evaluating the new $799 wunderkind. (Buy at DJI or Adorama/$988 Fly More)
Talk about big numbers in a small (570g) package: 48 Megapixel camera which shares the Sony IMX586 sensor with recent flagship smartphones. Add the ability to record 4K video at 60 frames per second, which is double the framerate of the big brother Mavic 2 Pro.
There’s a lot more to this, so read on as we bring you exclusive footage and takes below:
DJI’s new flagship consumer drone is officially here. Rumors and leaks have given us interesting pieces of the Mavic Air 2 story. But with the official product launch, we now have the full picture of what DJI calls its “smartest” ($799 DJI Store) consumer drone.
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With now less than 24 hours until DJI’s “Up Your Game Event” where the DJI Mavic Air 2 will be unveiled, more camera specs and an image of the fly more combo have been leaked. The leaks confirm camera specs we’ve been hoping for, along with the contents of the fly more combo.
(Update: Buy at DJI or Adorama/$988 Fly More)
Once again, another image of the DJI Mavic Air 2 has appeared online ahead of its unveiling on the 27th of April. So, far we have seen images of the actual drone and what looks to be product images from DJI, today we have an image of the packing the DJI Mavic Air 2 will come in as well as some spec leaks.
(Update: Buy at DJI or Adorama/$988 Fly More)
