On Monday, 3D Robotics officially announced Solo, the latest and most sophisticated drone designed specifically to be flown with a GoPro camera. With up to 25 minutes of flight time and a ra... Read more
(Source:Â Bloomberg.com) Â The commercial use of drones remains mostly illegal in the U.S. All the same, businesses are moving ahead with ways to profit from the small helicopters, with some... Read more
On Wednesday, DJI unveiled the latest in consumer drone technology, the Phantom 3. Upon seeing the first official photos of the Phantom 3, both newbies and veterans alike observed that it lo... Read more
from BBC The part of a bee’s brain that allows it to see has been recreated by scientists in a computer simulation and connected to a drone – not of the bee variety, but an unman... Read more
(Source:Â technologyreview.com) Â Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days. Tom Driscoll, cofounder and chief technology officer of a startup called Echod... Read more
(Source:Â popularmechanics.com) Â For the drone revolution to really take off, the flying machines will have to fly longer than the half-hour-or-so that today’s batteries allow. Startup... Read more
In the fast-paced world of UAV start-ups, March Madness isn’t played out on the court. It’s happens high above the rim (but below 400 feet to avoid a technical FAA foul). Crowdfunded drone c... Read more
Tech giants flock to new ideas like moths to a flame. When Netflix started pumping real money into original content, so did Hulu and Amazon. Google and Facebook have not kept their drone pro... Read more
On Tuesday, San Francisco-based DroneDeploy announced the closing of a $9 million round of Series A funding lead by Emergence Capital in addition to the release of its drone fleet management... Read more
With commercial drone sales expected to soar in 2015 and beyond, the market for consumer-level (i.e. newbie) UAV sales could represent the lion’s share of revenue, leading one crowd-funded p... Read more
(Source:Â electronicsweekly.com) Drone enthusiasts are being urged to help design an app for drone flyers which helps to keep them informed of locations where it is legal and safe-to-fly dron... Read more
(Source: New York Times)  In classical mythology, Aquila is the eagle carrying Jupiter’s thunderbolts skyward. At Facebook, it is the code name for a high-flying drone, indicative of the so... Read more
3D Robotics, North America’s largest consumer drone manufacturer, announced on Thursday the release of DroneKit, a free, open-source Application Programming Interface (API) for drone a... Read more