It's the ultimate solution to the problem of drone flight endurance - harnessing mother nature's power. Researchers from the University of Washington have put a tiny sensor backpack on bees to gather aerial data. Bees are more important to farming that you might have imagined. According to the 2004 USDA piece titled, "Bee Benefits to Agriculture" the USDA tells us that … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Solution to Battery Endurance: Researchers Put Drone ‘Backpack’ on Bees to Help Gather Data for Farming
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Former FAA head, Michael Huerta joins ParaZero Advisory Board
ParaZero, the Tel-Aviv based drone recovery systems company announced today that former US FAA Administrator Michael Huerta has joined their advisory board. Mr. Huerta was nominated by US President Barack Obama and finished out his five year term under President Donald Trump. He finished his out his 5 year term on January, 2018. The FAA is the US based agency responsible … [Read more...] about Former FAA head, Michael Huerta joins ParaZero Advisory Board
Latvian Startup AirBoard Launches Agriculture Drone For Vineyards
Latvia has contributed more to the drone industry than you might expect. The country's most notable entrance to the market has come from Aerones, a startup you might remember for assisting a world record skydive and, more recently, using drones to fight fires and clean windows and wind turbines. Today we have news of another heavy lifting drone out of Latvia. This time it's … [Read more...] about Latvian Startup AirBoard Launches Agriculture Drone For Vineyards
Drone Start-Up Birdstop Expands Flight times by Easy Battery Exchanges
DroneLife had a chance to catch up with the CEO and C0-Founder Keith Miao of a new drone start-up named Birdstop.io at the Commercial UAV Expo in London recently. Keith was a member of a several panels that we participated including the ROI of Drones. We caught up at the show. The Palo Alto, California based drone start-up builds autonomous battery exchange stations … [Read more...] about Drone Start-Up Birdstop Expands Flight times by Easy Battery Exchanges
PrecisionHawk Acquires Drone Inspection Firm Uplift
Drone tech provider PrecisionHawk, has purchased inspection service Uplift Data Partners. Uplift provides turn-key inspection services for construction and building information management (BIM) as well as for real-estate. The company’s nationwide network of commercially trained drone pilots will join PrecisionHawk’s Droners.io network which consists of more than 15,000 … [Read more...] about PrecisionHawk Acquires Drone Inspection Firm Uplift
