Insurance is taking a more important role in the drone industry, as InsurTech and drone insurance companies collaborate with hardware and software providers. Leading commercial and defense drone systems provider AeroVironment announced a collaboration with REIN's DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal. DroneInsurance.com will offer commercial drone insurance … [Read more...] about Drones and Insurance are Moving Closer All the Time: AeroVironment Collaborates with DroneInsurance.com
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India Moves Forward on Drone Regulations
India's Director General of Civil Aviation has announced the country's policy for drones, effective December 1, 2018. The new policy defines and classifies drones, puts in place a permitting process for operators, and outlines flight restrictions. The DGCA uses the term "remotely piloted aircraft" (RPA) to describe an unmanned aircraft piloted from a remote pilot station, … [Read more...] about India Moves Forward on Drone Regulations
The Next Amazing Drone Use Case: FLIR Talks Thermal Payloads
The team at FLIR hears about new uses for thermal imaging all the time - and as thermal imaging is adopted by more drone pilots, those use cases will continue to expand. That's why FLIR is on a mission to get thermal to more users - and to make it easy to learn. Ezra Merrill, FLIR's Director of Marketing for OEM and Emerging Markets, says that thermal can provide a totally … [Read more...] about The Next Amazing Drone Use Case: FLIR Talks Thermal Payloads
Making Sense of Big Drone Data with Optelos
Commercial drone adoption is currently at an all-time high. But we’re still far from where drones are fully integrated into the processes that make businesses grow. Maybe we are not quite as the level of the pioneers of aviation like the Wright brothers were but let's agree that we are early in the process. As builders, growers, engineers, and the like continue to scale … [Read more...] about Making Sense of Big Drone Data with Optelos
Truth is Stranger than Fiction: This Drone Uses the Super Powers of Spider Silk
At first glance, it seems like it must be one of those internet hoaxes: a drone made of spider silk - from a company called Spidey Tek, no less - is certainly not a run of the mill product. But this drone is just as strange and beautiful as it sounds: and the benefits of using spider silk are very real. Spidey Tek - a biotech company partnered with Utah State University - is … [Read more...] about Truth is Stranger than Fiction: This Drone Uses the Super Powers of Spider Silk
