Drones have sparked a revolution within the energy sector as utilities deploy unmanned aircraft to save money and lives on hazardous, expensive tasks such as power-line and wind turbine insp... Read more
With the help of drones, a Washington State professor is cultivating a new strain of research in the field of precision agriculture. Lav Khot, a professor at the university’s Center for Prec... Read more
The agriculture drone business will yield a healthy economic crop over the next four years, according to a recent market report. Zion Research released “Agriculture Drone Market: Global Indu... Read more
Maintaining optimal water quality can drive the almond industry a little nuts (sorry). However, a California-based drone company is teaming up with an academic research team to give growers... Read more
At Drone World Expo Aerovironment unveiled the Qunatix, an industrial strength fixed wing drone for the commercial market. The Quantix is a key piece to a larger end to end solution AeroViro... Read more
Technavio has identified who they believe will be the top five leading vendors for the global multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market for the period 2015-2019. The firm’s anal... Read more
Like their reclusive namesake, Hawaiian monk seals live in remote, almost-impossible-to-reach regions of the Northern Hawaiian Islands. Until recently, researchers attempting to track this e... Read more
Drone enthusiasts who want to put their money where their love is may find it difficult to directly invest in some of the big UAV names. Although there are some funds dedicated to direct UAV... Read more
A partnership between the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College and the Verge news-site has spawned a massive database project to track all 500 companies that have been granted S... Read more
(Source: defenseone.com) In the past year, drones have crashed onto the White House lawn, hauled radioactive cesium to the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s Tokyo office, and swooped a... Read more
by Molly Hornby The negative connotation of Drones is slowly being lifted as developments of the devices for commercial and recreational uses are ever increasing. Once a device solely... Read more
The drones are learning. A recent DARPA project that piggybacks a “neuromorphic chip” atop a minidrone shows promise in developing computer chips that may someday be able to learn much in th... Read more
(Source: motherboard.vice.com) Last Friday, near a cornfield in North Dakota, four underage men were pulled over under suspicion of drunk driving. The four men hopped out of their car and bo... Read more
Can AeroVironment Compete in the Commercial Drone Market?
AeroVironment’s new drone and cloud-based analytics platform squarely targets the commercial sector, but are they targeting the wrong vertical, too late in the game? QuickTake THE FACTS: Ear... Read more