(Source: techcrunch.com) It’s not big money yet, but drone technology has investors looking to the sky for pennies from heaven. Venture investments last quarter hit an all-time high of $65 million as Airware and PrecisionHawk raised some of the first significant follow-on rounds to date. Seed rounds shot up in 2013 as 14 new drone tech companies closed their first … [Read more...] about VCs Start To Swarm On Drone Deals
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Why Intel Just Dropped Cash on a $10 Million Bet on Drones
(Source: fastcompany.com) If you own a drone company that wants to fly unmanned aircrafts for farms and insurance companies, this is your year. PrecisionHawk just announced that Intel Capital is joining a $10 million funding round to help build out future iterations of the company’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and cloud backend. PrecisionHawk, whose plans to use … [Read more...] about Why Intel Just Dropped Cash on a $10 Million Bet on Drones
Alta Devices, Airware Partner to Bring Solar Power to Drones
(Source: pv-magazine.com) Hanergy subsidiary Alta Devices has teamed up with Airware to enable manufacturers of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to integrate solar power into aircraft. Alta Devices, which holds the world record for solar cell efficiency at 28.8%, has shown that by integrating its thin and lightweight solar material onto the wings of a small UAV, … [Read more...] about Alta Devices, Airware Partner to Bring Solar Power to Drones
Commercial Drones Are Coming, And Sooner Than You Think
(Source: techcrunch.com) When Jeff Bezos talked about delivering your Amazon packages by drone last year on 60 minutes, it seemed like a grand publicity stunt designed to get his company some attention, but the fact is we are not that far away from seeing widespread use of commercial drones –including package delivery and much more. Over the coming decade, drones will … [Read more...] about Commercial Drones Are Coming, And Sooner Than You Think
Drone Brain Makers Want To Create The DOS Of Flying Robots
from popsci.com Drones soon may be bound together by a common code. Airware, a commercial drone software company with MIT roots, hopes to unify drones in a shared code architecture. Airware already makes an autopilot, but that’s just the first step to creating a drone operating system, allowing hardware from different manufacturers to communicate with one another. It’s an … [Read more...] about Drone Brain Makers Want To Create The DOS Of Flying Robots
