Former DJI Executive Romeo Durscher has joined open source platform Auterion as Vice President of Public Safety. Romeo Durscher brings his years of passion for using drones to save lives and... Read more
How optimistic are stakeholders about the drone industry outlook for 2021? 2020 has been a year to remember, with ups and downs for everyone. We’ve seen drone conferences go remote,... Read more
U.S. drone manufacturers are making new production deals with overseas companies following the U.S. DOJ’s decision to limit funding for drones manufactured in “listed” coun... Read more
Drone industry analysts DRONEII has announced the publication of the Drone Industry Barometer 2020: a commercial drone industry survey completed in cooperation with Interaerial Solutions in... Read more
Public perception of drones is of critical importance to the drone industry, as commercial drones become more visible through applications like drone delivery and power line inspections. In... Read more
Japan’s global drone services powerhouse, Terra Drone, has invested in Dutch drone services company Skytools to create a major European drone hub in Rotterdam. The new venture will in... Read more
At DRONELIFE, we’ve gathered some anecdotal evidence over the years about how many drone pilots are flying without a license. Whenever we’ve asked drone operators that we meet i... Read more
Flyability and Pix4D, two major names in the drone industry, have joined forces to bring indoor drone inspections to the next level. Flyability’s Elios series offers a unique and sophi... Read more
A new California privacy law could change everything for drone operators in the state – and could be used as a model across the country. The following is a guest post by attorneys from... Read more
The FAA has released their annual aerospace forecast – and the drone industry figures are both impressive and surprising. We’ll dive into different areas of the forecasts in fut... Read more
US-based drone manufacturer Aria Insights, formerly CyPhy Works, has closed its doors for good. (Shoutout to The Robot Report who was first to publish the news.) Former CEO Lance Vanden Bro... Read more
At the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, the Advanced Drone Operators Toolkit – a user-manual for governments wanting to scale drone delivery – was released. This open so... Read more
The following is a guest post by Kittyhawk co-founder and chief pilot, Joshua Ziering. Kittyhawk is a leading integrated drone operations platform provider. May 22 is an important day in av... Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives Aviation Subcomittee held a hearing focusing on drones. The “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Emerging Uses in a Changing National Airspace” hearing... Read more