As America’s unemployment rate continues to hover in the double digits in the wake of pandemic, more former employees are launching a new path as entrepreneurs. Barry Alexander believes the... Read more
Toronto-based Drone Delivery Canada has picked up its second contract with DSV Air & Sea Inc. Canada, a subsidiary of Danish conglomerate DSV Panalpina A/S. With the assistance of Air Ca... Read more
UAV startup Wingcopter is flying high this week after being named one of nine winners of Germany’s top global hackathon to kick-start humanitarian drone delivery. The autonomous delivery dro... Read more
The current COVID-19 crisis response has hit business across the globe, and the drone industry has been no exception. Insur-tech startup SkyWatch.ai has been working with drone companies th... Read more
New York-based firm EagleHawk has developed a way to sanitize large areas against COVID-19 via disinfectant drones. Using EPA-approved chemicals, the disinfectant drones can spray over large... Read more
A Connecticut town is testing a drone that can measure social distancing and detect COVID19 symptoms from the air. The Westport Police Department recently partnered with Canadian drone compa... Read more
The news around the world is dominated by the current pandemic – and drone industry news is no exception. Just as drones saw new uses in disaster response efforts after hurricanes and... Read more
News and Commentary. Drones equipped with loudspeaker systems are now being commonly used in the Covid-19 crisis to monitor communities for compliance to public safety orders – but so... Read more
CA-based Skydio has been forced to stop shipping drones due to the Covid-19 “Stay at home” order in force in northern California. Skydio drones are assembled in a factory in the... Read more
A subsidiary of Japanese drone provider Terra Drone is helping keep communities safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan. The Nur-Sultan Police Department hired KazUAV to patrol the cap... Read more
Despite stay-at-home orders in more than 25 states due to the coronavirus pandemic, utility workers (including drone operators) remain on the job as the first line of defense of critical pow... Read more
As drones help flatten the curve that is the global coronavirus pandemic, a British police force has been criticized for going too far with aerial surveillance. On Thursday, Derbyshire Polic... Read more
(News and Commentary). Drone delivery heroes Zipline are already performing thousands of lifesaving drone delivery flights every day in Africa. The world’s largest drone delivery netw... Read more