Neuroscientist Dr. Denise Bjorkman is passionate about her work. She talks fast and thinks fast – and began her talk at the Drones Africa Summit this morning by paraphrasing US Repres... Read more
The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction (TFR) over the areas hit by Hurricane Harvey. But the Red Cross unmanned aircraft response team, organized by professional drone photograph... Read more
The drone industry is celebrating some of the women making headlines this year. Drone360 magazine and Women and Drones have published this year’s 2017 Women to Watch in UAS, a list of... Read more
Drone manufacturing may have been revolutionized this week. Design software and services company Autodesk and the US Marine Corps (USMC) have announced a successful project to create new mi... Read more
Funding rounds for drone companies have gotten bigger and bigger as the industry matures. A new report from CB Insights names the industry’s top 10 funding deals since 2012. Some of t... Read more
On what California-based 3DR calls a “historic day,” the company announced that it has made a deal with one-time competitor DJI. In a further move towards creating an end-to-end... Read more
Determined to be part of growing Asian drone industry, the South Korean government has announced that it will invest a further 1.2 trillion won (over $1 billion) in the industry over the nex... Read more
Skylogic Research, LLC, which operates under the brand Drone Analyst, just announced the start of its 2017 Drone Market Sector Research. The goal of the report is to be the most comprehensiv... Read more
The finalists have been chosen and the battle has already begun. On June 21-22, the Commercial UAV Expo in Europe hosts the Drone Hero Europe contest to find the best of the best drone comp... Read more
Nobody does a big reveal in the drone industry quite like DJI. Sure, we knew it was going to be small. But although the various leaks gave clues about the size of the DJI Spark before the ma... Read more
Notes from the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting held Wednesday have been released, indicating that the DAC task groups have made progress on their assigned goals. Following a tour on T... Read more
The best place in the US for starting a drone business isn’t necessarily California’s Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs flock. Drone entrepreneurs who want to stand out in the... Read more
The drone industry can be fickle. While some drone companies have suffered through widely publicized failures – and consequent layoffs – in the last year, many are thriving. Wi... Read more
Walmart’s New Patent: A More Realistic Application for Drone Delivery?
Most drone industry players working towards drone delivery can agree: those applications may be a long way off in the US, due to regulations that do not yet allow for regular flight beyond l... Read more