Yesterday’s announcement of the chosen participants in the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) was exciting news for the state, local, and tribal governments listed. It was good news... Read more
“Airobotics, the Israeli startup that built the world’s first fully automated drone, announced today the appointment of Richard Wooldridge as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer,... Read more
News of drone platforms around the globe participating in an unmanned traffic management (UTM) projects has been frequent lately. It’s hard to identify the true leaders in this new ar... Read more
Another player in the flying taxi space has emerged in the form of Cora, the first personal transport vehicle from Kitty Hawk, Google co-founder Larry Page’s aviation company. Kitty H... Read more
The FAA announced yesterday that the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), which provides real-time airspace authorizations, will be expanded to 500 airports beginn... Read more
A Taiwanese start-up is shining a new light into the dark quagmire of anemic drone flight time by harnessing sunlight. SolarDrone, a research project of National Taiwan University, has devel... Read more
Another name has quietly shown up on the list of providers testing the prototype of the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC): Project Wing. Project Wing is commonly... Read more
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, recently held a drone race. While the twisting obstacle course was typical for a difficult race -the competito... Read more
A drone piloted by NASA’s artificial intelligence has taken on a DRL FPV pilot, with interesting results. If futurists are to be believed, most of our jobs are under threat from the r... Read more
In the past few months, we’ve had plenty of news in the drone delivery space. While regulations don’t appear to be making room for beyond line of sight flight anytime soon, sever... Read more
The Drone User Group Network (DUG) has announced that DUG Director of Policy Kenji Sugahara has been chosen as a voting member of the UAS Identification and Tracking ARC. Sugahara’s ap... Read more
News and Opinion. While Amazon, Google, Walmart and other huge retailers are doing their best to publicize drone delivery, the idea has a PR problem. If drone delivery means having drones... Read more
The Commercial Drone Alliance has announced that Laura Ponto, the Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Project Wing at X, has been appointed to serve as Chairman of the Board. Th... Read more
By Mike Winn, CEO and co-founder, DroneDeploy — DJI is currently winning the drone wars. Not only have they captured the lion’s share of the market, but in just one year they have also manag... Read more