Mining is a growing vertical for the drone industry. Drones have a lot to offer mining: monitoring of remote operations, measuring stockpiles, and other geospatial applications have been adopted at scale in open mines. But there's an entirely different area of the mine that may get even more benefit from drone technology: inside. Inspections around dangerous equipment, … [Read more...] about Drones in Mining: A Special Kind of Drone for Inaccessible Spaces
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Senior Google and Facebook Exec Joins Autonomous Drone Startup Airobotics
"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," says a company press release. "As the first company to be granted an aviation authority to fly drones without a human pilot, Airobotics welcomes Richard to expand on its years of unique … [Read more...] about Senior Google and Facebook Exec Joins Autonomous Drone Startup Airobotics
Drone Data Management: A Conversation With David Tran
Commercial drones can provide valuable data to enterprise customers - but dealing with that data is key to serving customers. The huge quantity of data that drones gather is often not utilized to it's full potential. With thousands of images to sift through, service providers often struggle to deliver pertinent, actionable information to the correct person at the client … [Read more...] about Drone Data Management: A Conversation With David Tran
The Sky’s the Limit With Drones for Mineral Exploration
The following is a guest post by mining services expert Ben Howard. Iron oil has been mined for over 100 years in Australia, with 2230 tons of usable iron produced globally in 2016 and there is still a robust supply ready to be mined that you could potentially get your hands on with the use of the ubiquitous drone. Unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones … [Read more...] about The Sky’s the Limit With Drones for Mineral Exploration
Drones in Alternative Energy: AI is Taking the ROI to the Next Step
Implementing drones for the inspection of wind turbines is an easy decision -they are high, dangerous, and difficult: the perfect job for a drone. Combine drone inspection with Boston-based AirFusion's software solution, however, and the ROI increases exponentially. Kevin Wells, Chief Strategy Officer and CMO at AirFusion, says that the company set out to solve an obvious … [Read more...] about Drones in Alternative Energy: AI is Taking the ROI to the Next Step
