The drone industry continues to evolve, with new hardware offerings appearing at every new trade show. As industry observers look for hard evidence on what to expect next, one clue can be found in these year-end review statistics DRONELIFE received from open source drone development leaders Auterion. (The data source to compile the contributions statistics is the PX4 Github … [Read more...] about Open Source Drone Operating Systems Continue to Gain Ground: The Year in Review for PX4
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Software Defined Drones and the Path to Standardization and Scale in the Drone Industry
At the InterGeo conference in Stuttgart today, Kevin Sartori, Co-Founder of Auterion and an ambassador for open source software for drones, says the drone industry is going through a transformation - and his analogy to the auto industry is both fascinating and a bit frightening for industry watchers. The Model T and the Start of Scale for an Industry 100 years ago, says … [Read more...] about Software Defined Drones and the Path to Standardization and Scale in the Drone Industry
Linux Foundation Fuels Open-Source Drone Efforts
(Source: cnet.com) The folks who help bring you the Linux operating system today want to bring you better drones tomorrow. The Linux Foundation, which sponsors some development of the widely used operating system, announced the new open-source Dronecode software project. Dronecode brings a formal structure and oversight to two existing open-source drone projects, the … [Read more...] about Linux Foundation Fuels Open-Source Drone Efforts
