Spanish UAV firm Alpha Unmanned Systems announced this week production of the High Accelerated Lifetime Testing (HALT) – a “minute-by-minute” flight test system. “This means that Alpha’s eng... Read more
European startup Quaternium recently announced its experimental hybrid fuel-electric drone broke a world record for flight endurance. A press release states the HYBRiX 2.1 quadcopter complet... Read more
A group of amateur archaeologists have unearthed the mummified remains of 72 skeletons on the island of Gran Canaria with the help of a drone. Known informally as El Legado, the Spanish grou... Read more
You may remember the late Orson Welles’ tagline from the 1970s Paul Masson commercials: “We will sell no wine before its time.” The sentiment makes compelling advertising copy but, as any vi... Read more
The combination of drones and wildfires isn’t usually a productive one. Emergency teams tasked with fighting them are often disrupted by opportunistic aerial photographers. But the tec... Read more
Spanish UAV manufacturer Alpha Unmanned Systems is one of several UAV companies chosen to participate in Inmarsat´s UAV Pop-up lab. The satellite and communications giant is using the progra... Read more
Each week we feature a video sent to us by Dronetheworld.com, a site that collects and maps drone videos from around the world. from the folks at DronetheWorld: This time we share a great mi... Read more
Officials Spain are using drones to catch tax cheats and potential terror threats. Earlier this month, the nation’s treasury ministry announced a plan to nab property owners who evade a tax... Read more
Remember that time a Dutch company hatched a plan to deploy eagles to take out drones? Yep, that’s the one – the project that wildlife experts condemned and Kanye West embraced. Now, it seem... Read more
“It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it.” With the dawning of the Drone Revolution, that old cliché may need updating as UAVs and other robotic “workers” continue to take up tasks that... Read more
(Source: cnet.com) When you think of drones, you probably think of robot vehicles soaring high over our heads. But there are plenty of hard-to-reach places that aren’t out in the ope... Read more