DARPA challenges innovators to create muscular drones By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill Heavy-lift drones, the workhorses of the drone ecosystem, face a significant obstacle to their widespread adoption for military and commercial uses: their payload-to-weight ratio is low, typically far below one-to-one for multirotor UAVs. Hoping to solve this problem, the Defense … [Read more...] about DARPA Launches $6.5 Million Challenge to Reinvent Heavy-Lift Drones
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Breaking the Limits: How Solid-State Hydrogen is Powering the Next Generation of UAVs
Battery endurance is a bottleneck for drone technology. Could hydrogen offer a solution? DRONELIFE is honored to publish this guest post from Dr, Neel Sirosh, CTO at H2MOF: a provider of safe and efficient hydrogen storage solutions. DRONELIFE neither accepts nor makes payment for guest posts. Overcoming the UAV Industry’s Energy Storage Bottleneck Written by Dr. Neel … [Read more...] about Breaking the Limits: How Solid-State Hydrogen is Powering the Next Generation of UAVs
