Public perception of drone delivery has, until now, been relatively poor. Studies in the U.K. and elsewhere have indicated that at best roughly half of people living in communities surveyed... Read more
Researchers at Virginia Tech University, working with State Farm insurance and ParaZero drone safety systems, have finally answered the question of what happens when a drone crashes into a w... Read more
Virginia’s government drone initiative just got fueled by a $1.5 million grant to develop a research institute dedicated to autonomous systems. Gov. Ralph Northam announced the grant in a pr... Read more
Here at DRONELIFE we’ve had a major advantage in making sense of NASA’s unmanned traffic management (UTM) testing and what it means for drone operators everywhere: we’ve go... Read more
The UNICEF drone testing corridor has generated major interest from research teams who want to use the corridor to test ideas in bringing drone technology to developing countries. Virginia... Read more
A Virginia Tech study concludes that small commercial drones are very unlikely to cause serious injuries to people on the ground. In January, Virginia Tech described their testing, using cra... Read more
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved a new flight corridor in central Virginia for unnamed aircraft testing. The Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership has received a Ce... Read more
July 17 will be a day of victory to the countless amounts of people who have been fighting for looser regulations on drone usage. For the first time, a drone with a seal of approval from the... Read more
Drones, a technology once unknown to many, are making headlines again as companies such as Google and Amazon attempt to sharpen their competitive edge. Universities, however, are also playin... Read more
Just last week FAA officials announced the opening of the unmanned aircraft systems test site at Griffiss Airfield in Rome, New York, and on Wednesday the FAA has announced the opening of an... Read more
from IEEE Spectrum NASA is very proud of the Global Hawk UAVs that it uses for environmental monitoring missions like keeping track of hurricanes, among other things. We should know: we visi... Read more