Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) are a critical component of urban air mobility, drone taxis, and more future applications of flight. Lockheed Martin company Sikorsky Innovations is at... Read more
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) and the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) announce 8 BEYOND partners. These companies – including some major players in the... Read more
GM has unveiled a Cadillac brand flying car. The sleek and beautiful eVTOL passenger vehicle could be the car company’s concept of transportation’s next generation. Passenger dr... Read more
Drone provider Anduril is telling a new ghost story – with high-flying results. The California-based startup this week announced the launch of the Ghost 4 “intelligent VTOL” drone. The Ameri... Read more
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Large scale VTOL aircraft have very different capabilities than large drones: they can carry up to 6,000 pounds of cargo. On the military field, that cargo may include Warfighters and milit... Read more
EHang Holdings has announced that it has been selected to join Ambular, an international project to design the ultimate emergency vehicles: ambulance drones. “Supported by the Interna... Read more
AeroVironment acquired Pulse Aerospace earlier this year for $25.7 million – and acquired the VAPOR Helicopter UAS series with it. At last month’s Commercial UAV Expo, DRONELIFE... Read more
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed an AI simulation platform that allows users to design and iterate hybrid drones in a matter... Read more
Depending upon the terrain and conditions, there are times when a fixed-wing drone is the best tool for the job – and times when a vertical take off and landing (VTOL) drone is the onl... Read more
A California startup is launching its latest drone model with a boost of funding from VC firms. Along with Idaten Ventures and other firms, Japanese VC Drone Fund is investing more than $1.8... Read more
Our friends at Ocean Alliance have been pioneering the use of drones for marine research for quite some time. But until very recently, those drones were essentially off-the-shelf quadcopters... Read more
The U.S. Interior Department will soon be using drones to protect the nation’s natural resources and to handle emergencies. New Hampshire-based Birdseyeview Aerobotics won a federal contract... Read more
Another player in the flying taxi space has emerged in the form of Cora, the first personal transport vehicle from Kitty Hawk, Google co-founder Larry Page’s aviation company. Kitty H... Read more
When most people think of drones – even commercial ones – they picture a quadcopter, or maybe a long endurance fixed wing. But at the larger end of the market, there are new dev... Read more