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
VTOL drone company Wingtra announces a partnership with photogrammetry giant Pix4D. Wingtra’s product offering, the WingtraOne, has received major buzz as a significant new player in c... Read more
When you’re a company attempting to get noticed in a market quickly filling with competitors, choosing a name is important. Ideally, you want to go with something that communicates you... Read more
Precision Capture, a technology firm that delivers 2D and 3D data capture, measurement and imagery solutions,has entered into a distribution partnership with Wingtra, a Zurich based startup... Read more
Vertical Technologies has released their DeltaQuad series of autonomous VTOL UAVs. This hybrid vertical takeoff fixed wing vehicle can stream telemetry and video over the cellular network us... Read more
Wingtra is the latest European drone firm seeking a foothold in the US market. Based in Zurich, Wingtra manufactures a VTOL drone, the WIntraOne. They market it as a UAV that combines... Read more
ULC Robotics, Inc. is advancing the state-of-the-art in commercial utility industry aerial inspection after successfully flight testing a newly developed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL)... Read more