drones

Silent Arrow announced the United States Air Force has awarded the company a contract entitled "Guided Bundle Derivative of Silent Arrow for Side Door and Palletized Swarm Deployment at High Speeds and Altitudes." Under contract, the…

Here’s your chance to be a drone pilot and experience drone racing while pushing #DroneSkills to the limit. The Drone Racing League (DRL) just launched its first mobile game, Drone Racing Arcade with Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ) the app is free for…

Farmers Insurance announced that it will use a digitally controlled mobile robot for in-field catastrophe claims handling and non-catastrophe property inspections, making it one of the first national P&C insurers to deploy a robotic…

Integrating a level of automation to control up to 10 drones from a single ground station was the goal of researchers at the UC3M's Robotics Lab. The project involves an operator designating missions to be undertaken and a system…

Human professional drone pilots are expert at using drones in search and rescue, building inspection, cargo delivery—applications where speed is critical. The drone’s limited battery life means that no matter what they face-- going through…

It’s all about practical applications and the researchers found a good one—autonomous gas source localization. Simply, rapidly finding gas leaks in a large building or industrial site without risking human firefighters. The researchers…

Recently the DARPA Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program demonstrated a Counter-Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) multilayer defense architecture at Eglin Air Force Base. The goal—to defeat unauthorized drone intrusions over military…

Drones are a key market that impacts many different aspects of industry and commercial use cases. IDTechEx's new report covers the hardware, software, sensors, and use cases for this key industry in ‘Drone Market and Industries 2021-2041’.

Opteran just raised seed funding in the amount of £2.1 million to launch a radical lightweight, low-cost silicon-based approach to autonomy called Natural Intelligence. The company had its roots in eight years of insect-brain research…

We lose about 13 million forest hectares per year, and of the 45% of our world’s original forest cover, most has been cleared within the last century. And when we lose forest cover, we also lose species biodiversity, as forest inhabitants…