HALF MOON BAY, CA Friday, May 17th—Today, Zipline, the world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, announced it has raised $190 million in new financing, which values the company at over 1 billion dollars. The new funds will support the global expansion of Zipline’s lifesaving service across Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the…
DHL Express, the world’s leading international express delivery service provider, and the world’s leading intelligent autonomous aerial vehicle company EHang have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly launch a fully automated and intelligent smart drone delivery solution to tackle the last-mile delivery challenges in the urban areas of China. The launch ceremony was held…
While recreational flyers may continue to fly below 400 feet in uncontrolled airspace without specific certification or operating authority from the FAA, they are now required to obtain prior authorization from the FAA before flying in controlled airspace around airports. Furthermore, they must comply with all airspace restrictions and prohibitions when flying in controlled and…
You may have heard about a recent $20 million dollar Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) corridor New York is building. I thought you might be interested in our experiences so far in the construction of this capability, and our vision to build a venue for regional, national, and global UAS industry research and development.…
The CUAS Coalition is offering a great technology to reduce the cognitive workload from central command to the warfighter on the ground through an innovative command & control technology. Our spotlight company that we are assisting just needs a military unit to field the technology, and the US Air Force to manage it by writing…
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Volocopter have signed an agreement to jointly test and develop new navigation and automatic landing systems for Volocopter’s vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as the emerging era of urban air mobility moves closer to delivering a new breed of cleaner, safer and smarter air vehicles. This agreement launches Honeywell’s extensive autonomous sensing and flight technologies,…
It’s probably no surprise that Chinese drone manufacturer DJI dominates the market in multicopters (and more specifically quadcopters, meaning drones with four rotors). But who makes the most popular fixed-wing drone in America? That award goes to senseFly, which makes the eBee fixed-wing drone. The senseFly eBee drone senseFly drones (largely the eBee) accounted for…
Although the Fullspeed TL is 3S rated, it could be different or I just had a bad luck. During my Fullspeed TinyLeader review, initially I test it with 2S battery and everything went good. Being curios to test its top performance, I powered it with a 3S LIPO pack. On first full throttle, some smoke…
The next Outback Challenge task has been released. To take place in 2020 the next edition seems to include a second robot. One taken there by a flying one. This is going to be amazing! Not only do competitors have to fly 20 km to reach Outback Joe, injured in his barn but they have…
In light of recent devastating wildfires in California, many public agencies, municipalities and landowners are actively pursuing new tools for vegetation management and fuel-load monitoring, particularly in the urban-wildland interface where the greatest threats occur. UAVs, or drones, are an emerging technology for high-resolution aerial mapping and provide a powerful new tool for monitoring local…