Japan's first mass production of drones will kick off this year at a plant near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to drone expert Kenzo Nonami and product prototype manufacturer Kikuchi Seisakusho Co. Kikuchi Seisakusho plans to produce 400 unmanned surveillance aircraft at its plant
City officials in the Boston suburb of Somerville hired Above Summit, an aerial cinematography and multimedia company, to survey municipal buildings for excessive snow buildup using the flying robots. “They hover the drones right above the city building roofs, and then send us video that they capture as it comes
Lockheed Martin has tweaked the design of the flying wing-shaped Fury unmanned air vehicle (UAV) as it pursues contracts from US special operations forces and the international market. The Block 10 update of the five-year-old Fury design adds a wider-chord and longer-span airfoil to increase
Events
His Excellency Major General Dr. Obaid Al Ketbi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for IDEX 2015, Humaid Matar Al Dhaheri, ADNEC Acting Group CEO, Mr. Saleh Al Marzooqi, CEO IDEX and representatives from the UAE Armed Forces GHQ gathered to highlight the latest technologies and products that will be on
Leisure-1 unpublished list
The Autonomous Eagles is a newly-formed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight team at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The main concept behind the group was to form a professional grade aerial team that would be able to perform and compete at conferences and competitions. First
Agriculture
Boulder, Colorado-based Agribotix is helping farmers save money and conserve water and resources in a new way: by flying drones over their fields to measure crop density, growth and many other factors. Agribotix, founded last year, works with farmers in Colorado like this: They send up drones over a
Video
The Bearcat design was the Grumman response to the US Navy’s request in the latter war years for a fast responsive fighter to be deployed in the Pacific Theatre. The type did not see operational service during the Second World War as the conflict had ended before the type
Business
“Merrick is thrilled to partner with Juniper Unmanned as they offer a wide range of exceptional professional services for the rapidly emerging UAS market. "
Business
India is to begin manufacturing an indigenous derivative of AeroVironment’s family of small unmanned air systems, that will be dubbed the “Cheel”. The Cheel will be co-developed by AeroVironment and Indian company Dynamatic Technologies in a production facility in Bangalore that was inaugurated on 17 February. “The governments
Accidents
A Russian drone was shot down over the weekend during heavy fighting against separatist forces near the government-held port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian forces. The drone was quickly identified as a Russian-designed and manufactured drone designated E08 by its manufacturer, the Enics company,
Aerial Photography
Pix4D, together with Aeryon Labs Inc. and PUC University of Rio de Janeiro, has reconstructed the first accurate 3D model of Brazil’s most important monument: the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Using the Aeryon UAV platform for data acquisition and Pix4D’s image processing software for
Mapping & Surveying
The million European Research Council (ERC) project aims to study how the Amazonian land was used during the late pre-Columbian period (the last 3 thousand years leading up to Christopher Columbus’s voyages of 1492).