Trying to find a parking spot in packed cities can be frustrating. But it inspired one UMass Dartmouth PhD senior with an idea that won him an international contest. Faced with the difficulty of parking his car in packed lots at Logan Airport and the Providence Place mall, Amir Ehsani
Business
Over the last two years Da-Jiang Innovations, better known as DJI, has emerged as the world's most popular consumer drone maker, at least by revenue. And The Verge has learned that the company is currently in talks with Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms to
Accidents
An unmanned Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force surveillance aircraft crashed on a training range in Oita Prefecture late last year in an accident that was never disclosed publicly. The incident came to light after a recent Asahi Shimbun interview with the Japanese Defence Ministry. According to ministry officials, on Nov.
Regulations
If you fly a drone and post footage on YouTube, you could end up with a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration. Earlier this week, the agency sent a legal notice to Jayson Hanes, a Tampa-based drone hobbyist who has been posting drone-shot videos online for roughly the
Agriculture
Unmanned aerial vehicles are instrumental in collecting multispectral imaging and provide data rich images, which are not visible to the naked eye. Draganfly Innovations now provides an all-inclusive solution that can plan, fly, and process advanced multispectral data. The Draganflyer Pro-Ag package is a comprehensive and powerful tool
Military
The German Air Force has touted the benefits that a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air vehicle would have over a converted business jet to fill the signal intelligence capability gap that it was left with in 2010. It retired its Breguet Atlantics that carried out this role to pave
Regulations
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) presented its new regulatory approach for safely operating remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS). This marks a significant change in the way aviation safety regulations are developed, becoming proportionate to the risks they aim to address. Called ‘Concept of Operations’, this new approach foresees safe
Testing
An unhackable Boeing Little Bird unmanned aircraft should be in flight around the end of 2017. Defence industry programmers are rewriting software on the helicopter drone to encapsulate its communications computer. That way, no outsiders can steer the unmanned aerial vehicle to strike, say, civilians, or tamper with surveillance video
Regulations
The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) of the Ministry of Communications in Brunei has reminded the public that launching of any unmanned aircraft, commonly known as drone, is a prohibited activity under Section 21 of the Civil Aviation Order 2006. The DCA said it is an offence to use Unmanned
Pakistan has successfully test-flown its indigenously developed armed drone ‘Burraq’ and laser-guided missile ‘Barq’. Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif witnessed the test on static and moving targets with impressive pinpoint accuracy. The all-weather drone has multiplied armed forces’ capability against the terrorists, said an ISPR
Business
Strat Aero has raised £660,000, before expenses, through the issue of 7,333,334 new ordinary shares at 9p per share. Strat Aero says this funding marks a significant step for the company as it continues to realise its strategy of capitalising on commercial opportunities across the rapidly growing
Regulations
The main issue with holding an interactive conference in the 21st century is easy access to the latest technology. That in mind, the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas has had to take the precautionary step of banning drones. “SXSW has a strict no drones policy due to the safety risks