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Seattle startup Vtrus has raised investment for a different kind of drone — one that’s designed to conduct precision inspections of industrial facilities. A SEC filing published on March 7th.shows a $2.9 million cash infusion for Vtrus. Renato Salas-Moreno, the company’s CEO and co-founder, declined to comment
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The Japanese government on Tuesday approved a bill to revise the drone regulation law to prohibit the flying of drones over U.S. military bases and Self-Defense Forces’ facilities as part of its measures to prevent terrorist attacks using drones. The government plans to submit the bill to the current
Commercial
Thales and Vodafone have joined the National Beyond visual line of sight Experimentation Corridor (NBEC) partnership alongside founding partners Cranfield University and Blue Bear Research Systems. The addition of these two global industry leaders is a significant boost in the capabilities of NBEC, as the corridor continues to be developed.
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Farmers in North Canterbury, New Zealand are now herding sheep with a drone outfitted with a speaker that barks like a dog. They say that a single drone can do the work of multiple dogs. Shepherd Corey Lambeth, told Radio New Zealand that drones are very helpful. “That’s the
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HYBRiX drone, the first hybrid fuel-electric multirotor with 10 times more flight time than electric drones, is now the subject of collaboration between the company and Benidorm City Hall to start one of the pioneer First-Response drone services worldwide. This innovative project from Quaternium attracted a lot of attention after
Business
Maynooth University and Intel Ireland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership for research and innovation, and to nurture future talent. Building on already strong relationships between Intel and Maynooth, the MoU will establish a more comprehensive and structured format for creative collaborations in key
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Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed an innovative method for detecting koala populations using drones and infrared imaging that is more reliable and less invasive than traditional animal population monitoring techniques. In the study, published in Nature journal Scientific Reports, the researchers detail the technique that involves an algorithm
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The Californian City of Chula Vista is inviting the private sector to propose projects, partnerships and pilot programmes to test drones and autonomous vehicles (AVs). The city has issued a Request for Expressions of Interest highlighting the numerous city-owned facilities available to businesses and organisations working on autonomous vehicles (AV)
Commercial
FlytBase, Inc. and Skysense, Inc. have just announced a partnership to bring fully-automated, low-cost drone-in-a-box solution to the market and help customers scale their commercial drone deployments. As drone operations continue to grow in 2019, businesses are looking for ways to automate and scale their operations to achieve a greater
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Thales and Telstra combine their expertise with a view to building a robust, safe and secure ecosystem that will enable the management of low altitude airspace for manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Thales and Telstra have jointly prototyped a data and communication solution to prepare the way for the
Testing
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) demonstrated its outstanding capabilities to a large European oil and gas corporation during demanding trials in Rivers State, Nigeria, from 27 to 30 January 2019. The international oil and gas industry has shown increasing interest in employing UAS to effectively monitor and
Commercial
The second-generation Laser Methane Copter by SPH Engineering and PERGAM transfers high-precision data on the go. This solution answers the need for a safer ready-to-use drone-based detecting system for every company that produces, transfers or uses methane. Natural gas pipeline surveys, tank inspections, landfill emission monitoring, gas well testing, plant