Transport
SF Express, China’s biggest logistics firm, announced that subsidiary Fengyu Shuntu Technology received the first official permit in China to deliver packages via unmanned aerial vehicles, following a series of tests that began last June (link in Chinese). SF Express aims to use drones for delivering goods to rural
Commercial
A couple of years ago, Zipline created a national drone delivery system to ship blood and drugs to remote medical centers in Rwanda. Now it has developed what it claims is the world’s swiftest commercial delivery drone, with a top speed of 128 kilometers an hour (a hair shy
Commercial
Regulations in Russia aren’t as strict as in therest of the world, enabling drone pilot Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt, 2.3-pound craft to a staggering height of almost 33,000 feet. For comparison, a 747 has a maximum ceiling of just over 45,000 feet, but
Business
Commercial drone data company Skycatch, and DJI have extended their partnership to manufacture and deliver a fleet of 1,000 high-precision drones for Komatsu Smart Construction.
Commercial
Hubsan has launched a high-quality, affordable drone option -- the H501A+. Hubsan's innovative H501A+ model is the company's newest signature product. Hubsan offers a complete line of drones including FPV, Quadcopters, and racing drone versions for the drone enthusiast market sold directly through its website. Kevin
Commercial
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Stanford University’s Natural Gas Initiative have invited 11 organizations, covering 12 different technologies, to the controlled testing phase of the Mobile Monitoring Challenge (MMC), a competition to advance mobile methane monitoring technologies at oil and natural gas facilities Researchers and MMC cosponsors EDF and
Commercial
Ecologists Andrew Berdahl, a Santa Fe Institute fellow, Colin Torney of the University of Glasgow, and colleagues flew drones to capture footage of Dolphin and Union caribou, a Canadian herd, as the animals crossed from Victoria Island to the Canadian mainland in the last stage of their fall migration. Flying
Commercial
Thales, a global leader in air traffic management, has signed an agreement with NASA that will lead to more growth at the UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome. Thales will work with NASA to support efforts to establish a UAS traffic management system in the United States.
Commercial
Phase One Industrial, a global provider of medium format metric cameras and imaging solutions for aerial applications, announced that it has signed an agreement with Aerialtronics DV, a developer of end-to-end aerial data capture solutions. Together, these companies’ high-end products are opening up new opportunities in high-
Commercial
NEDO (The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), KDDI(a Japanese telecommunications operator), Terra Drone (a Japanese industrial drone service provider), SECOM(a Japanese security company) succeeded in the world’s first security verification experiments of multiple drones using 4G LTE mobile communication network at a wide-area facility.
Software
Using machine learning, planning and multi-agent technologies, Accelerated Dynamics is building a full-stack robot intelligence solution that is optimised for enterprise applications. It transforms drones, autonomous cars, satellite systems, unmanned boats into IoT devices that do not require human operators. The company is a successful start up, back
Commercial
A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology to fly into the containment vessels of the damaged units at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and assess conditions. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated (TEPCO Holdings) contracted SwRI to explore the use