Aerial Photography
GoPro has unveiled the long-awaited and much-anticipated Karma multirotor drone.GoPro’s founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman, introduced the Karma drone, along with a new line of HERO5 cameras and cloud-based software, to international press at the base of Squaw Valley, CA, near Lake Tahoe. “With these new products, we’
Transport
When Amazon eventually starts delivering items via drone, the company wants the option to land its unmanned aircrafts on trucks or buses for a portion of the journey, a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows. The application, filed by executives with Amazon’s Prime Air division
Commercial
Inspecting infrastructure assets like bridges and dams is crucial to their maintenance, but it’s easier said than done. Since these structures are large, complex, and often out of the way, traditional methods like terrestrial LiDAR can be slow, expensive, and difficult to use. Romagna Aqua, which is responsible for
Commercial
This video presents an autonomous 250 g quadrotor performing aggressive maneuvers using a qualcomm snapdragon flight and relying only on on-board computation and sensor capabilities. The control planning and estimation tasks are solved based on the information provided by a single camera and an IMU. We show aggressive trajectories around
Regulations
As drones continue to take the world by a storm, key stakeholders are warning that the safety risks of drone operations may be seriously underestimated and deserve urgent attention. A Joint Statement, signed by the entire spectrum of manned aviation stakeholders – from pilots to airlines, helicopter operators to air traffic
Events
From discussions on the Realities of Drone Delivery to a forum on Finding Funding: The VC Community Speaks, Drone World Expo taking place November 15-16 at the San Jose Convention Center will offer something for everyone interested in the use of drones for commercial purposes. Of the speakers, there are
Commercial
Garuda Robotics, a provider of end-to-end enterprise robotics solutions, has announced the launch of Garuda TowerSight, a complete UAV system for cell tower surveys.The TowerSight system improves the efficiency and safety of tower surveys by enabling surveyors to verify line-of-sight (LOS) from new tower sites to existing towers without
Commercial
Drones could cut the cost of thermographic PV panel inspections to between €1,800 and €2,750 a day, covering two hectares an hour, Solarplaza has learned. The cost is a typical daily rate for a pilot and a sensor operator and drone inspections from a height of 15 metres
Commercial
After over a year of careful research and development, a New Zealand resident has achieved a long sought after goal. On Saturday, September 10th, Tim Vincent flew an RPFlightSystems, Inc. Vigilant C1 aircraft for a total of 425 kilometers on a single battery pack. Tim thought, and still thinks the
Commercial
Chinese manufacturer Skye Intelligence, will soon unveil Orbit - a hands-free, social sharing drone. Hands-free auto-follow Orbit possesses three tracking technologies - Global Navigation Satellite System, Synchronous GPS Image Tracking, and automated optical pixel-tracking, which makes it the world’s most precise auto-follow drone. ‘Follow Me’ mode enables hands-free control
Commercial
Australian technology company Propeller Aero has announced the launch of AeroPoints: smart ground control points that makes it easy for anyone to capture survey-accurate mapping using drones. AeroPoints’ patent-pending technology provides a simple solution to one of the major roadblocks to widespread commercial drone adoption: accuracy. It’s another step
Commercial
Kespry, which designs automated drone systems for commercial use, has announced the new Kespry Drone 2.0. The new lighter-weight drone flies 2X as long, covers 2X the ground area, and has 2X the wind resilience, due to the new airframe, battery, and flight system improvements.Based on requests from