Commercial
Swiss company Flyability is travelling home from Dubai $1 million richer after winning the "Drones for Good" international competition, on February 7. Gimball is described as the first "collision-tolerant drone," utilizing a rotating spherical outer cage that means it can be used safely in close
Commercial
Glenn Cullingford, chief pilot for the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, directs the unmanned aircraft, a fraction of the size of the helicopters and planes buzzing at Florida Keys Marathon Airport . "We're the first mosquito control district in the country to have this," Cullingford said. "
Testing
A restaurant chain in Singapore has demonstrated flying helicopter drones being used to deliver food and drinks from the kitchen, right to customers' tables. Timbre, a live music bar and restaurant chain that was the first restaurant in Singapore to roll out iPads at every table to speed up
Regulations
A Chinese national was interrogated by police after they seized a drone which he allegedly tried to fly at Chennai's popular Marina beach without permission. Police spotted Qiang Su, 27, business manager at BYD Electronics, Orgadam, flying a drone on Marina Beach at 4 pm. Qiang was having
Business
Bureau Veritas and Skeye BV have signed a preferred supplier ship related to inspection work executed with UAV’s.
VTOL
DJI recently an update that added some new safety features, including GPS geofencing that stops the drone flying about near sensitive places: like the White House. However, it has paused the roll-out of the update after a few reports that "unanticipated flight behaviour after updating" to Phantom
Commercial
If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week, you need to look four miles away, to a small briefing room in Arlington, Virginia. There, just 10 days earlier, officials from the US military, the
Commercial
When a team from MIT’s Senseable City Lab flew to Dubai this weekend to participate in Drones for Good, a contest hosted by the UAE government, they brought a swarm of five amphibious drones in tow. Their project, dubbed “Waterfly,” mimics a swarm of dragonflies. Each Frisbee-like device
Transport
Alibaba, the Chinese online marketplace, is conducting a three-day test to deliver packages using quadcopters within an hour. The initial scope of Alibaba’s experiment is small. The company’s online Taobao bazaar is inviting 450 shoppers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to try parcel deliveries by drones. They
Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration has granted eight more regulatory exemptions for commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, bringing the total number of exemption grants to 24. The agency has issued new exemptions to Total Safety U.S. Inc. for flare stack inspections, to Slugwear, Inc. (dba LikeonaTree Aerial)
Commercial
Even for the world’s biggest icebreaker, the best way through Arctic ice is to go around it. There’s an art to navigating an obstacle course of ice floes thick enough to smash a hole in a steel hull. Experienced seamen know how to suss out the softer spots.
Commercial
Puy du Fou has become the first theme park to introduce an ‘intelligent’ drone fleet to enhance its visitors’ experience. France’s second most-visited theme park (after Disneyland Paris) allows visitors to witness history being brought to life through 60+ shows – from the Vikings and Knights of the Round