News
DHL was the first parcel service provider in the world to directly integrate a parcelcopter logistically into its delivery chain but has reportedly discontinued the Parcelcopter project. In response to a question from WELT AM SONNTAG, DHL spokesman Alexander Edenhofer said: " We are not continuing the parcel copter project
Commercial
Wingtra has launched WingtraOne GEN II—a next-generation VTOL drone with an oblique payload and advanced reliability algorithms. After six years in development and 100'000 flights, Wingtra is launching WingtraOne GEN II, a next-generation VTOL drone that offers industrial reliability and mapping versatility with a new oblique camera
First Responders
Graham Burton from Pontypridd is the mastermind behind the Facebook group called Drone SAR for Lost Dogs UK which has helped locate thousands of lost pets. He started the group in 2017 after hearing of a lady in Devon who was being asked for £800 per day from a drone
BVLOS
senseFly, a global supplier of fixed-wing mapping drones – in collaboration with drone engineering and consulting specialists AL Drones and geotechnology company Santiago & Cintra announced that the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has approved Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights to be carried out in Brazil using senseFly’s
Commercial
UK-based startup Ellipsis Earth believes it can help to start cleaning it up plastic pollution. Using drones fitted with cameras, Ellipsis maps the location of plastic pollution. Through computer software and image recognition, it's then able to identify the type of plastic, its size, and in some cases,
News
The Pentagon-developed camera drones are more expensive and less capable than the Chinese-made ones that they were supposed to replace, according to an internal US government memorandum seen by the Financial Times. The memorandum from officials from the Department of the Interior, which runs the largest fleet of unmanned civilian
Business
Nordic Unmanned has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares the leading German drone developer and manufacturer AirRobot. The acquisition secures patented world-leading last-mile unmanned delivery technology and extends the product and customer portfolio within the Defense & Security business area. "The acquisition of AirRobot gives
News
Plymouth Rock Technologies Inc., a developer of detection apparatus and unmanned technologies, has announced a contract for the sale and delivery of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to perform critical environmental operations in Madagascar. At the beginning of 2019, a team of conservationists from Durrell,
Business
GE and Microdrones have entered into a worldwide licensing partnership, where Microdrones will bring the GE industrial drone line to market globally, providing professionals access to powerful aerial surveying technology that will enable them to work more efficiently, accurately, safely and profitably. The GE industrial drone line brings together two
Commercial
American Robotics, a commercial developer of fully-automated drone systems, has announced that Stockpile Reports, a solutions provider for the bulk materials industry serving over 300 companies in 48 countries, selected American Robotics’ Scout System to build out its automated drone program. With American Robotics’ first-of-its-kind FAA approvals to operate without
First Responders
With the assistance of a control center on the ground, a drone able to locate missing people - even in densely forested areas – had attracted a great deal of attention. The Institute for Computer Graphics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, has now gone one step further, creating a
Construction
Acecore Technologies, a manufacturer of professional grade UAVs for data collection and surveillance markets, introduces a new commercial UAV: the Zoe Zetona