News
Airbus has picked Wyndham airport, located southeast of Wyndham in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, as the location for testing its cutting edge high-altitude solar-powered drones. Wyndham will be the world’s first operational site for launching and recovering the Zephyr S drones which are classed as High Altitude
News
For a long time, surveillance has been known as an effective deterrent of crime. this notion has become ever more prevalent in an age with more and more cameras, weather they’re in our pockets, or in the air. Police and other governmental agencies have begun employing drones to be
Transport
Launching at Singapore port’s Marina South Pier in quarter three 2018, Wilhelmsen Ships Service and Airbus will be piloting the delivery of spare parts, documents, water test kits and 3D printed consumables via Airbus’ Skyways unmanned air system (UAS) to vessels at anchorage. With the signing of an MOU
Payloads
Shilat Optronics - an electro-optics company that offers several proprietary technologies for defense and homeland security applications - will launch two innovative night vision products at EUROSATORY 2018. The company's night cooled thermal camera and day payload is an advanced observation system that can be mounted on a
Commercial
ING Robotic Aviation Inc. has been selected to fly an extensive series of Beyond-Visual- Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) RPAS missions in support of Canadian Oil Sands operations. These missions will be undertaken within a safe flight regime approved and monitored by Transport Canada (TC) as part of the TC BVLOS Pilot Project
Business
Verity Studios AG, the global leader in indoor drone technology, announced that it has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, making Verity the world’s most well-funded company in the rapidly emerging commercial indoor drone market. Fontinalis Partners, a venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobility technologies,
Video
Larry Page-backed Kitty Hawk has unveiled its first commercial vehicle, Flyer. CNNMoney's Rachel Crane took it for a spin. Led by Sikorsky prize winner and Guinness world record holder Todd Reichert, the team has spent countless hours meticulously designing, building and testing Kitty Hawk’s first personal flying
Military
A new photo has surfaced that appears to show a full-sized 'Dark Sword' UCAV. The concept has been talked about and shown in renderings and models for over a decade and a sub-scale remote controlled demonstrator was supposedly flown as well. But this is the first time evidence
Commercial
For more than 2 years in Paris, a team of passionate engineers have been designing ANAFI: a drone with new capabilities. For the development of this new-generation drone, Parrot has gone into a start-up mode by mobilizing the entire company and taking a new step for the drone industry. Parrot
Commercial
Shenzhen JTT company announced a new industrial drone "Spider C85" during a conference which was held recently in Shenzhen. More than 200 domestic and foreign industry leaders, customers, guests, agents and media were present. In the conference, several presenters analyzed the industrial drone business in detail, including the
C-UAS
ThirdEye Systems Ltd - an innovator in the field of robotic security systems - will present its passive drone detection platform, Meduza, for the first time at EUROSATORY 2018. Based on on-the-fly, real-time thermal computer vision algorithms, Meduza can be installed as a stand-alone unit or as a complementary system
Military
FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced the Black Hornet 3 nano-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for use by global militaries, government agencies, and first responders. The Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) is already the world’s smallest combat-proven nano-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), and FLIR’s next generation Black Hornet 3 nano-UAV