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
Testing
Turkish Aerospace Industries has begun flight testing of the Block B variant of its Anka medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air vehicle, local news sources have reported. A $300 million order for ten of the type in 2013 saw the Turkish air force become the first customer for the UAV. These will
Testing
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 will
Testing
CybAero received an order from China Customs for three systems in January 2014. These systems are to be stationed on three new vessels China Customs will be commissioning in 2015. CybAero commenced factory testing on the first system on February 2nd. The purpose of the factory testing is to verify
Testing
The first full-size model of the Chirok (Teal) reconnaissance and strike drone is preparing for test flights. It was introduced last year at the Innoprom Expo on a 1:5 scale in Yekaterinburg. Now the full-size model is ready, sporting a wingspan of 10 meters. The Chirok is getting ready
Testing
PrecisionHawk, of Raleigh, North Carolina, is testing a water sampling drone with some clients in the oil industry. It takes the form of a seaplane and has a pump mounted on its pontoons that can handle even viscous swampwater thick with bugs, mud, or algae. The water is sucked into
Testing
It began life as a hydrogen-fuelled, high-altitude unmanned aircraft but evolved into a diesel-powered platform designed to fly at medium altitude for five days and promising dramatically reduced operating costs compared with today’s Predator-class UAVs. Now that Aurora Flight Sciences’ Orion has shown its ultra-long-endurance potential, the company has
Testing
DJI has issued a firmware update to owners of the brand new Inspire 1, a drone that caught the industry’s attention last year for its filming abilities and futuristic form.Some of the drones’ first users experienced fly aways and crashes, turning what might be an innocuous bug in
Inspections
Finnish Energy Industries and Sharper Shape demonstrated drones with advanced sensors in public test flights as part of a research project conducted with the Electricity Research Pool. The robotic copter is equipped with a laser scanner, cameras and aviation safety systems and has the capability for long distance BVLOS (Beyond
Transport
GeoPost, the express delivery arm of French mail service La Poste, has now released a video of drone delivery testing at the Centre d'Etudes et d'Essais pour Modèles Autonomes (CEEMA) in September. As part of its ongoing GeoDrone project, GeoPost partnered with Atechsys to develop an
Testing
Propulsion
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Last week, Gizmag interviewed Dr. Alexander Shkolnik, President and CEO of LiquidPiston,