In the latest sign of the importance of its drone program, Amazon.com Inc. has hired the former number-two executive at the Air Line Pilots Association to help with the project. Sean Cassidy, an Alaska Air Group Inc. pilot and former...
DroneDeploy, a start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for commercial drone operations, announced today that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Emergence Capital, with participation from previous investors SoftTech, DataCollective and Angelpad. The investment...
ARPA’s latest drone program just took a turn for the better. The Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) is designed as a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) flyer for the U.S. Navy. Like their avian namesake, TERN will be a sea-based...
Electricity firm Commonwealth Edison, based in Illinois, has received permission from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to use drones for inspecting equipment, another step in the pilot-less aircraft becoming a mainstream feature of modern technology. For Full Story Click Here...
Why ship hardware to space when we can just culture it on arrival? NASA is working on a prototype drone that will be able to survey Mars from a modest altitude. But what if instead of shipping a drone to...
By copying the wing anatomy of birds and bats, the researchers designed a mechanism to allow their flying robot to squeeze between obstacles and recover from impacts. For Full Story Click Here
Top-secret filming on the HBO fantasy epic has been protected by a no-fly zone over the set in Northern Ireland. If you thought the main airborne threat in Game of Thrones came from Daenerys Targaryen’s troublesome dragons, think again. Drones...
Recent developments in European aviation regulations mean that innovators like Amazon, Google and DHL will likely find a more permissive environment in Europe than in America. That environment makes it increasingly likely that Amazon and their competitor’s first delivery drone flights...
3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of DroneKit, its open-source API for writing drone apps. Because 3D Robotics has always taken a platform approach, DroneKit will work with any drone that uses its APM autopilot (and...
