On Friday the FAA granted Section 333 authorization for commercial use of 3DR drones to two companies, BNSF Railway and Build Imagery. The exemptions will not only allow these companies to use 3DR drones for business purposes, but will also...
Air Shepherd uses drones and computers to watch over elephants and rhinos the same way a shepherd protects his sheep. The drones in Africa are decked out with normal and infrared cameras that see where the animals — and the...
What will drive traffic to campaign websites this cycle, according to digital consultants, is video. But they aren’t talking about B-roll of the candidate and his family strolling through a bucolic field. It has to be compelling footage. It has...
An Australian university is using heat seeking drones to monitor the population of koalas and to aid their conservation. For Full Story Click Here
After an aviation safety inspector in the FAA’s Tampa office sent a legal notice to a man regarding his “use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (aka drone) for commercial purposes” earlier this week for posting drone footage to YouTube ,...
Three categories of civil drone should be created to regulate the unmanned aerial vehicles now used in everything from filming to farming and parcel deliveries, Europe's aviation safety body has proposed. The proposals would allow the new industry to grow while...
An Israeli startup wants to make adding new features to your drone as easy as downloading apps from an app store. The company, called Percepto, is currently raising funds on Indiegogo. Percepto will offer a camera that can be mounted...
UAS Directions, a unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, has designed a 3D, multi-rotor uni-body platform that eliminates the need for exposed propellers. Aaron Weller, founder of UAS Directions, expects public safety concerns to continue to grow over multi-rotor airframes, which...
Over the last two years DJI has emerged as the world's most popular consumer drone maker, at least by revenue. And The Verge has learned that the company is currently in talks with Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms to...
