Tag Archives: drones

AirAsia Launches Urban Drone Delivery Sandbox

Front row: Dzuleira Abu Bakar, MaGIC CEO with Pete Chareonwongsak, Teleport CEO at the MOU ceremony. Back row from left: Ir Dr Siti Hamisah Tapsir, Secretary General, Mosti, Khairy Jamaluddin, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia Group

Teleport, the logistics venture of airasia Digital, has partnered with Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC), the Lead Secretariat of the National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS), to launch the Urban Drone Delivery Sandbox and develop a long-term viability of urban drone delivery service. Continue reading →

IAI and KAI Sign MOU for Manned & Unmanned Teaming Systems

KAI & IAI teams during the MOU signing

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) for collaboration in which the companies will offer the Republic of Korea (ROK) military forces with unmanned Loitering Munitions systems.  Continue reading →

Flying Drone Blanket for Future Cities

International design and innovation studio CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati is collaborating with the drone company Flyfire to prototype a new system for connecting and managing large swarms of drones. The new system revolves around a mesh – a “Flying Drone Blanket” that fits inside a suitcase – that allows fleets of quadcopters to take off simultaneously. Continue reading →

MIT Researchers’ New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones

Insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insects’ agility. Continue reading →