REIN‘s DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, has announced its collaboration with AeroVironment to offer insurance coverage options for the Quantix commercial drone platform. Continue reading
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Bell Team Selected for NASA UAS Demo in 2020
Bell’s Autonomous Pod Transport 70 utilizes a tail-sitting electric vertical take-off and landing configuration that is capable of rotation and translation in flight
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, has announced a cooperative agreement with NASA for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight demonstration in the National Airspace System (NAS) expected to be conducted in 2020.
USAF Asks Raytheon to Upgrade Electro-Optical AN/DAS-4 Multispectral Sensor
U.S. Air Force electro-optical surveillance experts needed next-generation multispectral targeting sensor systems for the MQ-9 Reaper attack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other reconnaissance aircraft. They found their solution from the Raytheon Co. Continue reading
Altiscope Releases Airbus’ UTM Roadmap
Altiscope, the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) group from A³ by Airbus focused on enabling the future of aviation, has released Blueprint for the Sky: The Roadmap for the Safe Integration of Autonomous Aircraft. The Blueprint represents months of careful analysis by Airbus of the future needs for the airspace, the widespread impact of its forthcoming changes, and the development of the tools required for its enablement. Continue reading
Sentera Gets $14M Series A Funding
Sentera, a Minneapolis-based digital agriculture technology provider, announces that it has raised an additional $14 million in Series A funding. A premier group of food, biosciences, and agriculture investment firms, Chicago-based S2G Ventures, New York-based Continental Grain Company, and Washington, DC-based Middleland Capital, lead Sentera’s new funding group. Continue reading
PrecisionHawk Acquires HAZON and InspecTools
PrecisionHawk, Inc., a provider of drone technology for the enterprise, has announced that it has purchased both HAZON, Inc. and InspecTools Inc. These businesses specialize in the delivery of inspection services and technology for the energy industry and bring demonstrated domain expertise to enable tighter integration between the collection and the analysis of drone data. Continue reading
BlueBird’s Dual-Hybrid (VTOL) Version of the ThunderB
BlueBird Aero Systems recently revealed a new VTOL Capability of its long range, long endurance ThunderB tactical UAS (~30Kg, 4m wing-span), only 2 months after exposing an exceptional Cargo Release Capability of the ThunderB UAV at Eurosatory 2018. Continue reading
Robotic Herding of a Flock of Birds Using Drones
Researchers in Korea have made a new algorithm for enabling a single robotic unmanned aerial vehicle to herd a flock of birds away from a designated airspace. This novel approach allows a single autonomous quadrotor drone to herd an entire flock of birds away without breaking their formation. Continue reading