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Teams from Swift Tactical Systems, in partnership with its Japanese counterpart, Swift-Xi, both subsidiaries of Swift Engineering, completed personnel search and rescue and animal identification missions as part of a contract with Okayama Prefecture in Japan. Continue reading
Using delivery drones in cities consumes up to ten times more energy than electric vans because they can only carry one parcel at a time and require frequent back and forth trips, a new study finds. Continue reading
Workhorse Group Inc. , an American technology company focused on providing sustainable and cost-effective electric vehicles to the last mile delivery sector, has expanded its patent portfolio through a recently filed provisional application, further protecting the HorseFly Unmanned Aerial System and several of the system’s key components and capabilities, including its ground control station, winch deliveries and aircraft structure. Continue reading
The Czech company ADVACAM and the Laboratory of Multi-robot Systems of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of CTU (MRS) in Prague have teamed up to develop a drone that will search independently for radiation. Continue reading
Drone delivery service provider Skyports has announced that it has been accepted into the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Regulatory Sandbox to trial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights in non-segregated airspace. Continue reading
The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Transport has just published the report of its performance audit to assess the effectiveness of FAA’s UAS registration system security controls, including controls to protect PII, and to determine whether FAA’s contingency planning limits the effects caused by the loss of DroneZone during disruptions of service. Continue reading
Immediately before lockdown, a team from Snowdonia Aerospace, with partners SwiftFlight Avionics, University of Manchester and the Welsh Ambulance Service, completed a successful flight demo that showed proof-of-concept for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) delivery of a defibrillator by drone to a remote, rural location that would be difficult to reach with an ambulance in a timely fashion. Continue reading
The AUVSI has just made a new interactive report available entitled ‘Analysis of Part 107 Waivers Granted by FAA‘