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FPT Industrial and Forvola broke the Guinness World Records for the heaviest payload lifted by a drone during FPT Industrial’s Tech Day event in Turin, Italy, on November 23rd. Forvola’s megadrone, with its 16 propellers, lifted a box full of FPT Industrial spare parts weighing 101 kg to a height of almost 1.5 meters for more than one minute and three seconds. Continue reading
Royal Dutch Shell PLC is testing how artificial intelligence-enabled drones could help prevent costly maintenance problems on expensive equipment while improving worker safety, said Jay Crotts, the oil company’s executive vice president and global chief information officer. Beginning early next year, the company will deploy several drones in a proof-of-concept project at the Shell Technology Center in Houston, which encompasses 1.2 million square feet and 44 buildings of laboratory and office space. Continue reading
Passengers at one of the UK’s busiest airports are experiencing further flight disruption after drones were seen over the airfield. Gatwick’s runway remains closed after two of the devices were seen nearby, sparking a string of delays and diversions on Wednesday evening. Continue reading
Terra Drone South Africa has announced its corporation with Sibanye Stillwater and had conducted the demonstration aimed to improve mining solutions. Continue reading
Vodafone has completed the first ever UK drone delivery over a 4G mobile network, rather than a radio link, using a portable 4G router. A Christmas drone dressed up as a sleigh made a short 800-metre flight carrying festive treats to Portland Bill coast watch, on the Dorset coast. Continue reading
Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, assisted from the air in the firefight against the Camp Fire in Northern California, now deemed the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in California’s history. Continue reading
On November 29, the SKYF team presented the world’s biggest multi-rotor drone in Tatarstan, Russia. The guests of the event witnessed the demo flights of two modifications of the machine, SKYF CARGO and SKYF AGRO. Continue reading
A Melbourne-based startup founded by a robotics engineer and former RAAF pilot has bagged world-first commercial contracts to ship vaccines via drone delivery for international aid. Continue reading