A Russian-made drone on its way to making a first parcel delivery crashed into a wall and crumbled to pieces in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude on Monday, shocking local residents and regional officials at the scene. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
SenseFly and Trimble Optimize Workflow for Geospatial Drone Operators
SenseFly is partnering with Trimble to optimize the drone mapping workflow for geospatial professionals. Continue reading
China Approves Drone-Based Package Delivery
SF Express, China’s biggest logistics firm, announced that subsidiary Fengyu Shuntu Technology received the first official permit in China to deliver packages via unmanned aerial vehicles, following a series of tests that began last June (link in Chinese). Continue reading
Zipline Launches World’s Fastest Commercial Delivery Drone
A couple of years ago, Zipline created a national drone delivery system to ship blood and drugs to remote medical centers in Rwanda. Now it has developed what it claims is the world’s swiftest commercial delivery drone, with a top speed of 128 kilometers an hour (a hair shy of 80 miles per hour). Continue reading
Drone’s Eye View from 33,000 Feet
Regulations in Russia aren’t as strict as in therest of the world, enabling drone pilot Denis Koryakin to fly his homebuilt, 2.3-pound craft to a staggering height of almost 33,000 feet. Continue reading
Skycatch to Deliver 1,000 Industrial Drones for Komatsu
Commercial drone data company Skycatch, and DJI have extended their partnership to manufacture and deliver a fleet of 1,000 high-precision drones for Komatsu Smart Construction. This represents the largest commercial drone order in history. Continue reading
Affordable Drone from Hubsan
Hubsan has launched a high-quality, affordable drone option — the H501A+. Hubsan’s innovative H501A+ model is the company’s newest signature product. Continue reading
12 Technologies to Compete in Methane Leak Detection Simulation
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Stanford University’s Natural Gas Initiative have invited 11 organizations, covering 12 different technologies, to the controlled testing phase of the Mobile Monitoring Challenge (MMC), a competition to advance mobile methane monitoring technologies at oil and natural gas facilities Continue reading