Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS

Maryland High School Student Develops Spherical Video (VR) Live Streaming Drone

Photo: Capital Gazette

Darius James Lukas is a science, technology, engineering and math senior at South River High School. With classmates Andrew Loomis and Allison Bowman, Darius founded the drone company Thanics as part of their Capstone project for their Unmanned Aerial Systems class. They had to develop and deliver a quad-copter or drone with enhanced 360-degree camera capabilities that will be safe for most people to use and can live-stream and follows FAA rules and regulations. Continue reading →

Drones for Security and Beyond – Bogota August 22-24

ARTC, the Colombian Unmanned Aircraft Association, which represents over 1,000 professionals and companies that use UAVs in a commercial environment, has joined forces with the E+S+S International Security Fair in Bogota, to organise ‘Drones for Security and Beyond’, on August 22-24 , 2018.  Continue reading →

LG Uplus Enters Drone Business in Korea

LG Uplus vice chairman and CEO Kwon Young-soo

Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus will foster drone business as one of its new growth drivers by expanding its fledgling aerial robotics to a wide range of businesses in the public and private sectors, including transportation, logistics and safety inspections, powered by its nationwide wireless network.  Continue reading →

Cleaning Wind Turbine Blades by Drone

Hundreds of feet above a snow-covered field, a boxy black device covered in propellers hovers next to the enormous outstretched blade of a wind turbine. From a corner of the machine, a nozzle sprays a liquid across the surface of the blade in a rapid smooth zigzag motion like a rogue car wash in the sky. Continue reading →