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
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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
Drones Study Caribou Migration
Ecologists Andrew Berdahl, a Santa Fe Institute fellow, Colin Torney of the University of Glasgow, and colleagues flew drones to capture footage of Dolphin and Union caribou, a Canadian herd, as the animals crossed from Victoria Island to the Canadian mainland in the last stage of their fall migration. Continue reading
Thales to Work with NASA at Rome UAS Test Site
Thales, a global leader in air traffic management, has signed an agreement with NASA that will lead to more growth at the UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome. Continue reading
Phase One Industrial and Aerialtronics to Partner
Phase One Industrial, a global provider of medium format metric cameras and imaging solutions for aerial applications, announced that it has signed an agreement with Aerialtronics DV, a developer of end-to-end aerial data capture solutions. Together, these companies’ high-end products are opening up new opportunities in high-accuracy mapping and inspection markets. Continue reading
World’s First Wide-Area Security with Multiple Autonomous Flying Drones Using 4G LTE
NEDO (The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), KDDI(a Japanese telecommunications operator), Terra Drone (a Japanese industrial drone service provider), SECOM(a Japanese security company) succeeded in the world’s first security verification experiments of multiple drones using 4G LTE mobile communication network at a wide-area facility. Continue reading
A.I. Mission Learning for Swarm Management System
Using machine learning, planning and multi-agent technologies, Accelerated Dynamics is building a full-stack robot intelligence solution that is optimised for enterprise applications. It transforms drones, autonomous cars, satellite systems, unmanned boats into IoT devices that do not require human operators. Continue reading





