FlightWave Aerospace Systems, Inc., a California-based startup brings new capabilities to customers who need a sustained aerial presence in high-wind, maritime, or terrestrial missions. The company also announced an investment from Breakout Labs, the Thiel Foundation’s programme of support for deep technology companies. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Robotic Skies Raises Venture Capital Funding Round
Robotic Skies announced it has raised a round of venture capital financing. The investment round was led by Kickstart Seed Fund of Salt Lake City, Utah, and included participation by Sun Mountain Capital of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The capital will accelerate the expansion of the Robotic Skies maintenance network for high-end commercial unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
US Coast Guard Uses Drones to Expand its Reach
Unmanned aircraft do not have a long, storied history like the Coast Guard. But they already play a role in one of the Coast Guard’s earliest missions – guarding against illicit trade. Continue reading
First Offshore Drone Survey for Norway’s DNV GL
DNV GL surveyors have carried out the classification society’s first offshore drone survey on the semisubmersible vessel Safe Scandinavia in the North Sea. This 25,383 GT tender support vessel (TSV) is owned and operated by Prosafe, supporting Statoil’s drilling operations off the coast of Norway. Continue reading
Fixed-Wing, VTOL UAS Designed for Utility Inspections
ULC Robotics, Inc. is advancing the state-of-the-art in commercial utility industry aerial inspection after successfully flight testing a newly developed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle last week. Continue reading
Regulatory Framework for Dubai’s Flying Taxis
Within a matter of months that dilemma could become real. Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it will begin testing a two-seater autonomous flying taxi that within five years could be as familiar as the current terrestrial versions. Continue reading
Drone Lands on Walls Like a Bird
Designed by Createk Design Lab at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec,the Multimodal Autonomous Drone (S-MAD) can repeatedly perform autonomous landing and takeoffs from walls. Presented at Living Machines 2017, Stanford (Best Robotics Paper Award). Continue reading
Tracking Pythons in Everglades with Thermal Technology
Volaero UAV & Drones Holdings Corp., a Miami based Drone Tech Startup Company, has teamed up with Bill Booth Outdoors and Bruni Infrared to utilize its advanced drone imagery technologies to create solutions for the python issues in the Florida Everglades. Continue reading