Toyota Motor-affiliated supplier Jtekt has funded a venture developing a drone for airlifting cargo to hard-to-reach areas and disaster sites. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Drone Delivery Startup Zipline Boosts Valuation to $4.2 Billion
AI Weed-Killing Drones to Reduce Herbicide Use While Cutting Costs
For the past three years, Terry Aberhart has watched the spindly, fixed-wing drones zip across the big skies above his farm in Canada’s Saskatchewan province, testing a technology that could be the future of weeding. Fitted with an artificial intelligence system, the drones are designed by local startup Precision AI to spot, identify and kill the weeds without drenching the entire crop in chemicals. Continue reading
Guardian Agriculture’s Aircraft Becomes First eVTOL Authorized to Operate in the US
Guardian Agriculture, a respected developer of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) systems for commercial-scale sustainable farming, announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its aircraft nationwide. Continue reading
Skyports Drone Services Introduces Cash-to-Master Drone Deliveries in Singapore and Korea
Skyports Drone Services has announced the addition of Cash-to-Master (CTM) services to its repertoire of ship-to-shore services. Continue reading
AgEagle Gets 5-Year US Government Multiple Award Schedule Contract
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc., a provider of full stack flight hardware, sensors and software for commercial and government use, announced that it has been awarded a Multiple Award Schedule Contract (#47QSWA23D0050) by the General Services Administration, which is the centralized procurement arm of the federal government. Continue reading
SURVICE-Malloy Awarded US Navy Contract to Produce Unmanned TRV Aircraft
SURVICE Engineering, partnered with Malloy Aeronautics, has been awarded a production contract with the US Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office (PMA-263) to produce around 200 Tactical Resupply Vehicle (TRV) aircraft. Continue reading
TARMAC Aerosave and Donecle to Develop Drone Aircraft Inspections
French Aircraft storage, maintenance, and recycling firm TARMAC Aerosave, and Donecle, a manufacturer of drones specifically for aviation maintenance purposes, have signed an agreement to develop automated aircraft inspections. Continue reading