The work on the Altius heavy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a combat load of up to two tons is planned to be completed within a year, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the information through its Facebook page. Continue reading
Ultra Low Power Deep-Learning-powered Autonomous Nano Drones
A team of computer scientists have built the smallest completely autonomous nano-drone that can control itself without the need for a human guidance. Although computer vision has improved rapidly thanks to machine learning and AI, it remains difficult to deploy algorithms on devices like drones due to memory, bandwidth and power constraints. Continue reading
Automatic Classification of Trees with UAV RGB Images and Deep Learning
Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing of forests, and deep learning has attracted attention for its ability concerning machine vision. Continue reading
Croatia Relaxes Drone Laws
Drones and companies using drones for video and photo footage has been a boom business is Croatia over the past few years. However, due to extremely tight restrictions put in place by the Croatian Civil Aviation Agency (CCAA) more and more calls have been coming from drone users to relax some of these rules. Continue reading
Knight Hawk Law Enforcement UAV from K2
K2 Unmanned Systems, LLC, a U.S. commercial drone manufacturer, flight ops and training company, has announced the release of the first American made Law Enforcement tactical drone, the Knight Hawk. Continue reading
Australia Awards Development Contract for Stoprotor
Unmanned Aerial Systems Pty Ltd was awarded A$293,000 (USD 220,00) through the Defence Innovation Hub to combine features of a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft in order to increase performance, efficiency and capability. Continue reading
Half Jet Ski and Half Plane
This aircraft is half jet ski and half plane. The FlyNano combines marine and aviation technology, creating the lightweight plane that only weighs 70kg. Continue reading
NASA and Amazon Turn to France for UTM Tests
NASA and Amazon.com Inc. are tapping experts in France to figure out how to coordinate drone traffic, bolstering the country’s role as a hub for evolving regulation of unmanned aircraft. Continue reading






