JD Events, producers of Drone World Expo, has announced the launch of Commercial Drone Week, which will include meetings, conferences, networking, tours, demos and receptions to continue face to face conversations around its flagship event.
NASA Selects Black Swift for Volcano Ash Monitoring
NASA has awarded Black Swift Technologies, a specialized engineering firm, a contract to develop and deliver a purpose-built scientific platform to explore volcanoes in order to improve air traffic management systems and the accuracy of ashfall measurements. Continue reading
IBM Patents In-Flight Package Transfer During Drone Delivery
IBM has announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s home. Continue reading
WiBotic Gets $2.5 M New Funding for Wireless Power Solutions
WiBotic, a supplier of wireless power and battery intelligence solutions for the robotics industry, announced it has raised $2.5 million in a seed round. The new investment round is led by Tsing Capital, and includes investments from Comet Labs and Digi Labs as well as follow-on investments from W Fund, WRF Capital and Wisemont Capital. Continue reading
Russian Military Tests Anti-Drone Systems
The competitive trials of drone suppression systems took place at the range of UAV Tactical Center in Kolomna, Moscow Region, on April 27. Designer companies by turns interrupted operation of the military and civil drones. Continue reading
AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017 – Exclusive Speaker Interviews – Tyler Collins
We wanted to know more about some of the speakers and panelists at his year’s AUVSI EXPONENTIAL, which takes place May 8 – 11 in Dallas. Next up is Tyler Collins, VP of Airspace Services – LATAS at PrecisionHawk , who will be presenting a session on BVLOS and the FAA Pathfinder Program.
Tyler heads product development and partnership initiatives for PrecisionHawk’s LATAS platform, a low altitude traffic and airspace safety platform, which has received significant interest as a means to encourage widespread adoption of UAVs through the FAA Pathfinder Program and the NASA UTM project. Continue reading
Israeli Drones for Ireland Create Controversy
A fleet of high-powered ‘spy drones’ have been bought by the Irish Army from an Israeli defence company for €1.9m – despite claims the deal may damage Ireland’s ‘honest broker’ role in Middle East peacekeeping duties. Continue reading
Aurora Flight Sciences’ Electric VTOL Aircraft
Uber announced that it has selected Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network. The formal announcement of the initiative partners took place at Uber’s Elevate Summit in Dallas, Texas. Continue reading