90 yr-old Farmer Passes Drone Pilot Test in Japan

Mamoru Tanaka, left, pilots a drone as directed by an instructor in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture

A 90-year-old man who runs a farming business in this west Japan city obtained a proficiency certification for drone operations on December 10, and is also seeking qualifications to operate large agricultural drones by the spring of 2022. Continue reading →

DARPA OFFSET Swarms Take Flight in Final Field Experiment

Researchers, roboticists, and technologists deployed swarms of autonomous air and ground vehicles to test mission capabilities in the final field experiment (FX-6) of DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Continue reading →

UAV Navigation Achieves Real Time Operation Support from Spain to Australia

UAV Navigation recently performed remote support to one of their Australian customers using their Visionair CloudLink technical support tool. Using this software, UAV Navigation was able to monitor the client’s platform in real time during the flight carried out and confirm the gains that define the correct operation of the system and, therefore, of the platform. Continue reading →