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Mrinal Pai (left) and Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy in their Bengaluru office
Skylark Drones, an Indian drone platform company, announced that it has secured USD $3 million in a pre-series A funding round to strengthen its product offerings and fuel international expansion. The funding round was co-led by investors InfoEdge Ventures and IAN Fund with participation from AdvantEdge Founders, Fowler Westrup, Redstart Labs, IKP and Vimson group. Continue reading
Zipline has raised $250 million in new funding to help us accelerate the development of a new model for instant logistics. Continue reading
On 14th June 2021, FlyingBasket’s remotely piloted multicopter FB3, equipped with an automatic cargo hook, transported radio equipment weighing up to 80 kgs across a canyon in Davos Wiesen, Jenisberg, in a pilot mission for a Swiss service provider cablex. Continue reading
Bayraktar TB2
An additional budget of more than 8 million Euros was allocated for the priority project of the Albanian Ministry of Defense for the purchase of UAVs, “within the scope of the agreement with Turkey and measures to increase territorial control and national security”. Continue reading
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) though its ELTA Systems group is delivering dozens of Drone Guard (CUAS) systems to a country* in South Asia in a deal, worth tens of millions of dollars (USD). Continue reading
An emerging technology combining a drone with a highly sensitive gamma-ray detector will be deployed in coming months to monitor radiation at contaminated uranium legacy sites in Central Asia. These sites are former uranium mining and processing areas in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and this advanced drone technology will support the safe and secure monitoring of radiation levels at these sites. Continue reading
An air ambulance helicopter came within yards of colliding with a drone over London as it flew a critically-ill patient to hospital. The remote-controlled craft hovered just below the chopper as it circled above the Royal London Hospital, a report has revealed. Continue reading
Vivo has just patented drone-phone, or, as Vivo currently calls it, a “device shell with flight camera“, which appears to be exactly what this sounds like: a smartphone chassis designed to accommodate its very own mini-drone. Continue reading