World’s biggest drone — a 28-ton autonomous behemoth

World’s biggest drone — a 28-ton autonomous behemoth

Alabama rocket startup Aevum just unveiled the world’s biggest drone — a 28-ton autonomous behemoth that may soon rocket US military satellites into orbit Jay Skylus, the CEO of autonomous launch startup Aevum, stands in front of a Ravn X rocket-launching drone. Aevum Aevum, a quiet, scrappy, and ambitious rocket-launch startup, unveiled the biggest drone […]

DRONAMICS Announces World’s First Cargo Droneport Network

DRONAMICS Announces World’s First Cargo Droneport Network

DRONAMICS, the world’s leading middle-mile cargo drone developer and operator, today unveiled the first 5 airports in its European network of cargo droneports. The DRONAMICS European Droneport Network is the world’s first cargo droneport network and includes private airports and airport groups operating more than 35 airports in 11 European countries, connecting 300 million […]

Two-thousand Plus Simultaneous Drones Position Themselves with GPS and GLONASS technology

Two-thousand Plus Simultaneous Drones Position Themselves with GPS and GLONASS technology

u-blox, a provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies, announced that it supplied the high-accuracy GNSS technology that made possible the world’s largest swarm of drones. The record-breaking simultaneous flight of 2,198 miniature UAVs was launched into the night sky over Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September 3. The ten-minute long drone show included a flying […]

Landing Smoothly

Landing Smoothly

New system employs a deep neural network to overcome the challenge of ground-effect turbulence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bfxPxg9rqk&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/FLLsG0S78ik Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent. This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy […]