Drone Focus

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 […]

An RQ-4D Phoenix UAV from Northrop Grumman Corporation completed a 20-hour non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from California to Sicily, where it joined the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) squadron on Nov. 12 at Sigonella Air Base. The air vehicle is the last of five NATO RQ-4D aircraft, completing deliveries to the Main Operating Base (MOB) of […]

For its flagship Gray Eagle UAV, the U.S. Army with lead contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has selected an anti-jam GPS system from Cobham Aerospace Connectivity. The MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed as an upgrade to the MQ-1 […]

The US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division acquired a Blue Water Maritime Logistics UAV prototype from Skyways to develop resupply efforts submarines and other ships over long distances using small UAVs. Demonstrations of long-range ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore cargo transport will soon get underway at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland, after customization of the […]

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 […]

Drone Autonomy for Bridge Inspection. The Newest Tool on the Inspector’s Belt. A Skydio 2 inspecting the underside of a bridge Before drones came into the picture, inspecting bridges was an expensive and dangerous activity. Most commonly, the primary piece of equipment to inspect a bridge is a snooper truck, which is a large, expensive […]

Mobile phones and other electronic devices made from an organic material that is thin, bendable and more powerful are now a step closer thanks to new research led by scientists at The Australian University (ANU). Mobile phones and other electronic devices made from an organic material that is thin, bendable and more powerful are now […]

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 […]

How AI and machine learning algorithms redefine utility inspections as society faces this pandemic. The following is a guest post by Jaro Uljanovs, Lead AI Developer and Data Scientist at Sharper Shape, specialists in automated industrial inspections. Artificial intelligence (AI) boasts a wide range of potential applications, across nearly every industry imaginable — healthcare, automotive, […]