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10/12/2016

And so it begins....

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A PAIR of Kurd fighters were killed and two French special forces soldiers badly injured when ISIS used a DRONE packed with explosives to attack them, it has been reported. The French task force is…

09/21/2016

Is it snowing yet?!!

(Jackson, Wyo.) - Videos like this have us thinking, "Do I really live in this magical place?"Yes, we do and this video will get you seriously stoked for the snow to fall. Taken entirely with a DJI Phantom 3 Pro drone, the video titled "Lifted" was published by Higher Expectations Productions y...

09/20/2016

The long-awaited GoPro Karma is out. Here's an interesting take on the new product.

And here's an interesting paragraph:

"By now the secret is out. Karma isn't just a drone. It's a package that includes a quadcopter, a stabilizing handheld grip (that's also wearable) plus a touchscreen controller and a backpack (that doubles as a launch pad!). The camera stabilizer is removable and can be placed into the handheld, a party trick that makes Karma a ground-based stabilizer as well as a drone."

What are your thoughts?

GoPro's future looks a little more stable.

09/05/2016

Whoa! Handling a 40-foot container?! Is this a realistic goal or pie in the sky? Since the consequences of a failure are high (no one wants a fully laden container dropped on a house or a school bus!) will this be restricted to only very remote uses?

The Modal is a logistics drone designed to move empty shipping containers by lifting them in the air and carrying them over short distances

09/02/2016

Thought-provoking.

From the article: “There are really no technological breakthroughs that are required,” Russell, the computer science professor, told me. “Every one of the component technology is available in some form commercially … It’s really a matter of just how much resources are invested in it.”

Is the rush into developing and deploying technologies cheap drones for commercial uses blinding us to the potential dangers?

09/01/2016

$3.4 billion ... that's a LOT of tacos!

In Valour Consultancy’s recently published study, “The Future of Commercial and Industrial UAVs”, sales of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used for commercial and enterprise purposes will be worth $3.4 billion by the end of 2016. The popular hobbyist market is become a “must-have” tool for a number…

08/31/2016

Congrats to DroneDeploy! Now it's time to go spend it all!

A San Francisco-based startup called DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding to grow their drone data management platform. The drone tech..

08/30/2016

Anyone holding a Part 107 party?

It’s all kicking off ahead of the FAA press conference this morning. Find it here https://www.faa.gov/uas/request_waiver/ Obviously, you can’t apply for a waiver until you have your personal pilot paperwork sorted. The big list of things that require a waiver below. The good news for farm drones is…

08/29/2016

Drones are useful for so many reasons!

Over the weekend of Friday, 12 to Sunday, 14 August, officers from the Caledonian Neighbourhoods Policing Team and the Met’s Special Constabulary carried out patrols in the area of the prison as part of Operation Airborne. Operation Airborne has been set up to deter and catch offenders attempting to...

08/26/2016

Ford going straight from Level 2 to Level 4 by 2021?!! What are the implications for the drone industry. Will drone be leaders or followers in developing AND deploying a fully autonomous solution? What to do you think?

Ford vehicles in the future will either have a range of assistance features or be driverless.

08/25/2016

Just how big is the field of robotics? Actually the more interesting question is how big the field is going to become. And drones are part of that ecosystem.

The influential non-profit rates these technologies alongside the PC, the internet, and smartphones in terms of their potential to transform financial...

08/24/2016

Hah! We love this!

What do you do with your old Game Boy? Some of us try and boot it up for the first time in decades, while others look at this brick that we played with in our childhood and make something of it.