Emesent is a drone autonomy company which has completed an autonomous underground flight with two DJI Matrice 300, which makes it possible to successfully find its way in two Australian mines for the first time ever. The Australian mines were testing Emesent’s 3D LIDAR-based SLAM technology system that enables drones to fly inside mines where […]
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In the middle of August, 2020, the U.S. DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT announced that Teal Drones, a company founded by George Matus in 2014, was accepted as a part of a very exclusive group of merely five drone companies. These five companies were approved to provide advanced, high-tech remote, portable drones to the U.S. Department of
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Seattle-based Amazon, the giant online shopping giant, won Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones on August 31, 2020. This means getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality — as it opens the doors to a major transformation in the ways
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Dragonfly is a NASA mission that delivers a rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan. It is a “relocatable lander” drone designed to fly on Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons, which is considered to be a fairly conducive place to fly a drone. The reason for choosing Titan is due to the fact that its atmosphere
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Zing, a Florida-based end-to-end drone delivery platform which builds autonomous flight software and aerial logistics hardware, joins BEYOND to develop and scale their drone delivery operations. This joint venture will enable rapid and eco-friendly drone delivery to every suburban neighborhood throughout the world. This platform allows licensed drone pilots from anywhere in the country to
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Aevum, Inc., an Alabama upstart, announced on December 4, 2020, that its largest drone — Ravn X — is the world’s largest drone, and that it will serve as a rocket launch vehicle for a two-stage rocket that would place low-earth orbit satellites in space. The vehicle is 80 feet long with a wingspan of
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) released footage of the unexpected collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico on December 3, 2020. The video, which captured the tragic event on December 1, shows the actual moment when the support cables snapped and caused the massive 900-ton platform to be suspended above Arecibo to fall onto
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Sony starts its own drone company, Airpeak, which will have a new drone to fly Alpha cameras. The announcement by the company stated, “Sony Corporation today announced that it has launched a new project for drones in the field of AI robotics.”* Sony explained its aspirations: “Sony has assigned the ‘Airpeak’ brand to reflect its
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Global drone use continues to grow rapidly, according to the World Economic Forum. In fact, there is unlimited potential for future growth, as more drones are deployed to address issues related to COVID-19. The WEF report — “Global Technology Governance Report 2021: Harnessing Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in a COVID-19 World” — shows a significant
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Reforestation company, DroneSeed — a company that uses fleets of drones to reforest areas burned in wildfires — received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its drones to operate Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), in October, 2020. This approval means the company can begin to reforest large areas over larger distances than
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