Innovation & Future

U.S. Transportation Secretary, Elaine L. Chao, announced in August, 2020, that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $3.3 million in research, education, and training grants to universities. These universities comprise FAA’s Air Transportation Centre of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), which are  also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS, […]

Phase One Industrial, a world-leading provider of medium- and large-format metric cameras and imaging solutions for aerial applications, has signed an agreement with Acecore Technologies to start to supply scaleable drone platforms to third party developers. Acecore Technologies, based in The Netherlands, is a developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for cinema and

StoreDot, an Israeli drone start-up, has been able to reduce the charging time of drone battery to less than 5 minutes by using ultra-fast charging (UFC) technology, without the need for human intervention.  The battery technology uses the company’s custom-developed metalloid nanotechnology alloys with a very high diffusion and low resistance when the lithium ions

Botlink has received a major nationwide waiver for four years, from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to conduct drone operations over people (OOP). Botlink was founded in Fargo, N.D., with military pilots and engineers, for the purpose of safely sharing the benefits of drones. Botlink is a drone software and hardware development company that leads

Four years ago (2016) there was news of future development of a drone called, Mine Kafon Drone (MKD), that would be capable of mapping, detecting, and detonating landmines. In fact, the goal of the creators of this drone was not just to clear landmines in general, but to actually be able to clear the world