Equinor Ventures and the Norweigan company, DNV, join in as owners make a new investment in Scout Drone Inspection (ScoutDI) round of 27.5 million Norwegian kroner or $3.2 million dollars to develop its specialized drones and related technologies further. Equinor Ventures and DNV joined together with existing shareholders, including Investinor and CoFounder, as well as […]
U.S. Drone Manufacturer Skyfish Receives $20 Million in Funding! Investment in drone companies shifts as drone technology matures. In fact, U.S. drone manufacturer, Skyfish, announced $20 million in additional funding, which is an indication that investment in drone companies is changing to reward companies that are providing advanced technology for an already established sector. The […]
South Carolina switches to deploying drones for nuclear waste site inspection at Savannah River Site (SRS). Contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, has relieved employees from manually inspecting cleanup sites by turning to camera-mounted drones to conduct inspections of nuclear waste sites at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This shift was […]
Japan Infrastructure Waymark (JIW) — a bridge inspection specialist — grows bridge inspection business 70-fold by using Skydio. This is timely because Japan has a network of approximately 714,000 bridges that are due for inspection. After a careful testing process that evaluated several different company drones, the JIW team chose AI-enhanced Skydio. According to JIW, […]
EagleView & Skydio join an exclusive property inspection partnership for automated residential roof inspection with drones, which leverages AI autonomous drone technology to boost virtual inspection quality to property inspections, while lowering costs. It is estimated that this partnership may be the largest commercial drone contract ever! A press release explained: “This is part of […]
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 […]
The Cranfield Airport in the U.K. has deployed automated drones to inspect its runway by utilizing “drone-in-a-box” technology to enable routine inspections to take place with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be automatically deployed, recovered and recharged without the need for an operator. This is the first time that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have […]
As the development and use of drones continues is on a rapid rise, so is the diversity of the commercial use of drones, whether for recreational enjoyment and/or in the business sector. The following are some of the common uses already, such as agricultural use, geo-mapping, inspection of various infrastructures, parcel delivery, professional aerial photography, […]
There is an impressive increase in the application of drone technology in the energy sector. One example is Oklahoma Gas and Electric, which plans to deploy several multi-rotor inspection drones equipped with sensors and hi-resolution cameras, to expedite post-storm assessments and pre-plan power line and wind turbine maintenance. The energy sector continues to find new […]
Although drones are hardly new to the power industry in our country, power lines stringing is a fairly new application, one that offers substantial savings in terms of time and money. This could change the way power companies work permanently. Matt Dunlevy founded SkyScopes as a spinoff while teaching a class at the business college […]