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New Revolutionary Drone Disinfectant Technology From Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion debuts a revolutionary — state-of-the-art — disinfectant technology to provide safety-first approaches to large-scale facility reopenings for large indoor and outdoor facilities and arenas. Perpetual Motion is a new company founded by commercial cleaning veterans Scott Thornton, president, and Jimmy Petrick, chief operating officer, who address disinfecting protocol shortcomings in the wake of […]

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Drones Conduct Automated Inspections At Cranfield Airport

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

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$3.3 Million In Seven Drone Grants to Universities

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,

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Acecore To Provide Scalable Drone Platforms To Devs

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

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WiBotic is Bringing Wireless/Autonomous Drone Charging To U.S.

WiBotic has secured FCC approval of $5.7 million in funding to enable it to expand its wireless charging technology which will provide as much as 300 watts of power to equipped devices. This approval is a first of its kind, which makes it possible for robots and drones to be charged wirelessly and be charged

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A Drone Battery That Charges In Less Than 5 Minutes

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

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New York Tests Delivery And Passenger Drones

New York county is exploring delivery and passenger drones from an investment in research of almost $1 million from NASA. Oneida County was awarded $897,000 by the nation’s top aeronautic agency, to develop Advanced Air Mobility at the New York UAS Test Site (Griffiss International Airport). According to a county spokesperson, “The goal of the

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EHang to Test Urban Air Mobility In Austria

EHang is considered the world’s leading autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) platform and continues to expand its implementation of urban air mobility (UAM) in Europe by their latest pilot city partnership with Linz, Austria. EHang is  joined by aerospace solutions company, FACC and LINZ AG, a multi-utility provider, which have proven expertise in public transportation and

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KnackForge and FIRST iZ Partner To Develop Autonomous Drone Solution

KnackForge is a technology firm based in Texas which partnered with drone company FIRST iZ to release a patent-pending UAS system, which will deploy drones autonomously by 911 operators.  They will do so by leveraging KnackForge’s control systems’ hardware and software for the FIRST Port ecosystem — an autonomous landing and take-off drone system. It

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Botlink Scores Major Nationwide Waiver From FAA

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

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