Monthly Archives: January 2017

LiDAR sensors and drones go together like PB&J and an industry report paints a rosy picture for both industries. “Global market intelligence company” Transparency Market Research released a study last week predicting an increase in the Light Detection and Ranging market as it relates to drone combos. Following the explosion in drone adoption across precision… Read More

Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. has released a list of all commercial drones currently available in the US market that have the flight and communications range to be flown beyond line-of-sight (BVLOS), including some aircraft with ranges of many miles.  As the FAA begins to consider and issue waivers to commercial drone flyers for beyond line-of-sight flight… Read More

A 14 year old Gujarati boy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state government’s Department of Science and Technology to produce the landmine-detecting drone he designed. Harshwardhan Zala was present at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit to sign the deal yesterday.  Zala has already filed a patent and created 3 prototypes of the… Read More

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is shutting down the solar-powered drone program – Titan – run by division X, which was designed to provide Internet access to remote areas of the world. The shut down, reports Business Insider, is “the latest example of the company’s efforts to cut back its ambitious ‘moonshots.'” A representative from X told… Read More

The sight of a crash-test dummy being pummeled from the air by a rogue drone may alarm a casual observer; but for researchers at Virginia Tech University, it’s all in a day’s work to improve air safety. The VTU research team recently launched a program, in cooperation with the FAA, to apply the latest in… Read More

Lily, a crowd-sourced drone that looked to be the first action selfie drone is shutting its doors.. It was a novel and innovative concept that received a great deal of press attention when announced. However, it never took off. In the meantime several firms executed on the concept of small easy to used selfie drones.… Read More

The U.S. Defense Department released the largest swarm of autonomous micro-drones during a recent test over China Lake testing ground in California. Traveling at Mach .6, three F/A-18 Super Hornets successfully launched 103 Perdix drones from the fighters’ underbelly flare dispensers. With a tiny, 11.8-inch wingspan and weighing only .6 pounds, the drones withstood temperatures… Read More

In a press statement released yesterday, French drone manufacturer Parrot announced that it would lay off more than a third of its drone division employees and reorganize the business, after missing fourth quarter revenue targets. The maker of the consumer Bebop drone announced that 2016 Q4 revenues had come in at around 85 million euros,… Read More