At Amsterdam Drone Week today, the EASA High Level Conference on Drones discussed critical issues for regulation and the drone industry – and one of them is how the public perceives drones, as that perception influences regulation around the glob…
Amsterdam Drone Week has been full of innovative ideas and discussions on deep topics from European regulations to smart cities and urban air mobility. Alongside the serious conversations, however, another innovation was demonstrated in the RAI’…
Measure’s inspection services business has been acquired by Asia Pacific company Aerodyne, forming a new joint venture entity – Aerodyne Measure – for drone services. Measure will continue to operate independently as an enterprise so…
SimActive has just announced some additional functionality removes some of the manual processes currently needed to process softificated imagery. From their press release below: “Removing the need to manually tag GCPs facilitates the integration of Li…
Two players in the commercial drone space have just announced a partnership to help reduce insurance costs for commercial drone pilots. It’s a partnership that makes sense – an InsurTech platform that’s all about quantifying risks, a…
An agbioscience startup is helping Purdue University develop more and better biofuel yields. GRYFN is partnering with Purdue under a $4.5 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy. The …
The registration deadline has now passed for drone pilots in the UK. As of November 30th, the CAA’s registration and education scheme is mandatory. The new rules apply to drones and model aircraft that weigh between 250g and 20kg and are used out…
Doctors told Bevan Lyons he’d be dead by Christmas 2018. They were wrong. The 67-year-old Australian is still here, and he’s crossed an item off his Bucket List – to become a licensed drone pilot. Despite being diagnosed with a rare respiratory disease…
Since first displaying the prototype to huge hype at CES in 2015, Chinese company eHang has created a vision of passenger taxis. Now, Andreas Perotti of eHang says that the company has not only moved beyond prototypes and proof of concept, they’r…
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a major theme at Amsterdam Drone Week (ADW). These discussions are about big, high level ideas – but ideas that have the potential to change the way that everyday people get to and from work and move from place to pla…