Space Drones: The Final Frontier?
So much of the excitement (and apprehension) surrounding the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) focuses on their prospective impact on our everyday lives on Earth. But the long-term impact…
Drone Medical Rescue Missions Are Coming Home
Drones are well-known for speeding delivery of emergency medical supplies, including vaccines, to remote villages in Africa. But with far less fanfare drones are also beginning to make deliveries of…
Bowing to Industry Pressure, FAA Will Expand Drone Airspace Rights
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators will finally be able to fly their drones over densely inhabited areas using Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) navigation thanks to new draft FAA…
Japan Breaks Into the Drone Industry With a Two-Week Long Event
Fascination with drones is a relatively new phenomenon in japan. It took a 2015 incident, in which a private hobbyist managed to crash a small drone into the official residence…
Another Burgeoning Role for Drones: Warehouse Inventory Management
Every warehouse manager dreads the need for ongoing inventory management. Even with the help of barcodes or RFID identifiers, it takes workers hours to roam through the warehouse to take…
Drones Are Helping the Feds Improve Their “Moose Count”
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can play a wide range of roles in the field of environmental management and conservationists the world over have wasted no time putting them to good…
As Drones Fill the Skies, More Consumers Are Looking for Ways to Detect Them
Are you worried that someone may be eavesdropping on your home or office? With so many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying the friendly skies these days, the possibility of a…
Iran Appears Ready to Ship Drones to Russia
In a dramatic sign of military escalation in the Ukraine war, Iran appears ready to ship hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia to assist Moscow’s increasingly aggressive campaign…
Drone Light Shows: Safer and More Dazzling Than Fireworks?
July 4th fireworks displays are dazzling and exciting, especially for kids, but they can be dangerous when not properly supervised. A report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)…
Underwater Unmanned Vehicles (UUV’s) Join the Drone Arms Race
Nations are beginning to acquire a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, and about a dozen, led by the United States and Russia, are arming them. America first began deploying…
