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A Zipline delivery drone flying for Walmart deployed its emergency parachute over a Greenville, Texas neighborhood on Sunday, July 26, and drifted down onto a residential street near Roy Warren Parkway and Joe Ramsey Boulevard, coming to rest about three feet from a parked pickup truck. Nobody was hurt, and a Walmart employee showed up quickly…
Leaked photos from Igor Bogdanov show a purported DJI Matrice 5 with what appears to be built-in LiDAR, RTK, and a five-window gimbal with laser rangefinder.
Formula 1 fans are not sold on FPV drone footage, and the most detailed public referendum on it is happening on Reddit. After the Austrian Grand Prix put drone shots at the center of a race broadcast, a thread on r/formula1 filled with responses that split between viewers who called the footage the first time they ever felt the cars' speed and viewers who said it made them physically nauseous…
Formula 1 used drone footage more aggressively, and more creatively, in today's Hungarian Grand Prix broadcast than in any race I have watched this season. Watching the Apple TV feed on Sunday, July 26, I counted drone angles woven into the live coverage from lap 3 onward, and two of them stopped me cold…
The DJI Mini 5 Pro just dropped to $683 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. What the 1-inch sensor drone offers, and the 250-gram catch.
Zelenskyy told Laura Loomer that U.S.-Ukraine drone cooperation will include a factory on American soil, days before he meets Trump. F-Drones already broke ground in Ohio, and the export deal behind the announcement still rests on anonymous sources.
New York's $75 million LETECH program funds police drones and counter-drone gear, but an ICE clause locks out Rensselaer County, whose photographed fleet of DJI and Autel aircraft faces a federal squeeze of its own.
Anduril is in talks to raise funding at a roughly $100 billion valuation, per Reuters, just two months after its $5 billion round. Here is what the number really prices in.
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