Georgia lawmakers are moving to loosen the rules around hog hunting and tracking, and one line in House Bill 946 is getting drone pilots’ attention. The bill would expand when and how hogs can be taken, including allowing drones to…
A UK-based company by the name of Aerial Ashes is now offering its memorial services in the United States, but its business model will make you do a double take: scattering loved ones’ ashes from the skies with a DJI…
Windracers’ ULTRA MK2 drone is headed to Madagascar on a World Food Programme (WFP) contract, focused on getting supplies to challenging locations that would otherwise take hours, if not days to reach. Madagascar is the kind of environment that exposes…
If you’ve ever wondered about what the the deepest point in the ocean actually looks like, a new AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) by Fujitsu may hold the answer. We have a ton of quadcopters on the consumer side, plus a…
If you’ve ever watched a highly-discussed piece of technology fall apart the second it comes to real-world field testing, the “Dronebuster” from DZYNE may feel all too familiar. During a town hall at Fort Drum, U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll…
Massachusetts is staring down a very modern security headache ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup: how do you build a real counter-UAS plan fast enough to protect massive, high-visibility crowds, without turning the entire region into a no-fly panic…
The U.S. Marine Corps’ drone training program has finally been announced, and it’s far more impressive than I had anticipated. They are rolling out a service-wide training framework aimed at rapidly expanding the number of small unmanned aircraft system operators…
A research team in New Zealand just turned a problem that normally means bucket trucks, ladders, and a lot of risk into something that looks like it belongs in a sci-fi workshop: an “AI chainsaw drone.” The “chainsaw drone” project…
Ambarella is one of those names that stays invisible until a company wants to brag about what’s under the hood of their new product. Based in Santa Clara, California, Ambarella builds the AI “brains” that handle heavy video processing and…
Luke Maximo Bell’s team has reclaimed the record of making the “World’s Fastest Drone”, for the fourth time! In a new Peregreen V4 build video, Bell documents what changed after Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs took the crown with a…
If you live in a community that gets hammered by wildfire smoke, agricultural drift, or industrial emissions, “check the air quality” can be easy advice to give and hard advice to follow. The closest official monitor might be miles away,…
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works just ran a live AI demonstration that hits on one of the hardest problems in autonomy – the unknown of what happens when an unmanned mission goes sideways. In the demonstration, Lockheed’s AI-driven contingency management software…