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Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest bottleneck in commercial drone work into something close to routine. If you fly drones for…
ConocoPhillips just ran a trial that did the same job in 16 minutes from the air, flying a DJI drone-in-a-box beyond visual line of sight at one of the U.K.'s
The Dallas Police Department’s new Drone as First Responder program made its first save on Thursday afternoon, one day after the program went live. A man was walking into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 45, a Skydio drone reached him before any patrol unit could, and a uniformed crew walked him off the freeway alive. The…
Blueflite, the Brighton-based drone manufacturer that has been flying the Munson pilot, is now integrating its aircraft with medical payload bags
AUVSI's Robbins defends the broader-than-asked FCC drone ban at XPONENTIAL Detroit; Pentagon's Cadenazzi confirms Section 805 enforcement pilots for 2026.
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into which spots are open, as reported by Traffic Technology Today. It’s a pilot program. It’s…
The FAA's long-awaited Section 2209 NPRM proposes a new 14 CFR Part 74 framework with two designation tiers for restricting drones over fixed-site facilities.
Barclays published research on Wednesday arguing that autonomous food delivery, driven by sidewalk robots and drones, could cut per-order costs to roughly $1 in the long term. The British bank sees about $16 billion in unlocked annual profit across the global food delivery industry if penetration reaches projected levels, as Yahoo! reported. For the drone…
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