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Shield AI V-BAT Severs Romanian Officer’s Fingers as Reuters Documents 50-Plus Crashes
A Romanian Navy official lost two fingers and fractured a third on May 12 when her hand was caught in the propeller of a Shield AI V-BAT drone during a training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast. Romania’s…
EHang Flies 22,580 Drones, Breaks Guinness Record
EHang shattered the Guinness World Record for drone light shows on February 3, 2026, flying 22,580 drones simultaneously from a single computer over Hefei’s Luogang Park. Of the swarm loaded for launch, only about 25 drones failed to lift off.…
Good Drone Company Picks Kenya For Its First Real Logistics Network, Targeting Cargo Zipline Skips
The Good Drone Company has signed an exclusive partnership with Kenyan operator ThatcherX to fly autonomous cargo drones across Kenya, and the timing tells you where this is headed. The deal landed days after the two ran an inaugural flight…
North Dakota Cuts BVLOS Waivers From Years to 23 Days
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…
Amazon Wants Idaho Sky Next: Nampa Vote May 26
Amazon Prime Air has filed for a conditional use permit in Nampa, Idaho, asking the city to approve a 21,000-square-foot drone delivery center at its existing fulfillment site on East Franklin Road. The Nampa Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled…
Australia Picks PteroDynamics Transwing VTOL for Navy Logistics
A U.S. drone company just landed its first international defense contract, and it came from a customer that has been thinking hard about how to keep ships supplied across the Pacific. PteroDynamics, a Colorado-based developer of autonomous VTOL aircraft, announced…
Drone Delivery Sandwiches Land at Papa Johns Stores
Papa Johns is the second major pizza chain to go airborne this year. The brand teamed up with Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, to launch a pilot program in Indian Trail, North Carolina on May 11, as PMQ Pizza reported.…
Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
Six weeks ago, in a press release issued through the Irish government’s Enterprise Ireland agency, Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy called Ireland “the foundation of everything we do” and committed to designing and building drones in Dublin. On Tuesday…
FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
The drone industry has spent two decades arguing that uncrewed aircraft are aircraft and that commercial operators belong in the National Airspace System on equal terms with crewed aviation. On Tuesday morning at XPONENTIAL Detroit, the senior FAA official who…
Knightwerx Leaves California, Plants Flag in Scottsdale
Another defense tech company has made the call on California. Knightwerx, a tactical drone developer that built its name making compact military UAS, has moved its headquarters from Camarillo to Scottsdale, and it’s already hiring, as Hoodline reported. The move…
Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
Waiv Robotics, a London-based maritime tech startup, has unveiled a gyro-stabilized platform that enables fully autonomous takeoff and landing of VTOL drones on moving vessels at sea, as reported by The Robot Report. The system works with existing drones without…
Missouri Drone Corridor Aims to Save Transplant Time
A small startup in Rolla, Missouri is building what may be the nation’s first rural health care drone corridor, and the clock it’s racing isn’t measured in minutes. It’s measured in whether an organ donor’s tissue reaches a matching recipient…