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Vivid Sydney just pulled the plug on every drone show left in its lineup. The trigger came Monday night, when roughly 89 drones dropped out of the sky during the festival’s Star-Bound performance at Cockle Bay. Eighty-three of them hit the water of Darling Harbour, six more came down on the boardwalk, and nobody was…
TU Delft's Bee-Nav drone flies home from 600 meters without GPS, using a honeybee-inspired neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. Here's how it works.
HOVERAir AQUA, the waterproof self-flying camera, launches globally today in 50+ countries. US buyers excluded due to the December 2025 FCC drone ban.
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs pushed his Blackbird speed drone to 730 km/h (454 mph) on a downwind run and 640 km/h (398 mph) flying back into the wind, for a two-direction average of 685 km/h (426 mph). The average clears the 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph) figure that holds the official Guinness World Record for…
Estrella Resources has deployed a DJI FlyCart 30 heavy-lift quadcopter in Timor-Leste to fly a drone-mounted geophysical survey that can image manganese mineralization down to 800 meters (2,625 feet) below the surface, the kind of depth that until recently required a helicopter to access. The Australian explorer is using the FlyCart 30 to carry the…
The UK Ministry of Defense announced on May 15 that BAE Systems, Anduril Industries, Tekever, and Thales UK have been shortlisted to develop autonomous drones that will fly alongside the British Army’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. The four firms will share $13 million (£10 million) in investment as the program enters its next assessment phase,…
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 this week that it won a competitive Royal Australian Navy contract to supply P4 Transwing…
Australia just unveiled a decade-long counter-drone push worth up to $7 billion AUD (about $5 billion USD), anchored by two Melbourne companies building hardware the Defence Industry Minister compared to Star Wars, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The initial $31 million AUD ($22 million USD) in contracts went to AIM Defence for a high-powered…
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