Export controls, the Shenzhen supply chain, and the geopolitics of the world’s drone-manufacturing superpower.
A sub-250-gram (8.8 oz) drone built by a Czech engineering shop just clocked 351.4 mph (565.4 km/h) on a two-way speed run and smashed the standing world record for its category. Born4Flight’s SH250G SpeedHunter, flown by founder Jakub Espandr on May 28, beat the previous mark of 222.7 mph (358.36 km/h) set in Tianjin, China…
DJI has published the full DJI Osmo Pocket 4P spec sheet, turning a vague Cannes teaser into a real product. The pocket gimbal pairs a new 1-inch wide-angle main camera with a dedicated 60mm telephoto, a combination no prior Pocket has carried. The headline numbers are now concrete: 17 stops of dynamic range on the main sensor,…
Picture a wheat field in Anhui Province at midnight, lit up like a stadium. The light isn’t coming from towers on the ground. It’s hanging in the air, bolted to a drone that hasn’t landed in hours and doesn’t plan to. Chinese state media posted footage in June of combines harvesting wheat after dark while…
A Chinese AI interceptor drone ships to U.S. buyers for $6,999, even though the FCC added new Chinese drone hardware to its Covered List in December 2025.
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. The performance aired during China Media Group’s Spring Festival Gala on February 16, beaming the…
China's new "scan-and-fly" WeChat app fast-tracks drone flights in Shanghai and Sichuan, even as Beijing keeps a near-total ban squeezing DJI at home.
Westmag emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $11 million in seed funding to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators in South San Francisco, aiming squarely at the one part of the American drone supply chain almost no one has tried to fix. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG,…
A Chinese research team of the Northwestern Polytechnical University says it has built a drone swarm that keeps hunting even after you jam its radios and blind its cameras. Their paper, published in China’s top aeronautics journal, claims a 100% kill rate in simulation. That number deserves heavy skepticism. But the method behind it, an…
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