Export controls, the Shenzhen supply chain, and the geopolitics of the world’s drone-manufacturing superpower.
The Ontario government will ban the Ontario Provincial Police from using Chinese-made drones on highly sensitive operations and begin phasing out broader provincial government use of Chinese hardware, the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement announced on May 20, 2026. The press release does not name DJI directly, but the company is…
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh survived 14 Russian drone attacks on a five-hour walk along Ukraine's 'Road of Life,' validating DroneXL's Donbas kill zone reporting.
Autel Robotics filed a reply at the Federal Communications Commission arguing the agency added the company to its Covered List on the basis of classified material Autel was never allowed to see and technical complaints originally aimed at DJI. The reply landed in ET Docket 26-23 for the May 11, 2026 deadline, and it sharpens…
DJI has opened reservations for its next ROMO robot vacuum in China, and a newly released render gives us our best look yet at what's inside.
At XPONENTIAL, former DJI policy VP Brendan Schulman moderates robotics panel; DOT's Owen Morgan confirms adversary drone security belongs to FCC, not DOT.
China just moved a hydrogen fuel cell system for drones from the lab to the field. Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed a successful demonstration flight and passed a national scientific appraisal that puts the technology on the path to commercial deployment, as reported by…
A Ukrainian drone operator says his unit is now paying more than eight times what it used to for the fiber optic spools that feed their jam-proof FPV drones. Dimko Zhluktenko, co-founder of the Dzyga’s Paw charity fund and now serving with Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said in a May 10 post on X that…
The DJI Air 4 has surfaced inside a Chinese drone flight-reporting app, sitting in a dropdown menu of selectable aircraft alongside the already-shipping Insta360 Antigravity A1. The screenshot, posted Monday by drone leaker Igor Bogdanov on X with the caption “Caught…Air 4,” is the first known appearance of the unannounced model in a regulatory-adjacent piece…
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