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The New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square has released a cinematic drone tour to celebrate its 40th anniversary. As Hotel Dive reports, The hotel wanted to create something fresh for guests and a wider audience. The result is a fast, smooth drone journey that flies through the lobby, the restaurants, the meeting rooms and…
Farmers spend a lot of time walking through barns to check on their birds. They look for stress, sickness, injuries, and anything unusual. This work is essential, but it also takes a lot of hours and a lot of staff. Poultry barns can hold thousands of animals, which makes close monitoring difficult. High staff turnover…
Dexa Drone in Dayton, Ohio, believes the future of delivery looks very different from what we know today. Instead of waiting days for a package, Dexa imagines a world where a single item arrives at your exact GPS location in minutes. No address. No parking. No delays. Right now, Dexa is the only small scale,…
The same Army Secretary who announced America needs to buy 1 million drones because US contractors can’t keep up is now Trump’s unlikely peace envoy to Ukraine. His original mission? Acquiring the drone technology he’ll now pressure Kyiv to accept a controversial deal to keep. Dan Driscoll arrived in Kyiv last week to deliver a…
A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone plunged into the Yellow Sea off South Korea’s west coast Monday morning, triggering recovery operations in waters where China, North Korea, and South Korea all have strategic interests, according to the New York Times. The crash comes just two months after the Pentagon permanently deployed Reapers to the…
A Russian drone flew deeper into NATO airspace than ever before on Tuesday, traveling more than 100 km (62 miles) into Romania before crashing without being shot down. Romanian and German fighter jets scrambled to intercept, but pilots held fire over fears of collateral damage on the ground. Now, a top U.S. general says new…
The Pennsylvania National Guard is pushing deeper into drone training as unmanned aircraft become essential on today’s battlefields, according to the official U.S. Army website. Inside a small hangar at Fort Indiantown Gap, soldiers fly FPV drones through a homemade obstacle course built from wood and PVC pipes. It looks simple, but every piece has…
On november 19 of this year, something unusual happened over enemy territory. A Ukrainian FPV combat drone, the massive Queen Hornet, pulled off a rescue mission that looked more like a Pixar short than a battlefield operation. The story spread fast in the drone community because it was equal parts impressive and hilarious. As reported…
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