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An 18-year-old whitewater kayak guide from Grass Valley is building Winter, an autonomous drone that pairs thermal search with defibrillator and water delivery, after losing a friend in a kayaking accident.
A Minneapolis police drone's thermal camera located 82-year-old veteran Bob Stewart in a creek ravine in nine minutes, after a three-and-a-half-hour ground search came up empty — footage the department released as the City Council weighs a 75-day Skydio Drones as First Responders trial.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. The FBI seizes over 600 drones at World Cup venues so far. DJI releases the Matrice 400 parachute, which is really interesting. And Boom Supersonic offers a $100,000 prize for anyone who’s going to build a Mach 1 RC airplane.…
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stood beside a recovered Iranian Shahed drone at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables on July 8 and warned that roughly 300 of them now sit in Cuba, within range of South Florida. U.S. Representative Carlos Gimenez, a Republican from Florida, stood with him. The drone behind them, a Shahed-136,…
A cargo drone lifted a stranded truck driver off the top of a fuel tanker and flew him over raging floodwater to dry ground in southern China. The rescue happened on July 6 in Yunbiao, a town in Guangxi that Typhoon Maysak had put underwater. A rescue worker strapped the man into a harness, and…
Montgomery County, Maryland, is pulling the human spotter off the rooftop. The county police department said on July 6 that it is rebuilding its Drone as First Responder program around docked Skydio X10 aircraft at six sites, and flying them beyond visual line of sight without the observer the old setup required. This was the…
DJI revealed its first eVTOL delivery drone today, the DJI EV50, and it announced the aircraft’s existence by disclosing that it already flew to 29,072 feet (8,861 meters) on the north side of Mount Everest. The fixed-wing cargo aircraft carried ozone-measuring equipment for Peking University researchers over a 12-day campaign in the Qomolangma National Nature…
Colorado Springs police put a drone over a knife fight before a single patrol car arrived, and this week they released the video to prove it. On June 21, a 911 call reported two men fighting at the A1 Mobile Home Park near Cimarron and I-25, with a possible gun in the mix. The department’s…
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