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Michigan House Passes 2 Of 15 SHIELD Drone Bills, Both Aimed At Chinese-Made Aircraft Procurement
The Michigan House on Tuesday passed two of the 15 bills in the SHIELD Michigan drone package, sending procurement restrictions on Chinese-made drones to the Senate while leaving the most legally contested provisions stalled in the House. House Bills 5329…
German Researchers Fire Steel Chains to Down Drones
Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has proposed something that sounds like medieval warfare with a modern twist. Their answer to the country’s growing drone problem? Fire steel chains at quadcopters from a 40mm launcher and let physics do the…
DJI ROMO to Launch New Version As Reservations Go Live in China
DJI has opened reservations for its next ROMO robot vacuum in China as of May 11, and a newly released render gives us our best look yet at what’s actually inside the thing. DJI ROMO Expands The image shows two…
Drone Security Is The FCC’s Job, Not DOT’s: Owen Morgan Tells XPONENTIAL Robotics Panel
Brendan Schulman, the former Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs at DJI who left for Boston Dynamics in September 2021, returned to an AUVSI XPONENTIAL stage in Detroit on Tuesday to moderate a robotics policy panel that opened with…
Robinson Unmanned At XPONENTIAL: Spirit Modular Demo Impresses; Helius Pre-Orders Wait Another Six Months
On the outdoor demo pad in front of Huntington Place at XPONENTIAL 2026 Detroit, Robinson Unmanned Head of Flight Operations Matt Donofrio set a black Spirit coaxial drone on its carbon fiber landing legs while a colleague hand-launched the pocket-sized…
Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
Six weeks ago, in a press release issued through the Irish government’s Enterprise Ireland agency, Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy called Ireland “the foundation of everything we do” and committed to designing and building drones in Dublin. On Tuesday…
FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
The drone industry has spent two decades arguing that uncrewed aircraft are aircraft and that commercial operators belong in the National Airspace System on equal terms with crewed aviation. On Tuesday morning at XPONENTIAL Detroit, the senior FAA official who…
AUVSI’s Robbins Defends Broader-Than-Asked FCC Drone Ban; Pentagon’s Cadenazzi Sets 2026 Section 805 Pilot Timeline
AUVSI President and CEO Michael Robbins opened the association’s XPONENTIAL Detroit conference Tuesday morning, May 12, by reframing how the largest drone industry lobby in the United States talks about the FCC’s December 22, 2025 sweep of all foreign-made drones…
HYFIX Launches U.S.-Made H1P Chip Module for Small Drones
HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is rolling out its H1P Positioning, Navigation, and Open-Compute Module for small unmanned systems, with samples and evaluation kits available immediately. The Santa Clara, California company is showcasing the H1P at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2026 in Detroit this…
Solar Impulse 2 Crashes Into Gulf After Skydweller Conversion
The aircraft that once made aviation history by circumnavigating the globe on sunlight alone is now at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Solar Impulse 2, the record-setting solar plane built by Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, crashed during…
China’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Could Triple Industrial Drone Flight Time
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…
Oklahoma City Drone Finds Armed Suspect, Robot Ends Standoff
Oklahoma City police handled a potentially deadly standoff last month without a single injury using two tools that are becoming standard equipment in modern patrol operations: a drone and a tactical robot, as reported by Officer. The April 8 incident…