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TU Delft Drone Flies 600 Meters Home On 42 Kilobytes By Copying A Honeybee
TU Delft's Bee-Nav drone flies home from 600 meters without GPS, using a honeybee-inspired neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. Here's how it works.
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Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
New York startup Vermeer sells a $20,000 camera-and-AI kit that lets strike drones navigate without GPS, combat-tested in Ukraine against Russian jamming.
DJI
DJI Clears an Independent U.S. Cybersecurity Audit, a Custom FPV Drone Hits 730 km/h, and SkyeBrowse Drops Another Major Update
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: DJI was audited by a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, a custom FPV drone hit 730 kilometers per hour, and SkyeBrowse rolled out yet another major product update. So let’s get to it. DJI Passes a U.S. Cybersecurity Audit With Zero Critical…
Russia
Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Block in Galați, First Injuries on NATO Soil as Bucharest Weighs Article 4
A Russian Geran-2 attack drone crashed into the roof of a 10-storey apartment block in Galați, Romania, overnight on 28-29 May, detonating its full warhead on impact and starting a fire that injured two residents. It is the first time in nearly four years of repeated airspace breaches that a Russian drone has hurt anyone…
Police
FAA Law Makes That Viral “Claude Squirrel-Hunting Drone” Illegal Three Times Over
A post claiming to show an AI-controlled drone armed with a CO2 BB gun that autonomously shoots squirrels has pulled in more than 590,000 views on X this week, and almost every law it touches points the same direction: this is illegal for any civilian to operate in the United States. The account, a self-described…
Ukraine
Pentagon Floats Equity Stakes In U.S. Drone Startups As Trump Administration Tries To Buy Its Way Out Of A Production Deficit
The Trump administration is negotiating funding deals with a group of American drone companies, and at least some of those deals could hand the U.S. government an ownership slice of the firms it backs. According to a Wall Street Journal exclusive, the Pentagon has identified Performance Drone Works, Unusual Machines, and Neros Technologies as candidates…
Department of Homeland Security
HOVERAir AQUA Launches In 50+ Countries Today, US Buyers Locked Out By FCC Foreign Drone Ban
HOVERAir AQUA, the waterproof self-flying camera, launches globally today in 50+ countries. US buyers excluded due to the December 2025 FCC drone ban.
DJI
DJI’s New U.S. Security Audit By OnDefend Finds No Backdoors, No Foreign Data Transmission In Air 3S And Matrice 4E
Independent U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend audited DJI's Air 3S and Matrice 4E across five months and found zero critical, high, or medium-risk findings.
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