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DJI Pocket 4 Packaging Leak Confirms Every Spec Buyers Were Hoping For
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DJI Pocket 4 Packaging Leak Confirms Every Spec Buyers Were Hoping For

Retail packaging photos of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Creator Combo have surfaced showing the full spec sheet printed on the box, as The New Camera first reported. The image, shared by OsitaLV, reveals a 1-inch sensor with 14 stops of dynamic range, 107GB of built-in storage, 2x lossless zoom, and 4-channel audio output. These…

Japan Deploys Drones for Nighttime Wildfire Mapping
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Japan Deploys Drones for Nighttime Wildfire Mapping

When a wildfire tore through Mount Ogi in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, ground crews couldn’t reach it and helicopters stopped flying at dark. That’s when the drones went to work. Blue Innovation Co., Ltd. conducted nighttime aerial imaging flights over the burn area, filling the critical hours between sunset and the next morning’s helicopter operations, as…

Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They're Calling It PLargonia.
Ukraine

Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They’re Calling It PLargonia.

Warsaw watched what Iranian drones did to Ukrainian cities and decided it needed one of its own. The PLargonia is almost ready. A Delta-Wing Loitering Munition Built in Poland Poland’s Air Force Institute of Technology and Autonomous Systems Center, known as OSA, have jointly developed a loitering munition that looks remarkably familiar, as Next Gen…

Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.
Ukraine

Ukrainian Students Race Combat Drones in Kyiv. The Winner Flew It in 36 Seconds.

There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…

Rosemount PD Joins Drone Network Logging 1,300 Flights a Year
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Rosemount PD Joins Drone Network Logging 1,300 Flights a Year

Rosemount, Minnesota, is the latest American community to put a drone in the hands of its police department, and the numbers surrounding its launch say more about the broader trend than any single agency announcement. The Rosemount Police Department launched its Unmanned Aerial System program under a policy adopted January 1, 2026. Nine officers have…

Window-Washing Drone Startup Lucid Bots Raises $20M
United States

Window-Washing Drone Startup Lucid Bots Raises $20M

Lucid Bots Drones just closed a $20 million Series B to keep up with demand it says it can’t fulfill fast enough. For a company that spent five years selling its first 100 robots, that’s a different kind of problem. The Charlotte, North Carolina company makes the Sherpa cleaning drone and the Lavo ground robot,…

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