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On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine forest, the company demonstrated its P1-SUN interceptor against a lightweight replica of the Iranian-designed attack…
A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
A U.S. Navy surface drone pulled two downed Apache crew from the Strait of Hormuz, the first time an unmanned vessel has rescued U.S. military personnel.
The New York Times Magazine published a feature on June 5 about the technology rewiring American agriculture, and the one machine actually flying over these fields barely made the cut. Robotic milkers, laser weeders, and driverless tractors each got a farmer, a photo essay, and a few hundred words. Spray drones got a single clause:…
A New York Post op-ed calls cheap interceptor drones like Russia's $500 Yolka drone a terror risk. Here's what checks out, what doesn't, and the regulatory gap.
Amazon wants to turn 176 square miles of upstate New York into a drone delivery zone. The company is asking the town of Clay, near Syracuse, for permission to fly Prime Air deliveries out of an existing warehouse. If it clears the FAA and the local planning board, anyone within 7.5 miles could get a…
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.
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