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Michigan

Michigan House Passes 2 Of 15 SHIELD Drone Bills, Both Aimed At Chinese-Made Aircraft Procurement

Michigan House passed just 2 of 15 SHIELD drone bills, both restricting state purchases of Chinese-made drones. The other 13 stay behind.

Haye KestelooMay 14

Robinson Unmanned Demos Spirit At XPONENTIAL Detroit; Helius Pocket Drone Still A Prototype, Production Pushed To Mid-To-Late Summer 2026

Drone Companies

Robinson Unmanned At XPONENTIAL: Spirit Modular Demo Impresses; Helius Pre-Orders Wait Another Six Months

Robinson Unmanned's Helius pocket drone, originally promised Q4 2025 delivery at $4,499, is still a prototype with production now slipping to mid-2026.

Haye KestelooMay 13

Amazon

Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa

Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy tells XPONENTIAL Detroit he is moving Manna's manufacturing from Dublin to Tulsa and targeting 2,000-3,000 US jobs.

Haye KestelooMay 13

FAA

FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’

FAA ATO COO McIntosh at XPONENTIAL Detroit: drones treated as aircraft, operators as pilots; new radar data sharing test program coming in two weeks.

Haye KestelooMay 13

Department of Defense

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 week, booth 34005. It’s the first product built on the company’s H1 Autonomous Systems Chip,…

Rafael SuárezMay 13

Drone Incidents

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 an autonomous test flight on May 4 after losing power. No one was on board,…

Rafael SuárezMay 13

Skydio

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 on SW 96th Street is another data point in a pattern that’s accelerating across American…

Rafael SuárezMay 13

Ukraine

Army’s Bumblebee V1 Turns a Drone Into a Drone Killer

The U.S. Army has a new answer to the drone threat, and it involves sending a drone to take care of it. Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently trained with the Bumblebee V1 counter-drone system at Fort Drum, New York, in a session organized by Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Department of War’s…

Rafael SuárezMay 12

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