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DJI Faces December Ban Deadline as Political Pressure Spawns Proxy Company Network
A security audit mandated by Rep. Elise Stefanik could ban new DJI and Autel drone purchases within 30 days if the companies are deemed an “unacceptable risk” to national security by late December. But the looming deadline raises uncomfortable questions…
Ukrainian Drone Autonomy Firm NORDA Dynamics Raises $1M for GPS-Free Flight Systems
Ukrainian autonomous drone control developer NORDA Dynamics has secured $1 million in funding to scale production of UAV systems designed to operate without GPS or traditional communications. Swedish investment firm Varangians led the round, which signals growing investor confidence in…
Auterion Raises $130M to Scale AI-Powered Drone Swarms for Defense
Auterion, the Swiss-American drone software company behind the open-source PX4 autopilot system, has secured $130 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to accelerate deployment of AI-powered drone swarms for military operations. The funding round values the…
RoboFalcon 2.0: The Drone That Flies Like a Bird
For every drone pilot who has watched a bird effortlessly glide on the wind and felt a pang of jealousy, this one’s for you. Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University have unveiled RoboFalcon 2.0, a flapping-wing drone that so perfectly mimics…
The Real Reason Your New DJI Mini 5 Pro is Overweight
For years, the number 249 has been a sacred, almost mythical figure in the drone world. It is the magic weight, in grams, that separates a “toy” from a “real” drone in the eyes of many regulators, allowing us to…
No Weight Tolerance for DJI Mini 5 Pro in United States as per FAA Drone Regulations
Unlike the European Union’s approach, the FAA provides no manufacturing tolerance for the 250-gram weight threshold for drones such as the DJI Mini 5 Pro. US regulations are strict: any drone weighing 250 grams or more requires registration, regardless of…
Amish Brothers Are Revolutionizing Farming With DJI Drones
In the heart of Pennsylvania’s farm country, a new kind of revolution is taking place, and it’s buzzing just above the cornfields. As Farm Progress let us know, three young men from the Amish community, a group known for its…
DJI Mini 5 Pro’s Weight Problem: Are You At Risk?
So, this is a new DJI Mini 5 Pro, a unit that is very much not below 250g. I’ve heard lots of interesting things about this fact over the last couple of days, and I’m going to dive through and…
Finance Pro’s Startup Reinvents Banner Ads With Drones
For many of us, drones are a passionate hobby or a professional side-hustle. But for Jacob Stonecipher, the pull of the skies was so strong that he walked away from a senior director title at a Manhattan private-equity firm to…
US Eases Export Rules for Armed Drones
In a major policy shift that will reshape the global arms market, the United States has reinterpreted its export rules to make it significantly easier to sell advanced military drones like the MQ-9 Reaper to allied nations. The move, announced…
British FPV ‘kamikaze’ drones ready—MoD delays keep them grounded
Britain’s push to adopt attack drones modeled on Ukraine’s battlefield tactics is faltering as procurement red tape leaves promising domestic systems chasing sheep on Welsh hillsides instead of targets in training ranges, according to a report in The Telegraph. Drone…
The FAA Forgot About You in Part 108 — Speak Up by Oct 6!
So, you want to fly beyond visual line of sight, huh? Good timing. The FAA proposed new Part 108 rules in early August, and now they’re asking for comments. And yes, the proposal is about 650 pages long, and it’s…
