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MIT and Penn Open-Source MIGHTY, a Drone Motion Planner That Cuts Out Six-Figure Commercial Software
Researchers at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania have released MIGHTY, an open-source motion planner that lets drones react to obstacles in milliseconds using only onboard sensors and compute. The system, detailed in a paper accepted to IEEE Robotics and…
Wyoming PD Goes from One Drone to Three on $26K Vote
The Wyoming Police Department is going from one drone to three. The Wyoming City Council approved $26,226 for two new aircraft on May 18 in a 5-1 vote, with one council member dissenting on surveillance grounds. The department flew its…
SkyRover X1 Crashes to $449, a $309 Cut on the Sub-249g 4K Foldable
The SkyRover X1 just dropped to its lowest price ever, $449 at B&H, down from a $758 list. That is a $309 cut on a sub-250g foldable drone that flies 4K60 HDR, ships with 360-degree obstacle sensing, and walks into…
Durham Police DJI Drone Locates Wanted Suspect In Pickering Greenspace
A Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) drone operator located a suspect with outstanding warrants for violent offences in under 20 minutes on May 9, 2026, after the man fled a disturbance call in Pickering, Ontario and hid in a green…
LOC8 Plus Skydio Run Coconino’s AI Search Engine
The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office in Flagstaff, Arizona is using the latest AI-capable Skydio drones with the LOC8 G2 image-analysis platform to compress search and rescue photo review from thousands of drone images down to about twenty per mission. The…
DJI Matrice 300 Recovers Stolen Telehandler
A police drone operator with Nottinghamshire Police located a stolen telehandler hidden under trees near the A46 on May 20, 2026, using a DJI Matrice 300 RTK, five days after the bright-yellow machine had been reported missing from Hawton near…
DJI Lito and Lito X1 Beginner’s Guide: How to Fly Your New Drone
Good day folks, Shawn here from Air Photography. This is my beginner’s guide for the brand new Lito drone from DJI — both the standard Lito and the Lito X1. When new drones like this get released, I like to…
Autel Fights Back Against the FCC, Michigan Drone Bills Stall, and a Thermal Drone Saves a Life
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: Autel is fighting back against the FCC’s Covered List, the Michigan House passed two drone procurement bills while stalling on airspace restrictions, and a drones-for-good…
DJI Responds To Ontario Ban, Calls Decision Country-Of-Origin Move Without Proven Evidence
DJI is pushing back on Ontario’s May 20 decision to ban Chinese-made drones for sensitive Ontario Provincial Police operations and to phase out broader provincial government use, calling the move a country-of-origin decision unsupported by published evidence. In a statement,…
Ontario Bans Chinese Drones For Sensitive OPP Work, Plans Broader Government Phase-Out
The Ontario government will ban the Ontario Provincial Police from using Chinese-made drones on highly sensitive operations and begin phasing out broader provincial government use of Chinese hardware, the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement announced on…
DJI FlyCart 30 Maps Timor-Leste Manganese 800 Meters Down
Estrella Resources has deployed a DJI FlyCart 30 heavy-lift quadcopter in Timor-Leste to fly a drone-mounted geophysical survey that can image manganese mineralization down to 800 meters (2,625 feet) below the surface, the kind of depth that until recently required…
DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise Saves Man in Dumpster at Minus 20
The Corman Park Police Service in Saskatchewan has deployed its DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise drone 37 times since receiving it in April 2025, and one of those deployments involved finding an intoxicated man who had crawled into a dumpster on…