Every firmware drop, every FCC filing, every leak out of Shenzhen. DJI is the most-covered drone maker on DroneXL — this is the desk that watches them.
The FCC has proposed $25,000 fines against eight companies it suspects of selling rebranded DJI hardware in the United States after they ignored federal inquiries, escalating a case that could end in revoked equipment authorizations.
An 18-year-old whitewater kayak guide from Grass Valley is building Winter, an autonomous drone that pairs thermal search with defibrillator and water delivery, after losing a friend in a kayaking accident.
A University of Houston engineer says she has built a real-time monitor that keeps a quadrotor from crashing when a gust shoves it off course. Marzia Cescon calls it a “safety supervisor,” a software module that rides onboard the drone and watches its tilt and position while it flies. When the math predicts the aircraft…
DJI revealed its first eVTOL delivery drone today, the DJI EV50, and it announced the aircraft’s existence by disclosing that it already flew to 29,072 feet (8,861 meters) on the north side of Mount Everest. The fixed-wing cargo aircraft carried ozone-measuring equipment for Peking University researchers over a 12-day campaign in the Qomolangma National Nature…
DJI’s 2026 drone pipeline keeps moving, and American buyers keep watching from the sidelines. The Air 4 turned up inside a Chinese flight-reporting app back in May. A model nobody can identify, the N610BS, just cleared Chinese radio certification. The Avata 360 already shipped worldwide in March. Every one of those launches hits the same…
Filmmaker Reilín Joey has published a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the official DJI Osmo Pocket 4 launch commercial, a production he directed and edited across 12 locations on two continents. The video, released July 7, 2026, follows the shoot from safari scenes near Cape Town, South Africa, to a typhoon-compressed schedule in Hong Kong, and closes…
DJI released the DJI AP100 Parachute for the Matrice 400 on July 8, 2026, a rear-mounted recovery system that deploys in under 600 milliseconds and brings the aircraft down at less than 5 meters per second (16.4 feet per second). The launch landed in the 8 AM EDT slot DJI had teased, under the tagline…
Emesent has raised $17 million (A$25 million) in new funding to expand manufacturing at its Wacol, Queensland facility and build out two software platforms: Cortex AI, its onboard autonomy engine for GPS-denied flight, and Aura, its cloud platform for processing and visualizing 3D data. The round pairs a $7 million (A$10 million) venture debt facility…
Firmware drops, FCC filings, leaks, rumors — the DJI desk is the busiest one in the DroneXL newsroom.
