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Caltech has teamed up with the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) to create a robotic symbiosis between a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, and their own hybrid drone prototype – the Morphobot M4. This autonomous duo is able to carry out safety-sensitive operations without any human interaction. The G1 carries M4 to a good launch point, deploys…
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his controversial $400 million White House ballroom will feature bulletproof glass and a “drone-free roof” – vague marketing speak that nonetheless reveals how profoundly the Butler assassination attempt has reshaped his thinking about aerial threats. “It’s got all bulletproof glass, it’s got all drone, they call it drone-free roof,…
Amazon has halted its plans to run its commercial Prime Air drone delivery operations in Italy, effectively shelving the project after what sounded, on paper, like a very promising start. According to an article from Reuters, Amazon made the layoff call after a “strategic review,” saying the broader business and regulatory environment in Italy does…
I’ve flown many of “DJI alternatives” over the years, and they all failed the same test: obstacle avoidance. The moment you needed to fly sideways through trees or track a moving subject, those budget options revealed themselves as expensive toys. The Skyrover X1 is different. It actually matches the DJI Mini 4 Pro’s professional safety…
Medical drones are often discussed in glossy presentations and optimistic press releases, but Japan is one of the few countries where the conversation has moved past theory and reportedly into daily operations. While the global medical drone market is projected to grow from roughly 787 million dollars in 2024 to nearly 2.8 billion by 2032,…
The two officials who built the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and helped create the Blue UAS framework are warning that a drone attack on US soil is coming in 2026. Their analysis exposes a fundamental tension in American drone policy: the same security-first approach that justified expensive domestic alternatives may have slowed the mass production…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I only have two stories for you this week, although one is kind of a long one. The FCC adds all UAS and UAS critical components manufactured in a foreign country to the covered list. And that was kind of a plot twist. The second story has to…
When a hiker found himself injured and stuck overnight on Camelback Mountain near Phoenix, help arrived from above, but not in the way most people expect. Instead of a dramatic night hoist, the Phoenix Fire Department sent a DJI drone carrying a small survival kit that made a long, cold night far more manageable, as…
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