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South Carolina corrections officers intercepted what might be the strangest holiday dinner delivery ever attempted, a drone-powered gourmet contraband drop that looked like someone tried to recreate a Food Network episode with the budget of a middle school bake sale, as FOX News reported. The bundle included raw steak, bagged crab legs, Old Bay seasoning,…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. DJI gets FCC approval for a new Avata 360. NASA is testing new drone navigation software in Death Valley for future Mars missions. And Texas clarifies that using drones for fishing is illegal under federal law. Let’s get to it.…
Autel built the platform on a new computing architecture that accepts voice or text commands, plans full missions on its own, and then flies them
We got a really interesting firmware update for the DJI Neo 2 that allows us to control it with our Apple Watch. According to the release notes
The Air Force Research Lab in Rome, New York just locked in $224.5 million in defense funding, including $5 million specifically for counter-drone detection systems. The timing is hard to ignore: this authorization comes exactly one year after the New Jersey “mystery drone” panic that federal investigators ultimately blamed on misidentified aircraft, planets, and stars.…
An early investor who helped fund DJI when it was struggling to survive is now selling a portfolio of luxury London apartments worth approximately £81 million ($108 million), Bloomberg reports. Lu Di, described as “a friend of Frank Wang’s father,” provided critical early funding when DJI founder Frank Wang was building the company from a…
Dear wandering pilots of the internet, if you’re hovering on the edge of ordering the DJI Mini 5 Pro, consider this your gentle shove forward. This upgrade isn’t mild, it isn’t iterative, and it absolutely isn’t one of those “we changed the color of the propellers” (but weirdly, they changed the color of the drone)…
The New York Times Editorial Board just issued one of the most alarming assessments of American military readiness in recent memory, and drones are at the center of it. In a sweeping editorial series titled “Overmatched,” the newspaper warns that cheap, autonomous drone swarms are reshaping warfare faster than the Pentagon can adapt, and that…
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