Drone Companies

St Paul Police Logged 472 Dfr Flights In Four Weeks

St Paul Police Logged 472 DFR Flights in Four Weeks

The St Paul Police Department’s new dock-based Drone as First Responder program flew 472 missions in its first four weeks, already passing the 436 patrol-drone flights the department logged in all of 2025. The three rooftop Skydio X10 drones went…

Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter In Truck Bed

Irvine Police Drone Catches Shoplifter in Truck Bed

The Irvine Police Department’s Drone as First Responder program ended a Walmart shoplifting case the same way it ends most calls these days, with the suspect on the ground and an aircraft watching from above. Officers arrested Guillermo Hazael Martinez…

Drone Nerds Adds Rigitech Eiger For 62-Mile Delivery

Drone Nerds Adds RigiTech Eiger for 62-Mile Delivery

XTI Aerospace’s Drone Nerds division added the RigiTech Eiger, a long-range delivery drone rated for 62 miles (100 km) per mission, to its enterprise portfolio. The Swiss-built aircraft takes off vertically, flies like a fixed-wing plane, and needs no runway.…

Zipline Adds Austin To Texas Drone Delivery Push

Zipline Adds Austin to Texas Drone Delivery Push

Zipline plans to expand its autonomous drone delivery service to Austin later this year, making it the California company’s third Texas market in under 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth launched in August 2025. Houston followed in April 2026. Austin is next,…

Thiel And Sequoia Bet $570M On German Drones

Thiel and Sequoia Bet $570M on German Drones

Stark Defence, the Berlin startup that builds loitering munitions for the German military, closed a €500 million (roughly $570 million) funding round this week led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The deal values the two-year-old company at…