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Basalt, Colorado is the latest mountain town to look at the Drone-as-First-Responder model, and the price tag they’re putting on the table tells you exactly where this category has settled. Chief Aaron Munch presented to the Basalt Town Council on May 27, 2026, asking them to consider roughly $50,000 per drone and docking station, plus…
Lee County Mosquito Control District made history this week as the first in the United States to release sterile mosquitoes using a drone. They flew a Skydio X10 over targeted neighborhoods in Fort Myers to deliver thousands of lab-reared, sterilized male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The goal is straightforward. Reduce the population of this invasive, disease-carrying…
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: DJI was audited by a U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, a custom FPV drone hit 730 kilometers per hour, and SkyeBrowse rolled out yet another major product update. So let’s get to it. DJI Passes a U.S. Cybersecurity Audit With Zero Critical…
Independent U.S. cybersecurity firm OnDefend audited DJI's Air 3S and Matrice 4E across five months and found zero critical, high, or medium-risk findings.
The West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office is adding four Skydio X10 drones and a four-legged Boston Dynamics
ConocoPhillips just ran a trial that did the same job in 16 minutes from the air, flying a DJI drone-in-a-box beyond visual line of sight at one of the U.K.'s
St. Louis is getting six police drones, and how the city approved them says as much as the program itself. On Wednesday its Board of Police Commissioners signed off on a Drone as First Responder program built on BRINC hardware, racing a funding deadline that had Mayor Cara Spencer calling the process rushed. The drones…
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 Automation Letters and announced by MIT, jointly optimizes flight path and travel time in a…
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