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The U.S. Army just demonstrated something that sounds straightforward until you think about what it actually required: launching an autonomous strike drone from a moving Apache attack helicopter in less than six months from the day someone wrote the requirement down. The demonstration took place on February 26 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, using…
The Antigravity A1 launched in December 2025 with a price tag that made a lot of people curious and a lot of wallets nervous. Four months later, and with the DJI Avata 360 now breathing directly down its neck, the world’s first 8K 360-degree drone just got its first significant discount. As of March 28,…
The Metro Vancouver Transit Police are getting drones, and they’re doing it before the biggest sporting event this region has ever hosted. The agency confirmed in a March 25 report to the TransLink board that nine officers are already trained and three different drones are ready to fly, as reported by Coast Reporter. The target…
The resort partnered with technology firm KIONIQ to deploy DJI Matrice 4TD drones on DJI Dock 3 through its SPECT service
My DJI Mavic Air drone had arrived that day — brand new, still smelling like the factory — and I could not wait another hour. I had to see it fly.
Draganfly and Palladyne AI have completed another step in their autonomous swarm program, and this one moves the technology closer to actual defense operations. The two companies announced in a press release the successful integration of Palladyne AI’s SwarmOS platform across Draganfly’s mission-ready drone components, validated through a completed flight simulation. It is not a…
ACSL is actively promoting SAMO, its dual optical-thermal swappable payload for the SOTEN drone, as the Japan-made platform pushes deeper into U.S. public safety and inspection markets. Built around Teledyne FLIR’s Hadron 640R module, SAMO pairs a 64-megapixel visible camera with a 640×512 radiometric Boson thermal sensor — all in an NDAA-compliant, ITAR-free package. Teledyne…
The FAA has approved 14 agencies to let one pilot fly up to four Skydio X10 drones simultaneously under a new streamlined BVLOS waiver process.
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