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DJI

DJI Sues Insta360 Over Six Patents Three Days Before Avata 360 Launch

DJI filed a patent lawsuit against Insta360 in China three days before the Avata 360 launch. Insta360’s founder fires back with 28 counter-patents.

Haye KestelooMar 23

Zipline

Zipline Adds $200M to Series H, Bringing Total to $800M as Repeat Orders Drive Faster-Than-Expected Growth

Zipline has closed an additional $200 million on top of its Series H round, pushing the total to $800 million, TechCrunch reported. The new capital includes participation from crypto investment firm Paradigm and arrives ahead of schedule. “Things have moved a little faster than we expected,” CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton said in a video posted…

Haye KestelooMar 23

DJI

DJI Matrice 400 And Zenmuse L3 Help Map Lost Maya Cities In Guatemala’s Jungle

A DJI Matrice 400 drone paired with the Zenmuse L3 LiDAR payload is now scanning the Mirador Basin in northern Guatemala, where archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen has spent 47 years documenting one of the densest concentrations of ancient Maya cities on Earth. DJI Enterprise published a video profile of the project this month. The video…

Haye KestelooMar 23

Skydio

Skydio Wins $52 Million Army Order for Over 2,500 X10D Drones, the Largest Single-Vendor sUAS Purchase in U.S. Army History

The U.S. Army has placed an order exceeding $52 million with Skydio for more than 2,500 X10D drones, the company announced today. It is the largest small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) procurement from a single vendor in Army history. The contract moved from bid to award in under 72 hours, bypassing the multi-year acquisition timelines that…

Haye KestelooMar 22

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface

Skydio

2nd Cavalry Scouts With Drones, Not Soldiers

In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment reports. They’re sitting behind their Strykers, watching a ground robot disappear into the tree line,…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

Anduril

Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework

The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software platform, as Defence Express reports. It is the largest single contract in Anduril’s history and…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

Bell

This $155 Drone Built With a $5 Chip Hits 67 mph

Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently needed answering: how fast can you go when the budget ceiling is $155? The answer,…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

Auterion

Switzerland Is Testing Drones Where They’re Hardest to Fly

Switzerland’s government-backed Taskforce Drones is preparing its next round of UAS technical trials for autumn 2026, building on a December 2025 campaign that pushed attack drones and counter-drone systems through some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, as JANES reports. The program is overseen by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

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