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One drone. One flight. Ten gases monitored simultaneously. AIRINS just made the case for never sending a person into a hazardous environment again, as they announced on their LinkedIn page. The Company Behind the Payloads AIRINS, formerly known as Soarability, builds gas detection and environmental sensing systems designed to mount on commercial drones and collect…
A man tried to control his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation 5 controller. Accidentally discovered 7,000 other people’s robot vacuums wide open to the internet. Now DJI is paying him $30,000. This story has everything. A PS5 controller. A floor map of a stranger’s house. And a $30,000 check from a company with a…
If you or someone you know works in agriculture, there’s a possibility they have seen a large “Ag drone” being used on a nearby farm as a replacement for traditional crop-spraying planes. The entire drone industry has been running on one unspoken truth for years: DJI builds the most capable, most proven Ag drones platform…
The DJI Avata 360 drone cleared FCC authorization before the December 22, 2025 deadline that blocked all future DJI drones from the US market. Here is what American pilots need to know before March 26.
DJI has officially confirmed the DJI Avata 360, an 8K flagship 360° drone launching March 26, 2026 at 12 PM GMT. DJI rumors specialist Jasper Ellens predicted DJI's new multi-week teaser strategy — and today proved him right.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is buying Skydio R10 indoor drones. The aircraft is genuinely impressive. The procurement process is a different story. The Drone That Goes Where Officers Cannot The Skydio R10 is the first American-made drone purpose-built for indoor public safety operations and the DEA just made it their aircraft of choice, as Defence…
DJI just opened a competition that could change what drones are capable of. Not the hardware. The brain. The DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026 is not a drone racing event. It is not a photography contest. It is DJI saying, out loud, to every developer and researcher on the planet: we have built…
The photo tells you everything about where Archer Aviation actually is right now. That’s N703AX, the company’s Midnight eVTOL air taxi, flying in conventional airplane mode. The six fixed VTOL-only propellers sit stowed on top while the six tilt-propellers on the wing point forward for cruise flight. It looks like a normal aircraft because, in…
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