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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…
A filmmaker worked factory night shifts, bought his first drone, and built a production company. Here's what his story means for drone pilots right now.
Three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East are offline. Two were directly struck by drones in the UAE. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a drone strike close enough to knock it out, as The Register reported. This is the first time in history that a military adversary has successfully attacked a…
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are backing Powerus, a West Palm Beach drone roll-up formed just last year, through a reverse merger that will take the company public on Nasdaq under the ticker “PUSA,” expected to close in summer 2026. The transaction—reported this morning by The Wall Street Journal—merges Powerus with Aureus Greenway Holdings…
The solution, apparently, begins with a DJI Matrice 30 at sunset and a thermal camera that sees warm bodies in the dark. The deer never saw it coming. Figuratively speaking.
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