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Drone Security Is The FCC’s Job, Not DOT’s: Owen Morgan Tells XPONENTIAL Robotics Panel
Brendan Schulman, the former Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs at DJI who left for Boston Dynamics in September 2021, returned to an AUVSI XPONENTIAL stage in Detroit on Tuesday to moderate a robotics policy panel that opened with…
Manna Air Delivery’s Healy At XPONENTIAL: Manufacturing Moving From Dublin To Tulsa
Six weeks ago, in a press release issued through the Irish government’s Enterprise Ireland agency, Manna Air Delivery CEO Bobby Healy called Ireland “the foundation of everything we do” and committed to designing and building drones in Dublin. On Tuesday…
FAA Air Traffic COO Tells XPONENTIAL: ‘We See Drones As Aircraft, Operators As Pilots’
The drone industry has spent two decades arguing that uncrewed aircraft are aircraft and that commercial operators belong in the National Airspace System on equal terms with crewed aviation. On Tuesday morning at XPONENTIAL Detroit, the senior FAA official who…
Knightwerx Leaves California, Plants Flag in Scottsdale
Another defense tech company has made the call on California. Knightwerx, a tactical drone developer that built its name making compact military UAS, has moved its headquarters from Camarillo to Scottsdale, and it’s already hiring, as Hoodline reported. The move…
Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into…
South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
South Carolina lawmakers are closing a gap that’s been frustrating law enforcement for years. A bill dubbed the South Carolina Drone Regulation and Public Safety Act cleared a Senate committee unanimously this week, following a unanimous House vote last month,…
Vancouver Police Deploy DJI Matrice Fleet for FIFA World Cup 2026 Security
Vancouver Police Department officials confirmed they will use a robust drone program featuring DJI Matrice 400, Matrice 300, Matrice 30, and Matrice 4 series platforms to monitor crowd movements and support public safety operations during the FIFA World Cup 2026…
Waiv Robotics Unveils Autonomous VTOL Landing System for Ships
Waiv Robotics, a London-based maritime tech startup, has unveiled a gyro-stabilized platform that enables fully autonomous takeoff and landing of VTOL drones on moving vessels at sea, as reported by The Robot Report. The system works with existing drones without…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM, DJI FCC Deadline Looms, and 218 Wildfire Drone Incursions in 2025
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. I have five stories for you this week — it’s a longer one, but there’s a lot of important information packed in. FAA Files Long-Overdue Section 2209 NPRM First up, the FAA has…
Amazon Prime Air Targets Central New York With 176-Square-Mile Drone Delivery Zone Around Clay
Amazon plans to operate Prime Air drone deliveries across a 176-square-mile (456 km²) area of Central New York from its Clay fulfillment center, the company told residents at a public information session in Syracuse on Wednesday evening. The proposed coverage…
Amazon Begins First UK Drone Deliveries In Darlington Under A Trial-Only Approval
Amazon Prime Air made its first UK parcel deliveries in Darlington, County Durham this week, the company’s first commercial drone operation outside the United States. The service runs as a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) trial through the end of 2026,…