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DJI Lito X1 Review After 30 Days: An Affordable Drone Packed With Advanced Features
After 30 days flying the DJI Lito X1, Shawn from Air Photography breaks down its LiDAR avoidance, 4K video, ActiveTrack 360, and sub-250g advantages.
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Bat-Inspired Drone Navigates Smoke, Snow, Darkness
A team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute just pulled off something that sounds simple until you actually think about what cameras and lidar can’t do. They built a palm-sized quadrotor that flies by listening, the same way a bat does, and they got it to dodge obstacles in fog, snow, and pitch darkness with a success…
Skydio
Lee County Deploys Skydio X10 for Sterile Mosquito Releases
Lee County Mosquito Control District made history this week as the first in the United States to release sterile mosquitoes using a drone. They flew a Skydio X10 over targeted neighborhoods in Fort Myers to deliver thousands of lab-reared, sterilized male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The goal is straightforward. Reduce the population of this invasive, disease-carrying…
Drone Research
TU Delft Drone Flies 600 Meters Home On 42 Kilobytes By Copying A Honeybee
TU Delft's Bee-Nav drone flies home from 600 meters without GPS, using a honeybee-inspired neural memory of just 42 kilobytes. Here's how it works.
Technology
Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
New York startup Vermeer sells a $20,000 camera-and-AI kit that lets strike drones navigate without GPS, combat-tested in Ukraine against Russian jamming.
DJI
Autel Fights Back Against the FCC, Michigan Drone Bills Stall, and a Thermal Drone Saves a Life
Welcome to your weekly UAS News Update. I have three stories for you this week: Autel is fighting back against the FCC’s Covered List, the Michigan House passed two drone procurement bills while stalling on airspace restrictions, and a drones-for-good story where a thermal drone saved a life in freezing temperatures. Let’s get to it.…
Ukraine
Belarus Unveils Scanner 2.1 Acoustic Drone Detection System
Belarus has unveiled a new acoustic drone detection system called Scanner 2.1, developed by the Belarusian company InnoTech Solutions and presented at the State Authority for Military Industry on May 19, 2026, according to Belarusian state media reporting. The system is designed specifically to detect drones that conventional radio-frequency monitoring cannot easily track, including the…
Australia
Australia Picks PteroDynamics Transwing VTOL for Navy Logistics
A U.S. drone company just landed its first international defense contract, and it came from a customer that has been thinking hard about how to keep ships supplied across the Pacific. PteroDynamics, a Colorado-based developer of autonomous VTOL aircraft, announced this week that it won a competitive Royal Australian Navy contract to supply P4 Transwing…
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