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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…
DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo Drops to $1,099 on Amazon
The DJI Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo dropped to $1,099 on Amazon over the weekend, which is $500 off the $1,599 list and at or near the lowest price it’s been since launch. I fly a Mini 5 Pro…
Amazon Prime Air Picks Baton Rouge For Summer MK30 Drone Delivery Launch
Amazon will launch Prime Air drone delivery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana this summer, putting between 12 and 20 MK30 drones into operation from a new facility near the company’s Cortana fulfillment warehouse. The service will deliver packages weighing up to…
DJI Lito X1 Matches Mini 5 Pro Camera Quality In UK Creator’s Blind Test, At Almost Half The Price
A blind side-by-side camera test from UK YouTube creator DM Productions concluded that the £369 DJI Lito X1 (no official US price; not sold in the United States) holds up against the £689 / $759 DJI Mini 5 Pro in…
Dallas Adds $10.3M to Axon for World Cup Counter-Drone
The Dallas City Council approved a $10.3 million FEMA grant Wednesday that expands the city’s existing Axon contract to cover counter-drone detection, tracking, and mitigation ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as reported by Kera News. The grant moves…
Thermal Drone Finds 91-Year-Old in Wisconsin Woods at Night
Portage County Sheriff’s Office deputies located a missing 91-year-old woman with a thermal-equipped drone at 11:51 p.m. on May 5, roughly 43 minutes after the initial call came in. She’d walked away from a residential care facility in Plover, Wisconsin…
Drone Delivery Sandwiches Land at Papa Johns Stores
Papa Johns is the second major pizza chain to go airborne this year. The brand teamed up with Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery subsidiary, to launch a pilot program in Indian Trail, North Carolina on May 11, as PMQ Pizza reported.…
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…