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Ocean County Drone Reaches Swimmer After Lifeguards Left
An Ocean County sheriff's drone dropped a Restube flotation device to a young swimmer caught in a rip current off Surf City after lifeguards had gone home for the day.
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Missing hikers found, thermal cameras at night, drones over floodwater — SAR missions, documented.
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Fire and Rescue NSW AI Drone Finds Lost Hikers in 5 Hours
Two hikers who went missing off the Dead Horse Gap track in Kosciuszko National Park were located within five hours after Fire and Rescue NSW deployed a drone team using AI-assisted detection software. The rescue is the agency's first operational AI find, and it offers a rare look at how human pilots and low-threshold machine vision actually work together in the field.
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Cockroach Drones Are Searching Venezuela's Earthquake Rubble
Cyborg cockroaches fitted with electronic backpacks are now searching earthquake rubble in Venezuela, showing how biohybrid rescue tools have moved from lab experiments to real disaster response. The insects can crawl through voids that rescuers and wheeled robots cannot reach, carrying sensors that may help locate survivors.
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St. Cloud Drone Finds Missing Man After Air Search Fails
A St. Cloud police drone found 73-year-old Ronald Statz alive in a Stearns County cornfield after a dozen agencies, including a State Patrol plane and a DNR helicopter, searched for hours.
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DJI Teases New Enterprise Drone “For The Priceless Below,” And Everything Points At A Matrice 30 Successor
DJI will announce a new enterprise drone on July 8, 2026, at 8 AM EDT. The teaser, published by DJI Enterprise on July 2 under the tagline “For the Priceless Below,” shows a darkened silhouette of a quadcopter with extended landing gear, a gimbal payload slung under the body, and what appears to be a…
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DJI Matrice 4D Now Flies Compliant BVLOS Without a Dock, and Europe’s Operators Are the Winners
DJI has started publicly promoting a firmware change that lets its Matrice 4D Series fly compliant European beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions from a handheld controller instead of a fixed docking station. The company’s Enterprise arm laid out the details in a June 12 blog post and pushed it to a wider audience through an X thread on…
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TCSO Drones Will Answer 911 Calls Before Deputies Do
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office is about to get its own fleet of 911 response drones. The county is finalizing a deal with Motorola Solutions to run a Drone as First Responder program built on BRINC hardware, the same setup the Porterville City Council already approved for its police department. The Tulare County Board of…
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Drone Pilot’s Motor Trick Warns Surfer of Circling Shark
A drone pilot in Northern California spotted a shark circling a surfer on June 10, then used the aircraft itself to push the man out of the water before anything happened. Nick Bertocchini was flying over Seascape Beach in Aptos when the shark moved in behind a surfer named Rex and began to circle. Instead…
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