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DJI Easter Sale around the world, but not in the USA and Canada
DJI just launched their Easter Sale earlier this month and it offers you some nice discounts. The sale is ongoing in Europe, the UK, Australia, and Singapore. Surprisingly, and I would argue, disappointingly there does not seem to be a…
World’s first documented drone delivery of insulin happened in Ireland
The international medical team that accomplished the world’s first documented drone delivery of insulin for a patient living in a remote community described the project in an ENDO 2020 abstract that will be published in the Journal of the Endocrine…
Mysterious drone tells New Yorkers to keep social distance. FAA starts investigation.
Here’s an interesting story. A mysterious drone tells New Yorkers to keep a social distance, but it is not an official NYPD drone. No, this is a drone from the ‘Anti-COVID-19 volunteer drone task force’, which seems to be a…
French police explains how they use DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise to fight Coronavirus
A French police officer explains how he uses the DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise to fight the Coronavirus in Doubs, France, close to the Swiss border. The DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise is outfitted with a loudspeaker. This allows the police to…
Zipline is ready to deploy medical drone deliveries to fight COVID-19
Here’s another great article about ZIpline and the fact that this drone company is ready to deploy medical drone deliveries to fight COVID-19 across the United States. It makes you wonder if the FAA will be able to keep up…
Search and Rescue drone finds stranded hikers in the dark
A Search and Rescue drone was used to find stranded hikers in the dark in Weber Country, Utah. The pair had wondered off-trail by accident and became stranded on steep cliff last Friday. When they realized that it had become…
Jordan joins growing list of countries deploying drones to fight Coronavirus
Jordan joins a growing list of countries in the MiddleEast that are deploying drones to fight the Coronavirus. On Sunday, police in Jordan started to deploy drones to enforce curfews, deliver public health announcements and even monitor people’s temperatures.
Police drone helps to find missing 12-year old boy in England
A police drone helps to find a missing 12-year old boy, who had disappeared overnight. Police officers had started their search after he was reported missing just after 8 p.m. in Nottinghamshire on Saturday, April 4th. This story is our…
Skydio 2 drone counts warehouse inventory with Ware
Ware, a San Francisco-based technology company, has launched the first warehouse inventory automation system built on Skydio 2, the world’s smartest drone. Tracking and counting inventory cost-effectively is one of the $1.9 trillion warehousing industry’s greatest challenges. Ware’s product was…
Coronavirus: Surveillance drones put into service to enforce curfew in India
Within 24 hours after the surveillance drones were put into service in Jalandhar, India, 20 people had been arrested for violating curfew norms that were implemented to stop the Coronavirus from spreading. The unmanned aircraft have been used to enhance…
Aha delivers coffee by drone in Reykjavik, Iceland
The WSJ had a great article [paywall] about deliveries by drones last week. It covers Wing Aviation, Amazon, DJI, UPS, Flytrex and the lesser-known company, and a subsidiary from Flytrex, Aha that delivers coffee by drone in Iceland. Here are…
DJI Matrice 210 checks body temperature at hospital in Javits Center
Today, we learn that a DJI Matrice 210 with a Zenmuse XT2 Dual thermal camera is being used at the entrance of the makeshift hospital in the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Drone video shows what lunch time for dolphins looks like in Tampa, Florida
Pretty amazing footage in this drone video, that shows what seems to be lunchtime for the dolphins in Tampa and St. Pete area beaches in Florida. The footage was shared by See Through Canoe on Youtube.
Hiker lost in Alaskan woods is found with help of a drone
In our second story of today about drones for good, we turn to Alaska. Police in Anchorage used a drone with a thermal camera to quickly find a hiker who had gotten lost in the dense woods. Update: it was…
Dog found safe by drone team after missing for six days in Swiss Alps
Last week, a dog that had been missing for 6 days was found by a drone team on a steep cliff in the Swiss Alps, near Levron / Val de Bagnes. The drone that was outfitted with a thermal camera…
Drone video shows revelers dancing away in ‘isolation disco’
Hundreds of revelers in Newcastle in the UK were dancing away in an ‘isolation disco’ during the coronavirus lockdown. The incredible sight was captured by a drone and shown in the video below.
Increased pressure on FAA to relax drone regulations in fight against coronavirus
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, we have seen the use of drones expand quite dramatically in a number of countries. For instance in China, Spain, and France local police are using unmanned aircraft to communicate to the public to…
Draganfly’s ‘pandemic drone’ can remotely detect people with a fever
Draganfly, an award-winning, industry-leading manufacturer within the commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (“UAV”), Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (“RPAS”), and unmanned vehicle sector, today announced that it has been selected as the exclusive global systems integrator for a project (the “Vital Intelligence…
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