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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.
James City County, Virginia will begin dispatching AED-carrying drones to suspected cardiac arrest calls on August 1, starting a five-mile pilot around Fire Station 1 in Toano. The Duke- and VCU-led RESTORe-CARE study is expanding from North Carolina into a second live U.S. county program.
The European Commission has formally launched the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance, pairing nine EU companies with nine Ukrainian manufacturers behind a joint drone and counter-drone production push targeting the end of 2026. The move turns months of bilateral defense-industrial deals into formal EU policy and puts companies like Quantum Systems and Vyriy on the founding board.
The National Press Photographers Association told the FAA its proposed Section 2209 drone rule would create opaque, potentially permanent no-fly zones with no expiration, no review clock, and no practical protection for newsgathering — the same structural fixes drone pilots already asked for.
Ruston Police Department says its BRINC drone Patsy helped officers identify and arrest a fraud suspect in the agency’s first drone-assisted arrest, underscoring how Drone as First Responder programs are spreading into smaller U.S. departments.
After two months of flying and editing with DJI's Avata 360, Josh Spires says the 455g hybrid FPV drone gets the core pitch right: capture the full sphere, frame the shot later, and still keep a conventional single-lens mode when you want it.
Northwestern University says its single-motor Phantom Twist drone is roughly ten times harder to see in flight than a same-size quadcopter, turning persistence of vision into a real-world drone-detection problem.
Ukrainian long-range drones hit two Wildberries logistics hubs that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says were supplying drone-production components and navigation equipment to Russia's war effort, in the deadliest deep strike inside Russia in more than two years.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says drones and advanced thermal imaging are now part of Canada's national wildfire response, bringing DroneXL's thermal-drone fireline coverage into a G7 leader's public briefing for the first time.
Reno police used a BRINC Drone as First Responder aircraft to track an armed suspect through a 30-minute manhunt and guide officers to a calm arrest. The incident also shows how BRINC is competing for a growing share of the U.S. public-safety drone market.
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. This week: the FCC moves against eight alleged DJI front companies, San Francisco police drone feeds were exposed online for months, BRINC raises $125 million, and Duke Health is now flying defibrillators to real 911 calls.
Boom Supersonic has turned Blake Scholl’s Mach 1 RC challenge into an $800,000 competition with judges, co-sponsors, and formal rules, but the fine print may be the hardest part: entrants must clear a legal and regulatory path that does not obviously exist today.
Tornyol says its 40-gram autonomous micro drone achieved an air-to-air insect kill and is being developed to hunt mosquitoes by identifying their wingbeat signature with ultrasonic sonar.
Leaked photos and an earlier FCC filing suggest DJI is testing an Osmo 360 II prototype with a larger battery, pointing to a late-stage refresh of its 360 camera lineup.
North Charleston police demonstrated a Skydio X10 Drone as First Responder program they want to launch by July 2027, but funding still has to clear a December budget vote.
New York State Police troopers brought three drones to Warwick's Junior Police Academy, letting cadets race the aircraft, watch live feeds and learn how law-enforcement drone pilots are trained.
Orlando International Airport approved development of an eVTOL vertistop near its train station, putting demonstration air taxi flights within reach if the FAA signs off and construction stays on track.
Axon Vision says its new ForceField system detected, tracked and destroyed FPV drone targets in live-fire trials, but the public footage raises a harder question: were the targets really fast FPV drones or slower camera aircraft?
Intelligent Energy unveiled a 120 kW hydrogen fuel cell powertrain for heavy-lift fixed-wing drones while announcing the largest commercial UAV order in its history. The new IE-FLIGHT 120 targets aircraft carrying payloads from 331 to 1,653 pounds.
DJI promoted its Mic Mini wireless microphone on TikTok with an AI-generated presenter, then deleted the ad after creators pushed back. The campaign turned a product promotion aimed at creators into a debate about trust and whether the demonstration itself could be believed.
The Minneapolis City Council deadlocked 6-6, killing a free 75-day Skydio Drone as First Responder trial after members cited the company’s ties to ICE and the Israeli military, despite neighboring cities expanding similar programs.
DJI has released Avata 360 firmware v01.00.0500 after reports that the earlier v01.00.0300 update caused black-screen video loss in FPV goggles, a failure that hit the one system FPV pilots cannot afford to lose.
Quantum Systems says its Apex Recordhunter experimental aircraft reached 699 km/h in June testing, a number that would blow past today’s electric-aircraft benchmark if it clears FAI certification, while feeding future interceptor-drone development.
Campus Guardian Angel pitched its non-lethal school-defense drones to hundreds of officers and administrators at the Arkansas Safe Schools Conference, arguing that a five-second launch and 15-second intercept can buy the minutes police usually do not have in an active shooter attack.
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