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A white and black Exedy Ayre CX agricultural spray drone with a cream liquid tank and blue landing gear hovers just above a green cornfield

Drones for Agriculture

Exedy Wants $1,000 for a Spot in Line for Its Michigan Spray Drone

Exedy Drones opened $1,000 Ayre CX spray drone reservations through dealers. $750 stays refundable until January; first deliveries target spring 2027.

Haye KestelooNov 4

Rain-soaked gray DJI Matrice 5TD drone with folded propellers sitting on the landing pad of DJI Dock 4, lit red by the dock's lights at dusk

Search & Rescue

DJI Docks Put Tatra Rescuers Over Poland's Highest Peak in 6 Minutes

Poland's TOPR tested three DJI Dock 3s and a Dock 4 in the Tatras. A docked drone reaches Rysy in six minutes. US rescue teams can't buy Dock 4.

Haye KestelooNov 4

White DJI ROMO 2 robot vacuum parked in front of its tall white self-cleaning base station against a grey studio background

DJI

DJI Gives ROMO 2 Its Drone Offline Mode, Eight Months After the Hack

DJI's Local Data Mode cuts the ROMO 2 vacuum off from the cloud, eight months after 7,000 ROMOs leaked camera feeds, on a robot Americans cannot buy.

Haye KestelooNov 4

Pearl White DJI Osmo Pocket 4P held in a hand, its screen showing pavement at 18.0x zoom in 4K30 video mode with a Japanese menu label

FIRMWARE

DJI Pocket 4P Update Reaches 18x Zoom, Owner Already Wants A Limiter

A Pocket 4P owner in Japan shows 18x digital zoom and new stage and sunset modes after an update DJI has not documented, and asks for a zoom limiter.

Haye KestelooNov 3

Close-up of the black DJI Osmo Pocket 4P gimbal head, its 3x telephoto lens beside a second lens marked 1-inch, against a dark background

FCC Filing

China Vows More Countermeasures as FCC Cuts Off Chinese Test Labs

China opposes the FCC vote ending recognition of mainland test labs from December 2028, says the US stalled talks, and threatens further countermeasures.

Haye KestelooOct 30

Night view of the DJI and Hasselblad store front in Tokyo, a lit DJI | Hasselblad sign under a glass-walled second floor, with a wet sidewalk in front

DJI Store

DJI's First Japan Concept Store Opens With Gear the US Never Got

DJI and Hasselblad open a two-floor concept store in Tokyo's Omotesando on October 31, with a flight cage and Mavic 4 Pro and Osmo Pocket 4P posters.

Haye KestelooOct 30

DJI Matrice 5TD drone seen from below in flight beside a steel transmission tower against a blue sky

EXPLAINER

DJI's 1280 Thermal Drones Skip the US. Economists Saw This Coming

DJI's Matrice 5TD and a November 5 folding thermal drone can't be sold in the US. Research says the ban removes US drone makers' reason to improve.

Haye KestelooOct 30

Front view of a dark gray DJI drone gimbal with a large telephoto lens top left, a round thermal lens with a greenish coating below it, and three smaller camera windows stacked on the right, on a drone with folding arms

TEASER

DJI Teases a Folding Thermal Drone for November 5 With the 5TD Gimbal

DJI Enterprise's November 5 teaser opens on a thermal sensor and shows the Matrice 5TD's gimbal under a drone with folding arms. The 5TD doesn't fold.

Haye KestelooOct 29

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