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  • Drones Are Removing Illegal Graffiti Art in Washington State

    Graffiti artists have been using drones for years to spray paint building walls and public infrastructure – especially bridge overpasses – with their colorful artwork, sometimes transforming cityscapes for the better. But now, faced with a rising tide of street graffiti that many angry local residents find vulgar and offensive, some state and city transportation... Read More

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  • Drone Pioneer Zipline Begins Life-Saving Medical Supply Deliveries Across Nigeria  

    South San Francisco-based drone delivery company Zipline first earned its name through emergency medical supply deliveries across Rwanda in 2016.  Unencumbered by strict FAA regulations at home, the company was able to fill an enormous void in Rwanda’s capacity to service its population in need outside the capital of Kigali, owing to Rwanda’s poor rural... Read More

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  • Gender Inclusion in the Drone Industry Is Becoming a Top National Priority

    It’s well known that the technology industry is heavily male-dominated.  Women make up just a small fraction of jet pilots – about 5% – and hold less than 27% of all tech-related jobs.  The same extreme gender imbalance is still found in the unmanned aerial vehicle industry.  But movement is afoot. A growing number of... Read More

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  • Wendy’s Hamburgers Could Soon Be Arriving at Your Doorstep — Via Drone

    Wendy’s has always prided itself on providing more to its customers – more beef in its hamburgers, especially – than other fast-food chains.  Now the multi-billion dollar company is promising to get that beef to you faster than the competition.  How?  By delivering your outsized burger – plus fries and a soda – with a... Read More

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  • Inspired Flight’s “Tomcat” Enterprise Drone is Filling a Void Left By DJI 

    A number of US-based UAV suppliers are starting to fill the void left by the tightening restrictions on the purchase and use of Chinese-made DJI drones.  One company, Inspired Flight, is filling a distinctive niche:  a large medium-lift enterprise drone equipped with sophisticated multispectral cameras that can fly continuously for 40 minutes or more.  The... Read More

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  • Drones to the Rescue in Two Pennsylvania Counties Facing Cutbacks in Emergency Care

    Pennsylvania residents have suffered major cutbacks in emergency medical care services in recent years.  The most vulnerable and needy live in remote rural areas where access to hospitals and clinics is often difficult, especially during inclement weather.  With fewer ambulances available to serve these areas, some budget-strapped county hospitals and health care agencies have decided... Read More

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  • Is the Hydrus the DJI of Underwater Drones?

    Australia-based Advanced Navigation, a world leader in AI robotics and navigation technologies, recently conducted a simulation with its state-of-the art Hydrus drone at a tropical marine test range, known as ReefWorks, on the north eastern coast of Australia near the Great Barrier Reef.  The drone was tasked with mapping objects of interest buried in the... Read More

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  • Why Hasn’t America’s “Heartland” Taken to Drones?

    Some regions of the United States are extremely “drone-friendly” – wide open Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, for example – while others, like clannish small town New England, are not.  But some states that lie in the middle of the country and offer ripe opportunities for drone commerce are still resisting.  South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,... Read More

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  • Drones and Border Patrol: A Rapidly Expanding Mission 

    Unmanned aerial vehicles are widely known for their controversial role in overseas military conflicts, most notably in Ukraine.  Their expanding role in mapping farms and public infrastructure and aiding public safety organizations and emergency responders is also increasingly acknowledged.  But there’s another zone of rising drone involvement that’s remained largely invisible:  the US-Mexico border. “Small... Read More

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  • Faced With Crime Spikes, Police Departments in Miami and San Francisco Expand Their Drone Surveillance Operations

    Police departments in San Francisco and Miami are taking fresh steps to enhance their law enforcement capabilities – in both cases, by expanding their drone surveillance operations in response to rising crime threats. In San Francisco, recent passage of Proposition 90 will allow the SFPD to use facial recognition technology as its newly acquired Skydio... Read More

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