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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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents: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
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Montgomery County law enforcement is touting the results of its three-month old “Drone as First Responder” (DFR) program, citing an expedited response to 911 calls and a major savings in the use of police resources. The program, which covers the jurisdictions of Silver Spring and Wheaton, features pre-positioned drones atop office roof tops that are... Read More
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Skydio, one of the nation’s leading UAV surveillance companies, has just added a new wrinkle to its state-of-the art X10 aerial drone. The San Mateo, CA-based firm first introduced the aircraft last fall for use in a variety of commercial niches, from infrastructure inspections to public safety. The NYPD quickly scooped up a dozen... Read More
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