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The police and fire departments of Fremont, California have just added a powerful new asset to their crime fighting arsenal: a “first-responder” drone that can arrive at prospective crime and accidents scenes ahead of field officers to provide them with real-time situational intelligence via live streaming video, even in the dark. The drone first-responder program,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:You can add Denver, CO to the growing list of US cities where FAA-approved drones can fly on a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) basis to deliver store goods and groceries to local residents. While most of these cities are located in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas – with drone companies like Drone Up,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Maine, like most of New England, isn’t known as a drone industry hotbed. Like neighboring Vermont and New Hampshire, the state hasn’t moved to pass legislation that would speed the pace of drone commerce. In fact, resistance to drone flying due to privacy concerns, especially in small towns in rural Maine, remains high. But quietly,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:2024 promises to be a banner year for small package delivery drones, with several FAA-certified UAV companies – including Zipline, Drone-Up and Wing – surging to the forefront of the US market. But they shouldn’t get too comfortable. Across the pond, some lesser-known drone companies, including Ireland’s Manna, and a little-known Norwegian upstart, Aviant, with... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Critics of unmanned aerial vehicles often raise concerns about real and potential violations of personal and business privacy. But some of those apparent violations could well be in the public interest. For the past 5 years, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, or OSHA, has pushed for the authority to deploy aerial drones as a... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drones are increasingly well-known for helping first-responders find and rescue lost and missing persons. But what about lost and missing animals? Jim Brice, a dog owner in Antwerp, NY, lost track of Shelby, his service dog last month, and grew frantic after several days of intensive searching for his pet. That’s when he decided to... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with the Japanese telecommunications company NTT Communications, have begun deploying underwater drones to monitor the development of coral reefs subject to deterioration due to climate change. The remotely-piloted custom-built drones, the first to be used in Japan for the purpose of marine research, ... Read More
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Law enforcement drones are sweeping across America, helping local police catch fleeing criminal suspects and rescuing lost and missing persons. Occasionally, their high-powered video cameras even catch a perpetrator red-handed. It happened last week in Beverly Hills, California, when a BHPD police drone, responding to a house alarm, caught a burglar climbing from the... Read More
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In July 2016, one of the first drones flying commercially in the United States carried a box of Slurpees, snacks and a chicken sandwich from a 7-11 convenience store in Nevada to a nearby customer’s back garden. The drone carrier, then known as Flirtey, envisioned a booming business future for itself and for the... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:San Francisco-based Mighty Fly is a good example of a small drone company with outsized global ambitions – and the cutting-edge design expertise and fierce entrepreneurial drive needed to realize them. In just three years since its founding, the firm – owned and directed by Manal Habib– a remarkable woman in an industry still heavily... Read More
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