1+ week, 3+ day ago   (430+ words) The two appointments deepen Wing’s engineering bench as the residential drone delivery operator prepares to reach 40 million Americans and expand internationally in 2027. Wing appointed two engineering executives to its C-suite. The moves position the company to scale residential drone delivery…...

5+ day, 49+ min ago   (870+ words) Two recent partnerships from lidar developer Ouster highlight the expanding role of lidar in commercial drone operations. The applications range from surveying utility infrastructure from the air to mapping confined industrial spaces where GPS and conventional cameras may not work....

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (888+ words) As commercial drone programs scale, artificial intelligence may be solving a problem that drones themselves helped create: too much data for people to reasonably review. That was one of the key takeaways from a session at Commercial UAV Expo in…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1131+ words) Robinson Unmanned is emerging as a significant participant in the growing U.S. unmanned defense and logistics sector. Now, the company is demonstrating how that strategy extends well beyond small drones. Last week, the Robinson Unmanned R44 AIRTRUCK completed two days of demonstration…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (840+ words) Amprius Technologies has introduced a silicon-anode battery cell designed for long-endurance uncrewed aircraft. The company says its second-generation SiCore cell delivers 500 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg) at a 1C continuous discharge rate. The company expects to make the cell commercially available…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (495+ words) The new dual-battery aircraft holds full control on a single battery if one fails, keeps a one-to-one flight-to-charge ratio on A2Z AirDocks, and stays under the 55-pound (25 kg) commercial ceiling. The Longtail Dual Cargo integrates the A2Z RDS2 winch for last-mile delivery and…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (454+ words) The Kansas Department of Agriculture partner will run crop spraying, scouting, fertilizing and seeding beyond visual line of sight, following the model of Thales’s North Dakota Vantis deployment. The Kansas network will support crop spraying, scouting, fertilizing and seeding. Kelly…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (647+ words) Teledyne FLIR OEM has been selected to support a U.S. Army initiative aimed at advancing next-generation uncooled thermal imaging technology. The company will participate in the Delivering Unmatched Thermal Capability Hastened (DUTCH) initiative. The program is led by the Office of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (770+ words) Cats may seem an unlikely source of inspiration for drone landing gear. But retractable claws helped researchers at Canada’s Université de Sherbrooke address a difficult problem: landing a drone on steep, slippery ice. The result is the Ice Dart, a…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (396+ words) The partnership feeds low-altitude cooperative aircraft data from uAvionix’s FlightStation network into the Airwise Nexus platform for Skyway Range BVLOS operators. “Reliable surveillance data is the cornerstone of scalable autonomous aviation,” said Thomas Jimenez, Vice President of Uncrewed Systems at…...