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Craving Girl Scout cookies? What if a drone could deliver Thin Mints?

2021-04-28T23:11:37+0000

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a drone delivering Girl Scout cookies! The Virginia Skyline Girl Scout troop has teamed up with Wing, a commercial delivery drone company, to distribute boxes of the famous cookies to local cookie cravers.

Drone Down! This Is What Happens When You Fly Into an Active Volcano

2021-04-28T19:12:07+0000

Imagine listening to Bon Jovi singing "Blaze Of Glory" while watching this. Bjorn Steinbekk has been filming the volcanic eruptions in Iceland for weeks. In a ceremonious — and completely self-destructive — farewell, he piloted that faithful drone straight into the belly of the volcanic beast. And the footage is unlike anything you’ve seen.

Back to the Future: Drone-like hoverboards that carry people are taking off

2021-04-28T18:12:45+0000

We’re starting to see more videos of hoverboard style aircraft appearing on videos. The question is, what are the regulations? What category do they fit into within various countries aviation laws and regulations?

Parrot offers AR situational awareness to pro ANAFI users

2021-04-28T16:11:11+0000

Parrot has struck a deal with Rapid Imaging, to equip its drone videos with geospatial augmented reality (AR) capabilities.Think of it as Google Maps features being transposed on aerial video displays, allowing specific locations to be pinned or geocoded in real-time using GPS-provided coordinates. Before you get too excited, it is a premium feature requiring a subscription. But it has many applications in commercial and government sectors.

Garuda Drones To Sanitise Bengaluru Hospitals, Public Buildings

2021-04-28T13:13:07+0000

Chennai: Drone-as-a-Service company Garuda Aerospace has been flying its drones spraying anti-coronavirus disinfectant.

Cloudless: UAV startup's drone swoops through the stratosphere nearly 25000 meters above Earth

2021-04-28T12:11:16+0000

Tweener dilemma. The demand for UAVs like the Cloudless craft will only grow as cheap stratospheric drone options evolve. Aerospace giants ...

Exyn's LiDAR drones achieve Level 4 aerial autonomy, aka humans not needed

2021-04-28T11:11:48+0000

This is why Exyn has adapted SAE's standards for aerial applications and defined its own levels of drone autonomy - a practice that competitors like ...