Airrow is automating battery and payload swapping for drones
Any given year, the real unsung highlight of re:Mars are the dozen or so startups and researchers who show off their wares on the show floor. There...
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A quick trip to MARS
Greetings from Las Vegas, where it’s 105 degrees outside, but it mostly doesn’t matter because you can’t figure out how to get outside. I’m...
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Airspace Link’s drone tracking platform gathers government customers before going global
Detroit-based Airspace Link has positioned itself as a provider of increasingly important infrastructure in the burgeoning drone services space,...
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Wingcopter details plans to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa
Wingcopter announced a partnership with Continental Drones designed to establish a massive delivery network spanning 49 countries across Sub-Saharan...
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SkySpecs watches wind turbines from above, lands $80M led by Goldman Sachs
As wind energy gains ground in the U.S., SkySpecs is using drones and AI to detect future equipment failures before they grind those giant turbine...
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DJI’s entry-level Mini 3 Pro drone arrives priced at $669
Born as the Mavic Mini, back in late-2019, the Mini hits a nice sweet spot for casual drone flyers. It’s far more capable that the Spark —...
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Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest (and chase a human)
If drones are to take over any of the numerous tasks they are supposed to, they’re going to have to get a lot smarter — and learn to work...
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Aerones raises $9M to inspect wind turbines with robots
Aerones was founded with the mission of using drones to inspect wind turbines; they've pivoted to using robots -- and raised $9M to do it.
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This kamikaze drone sacrifices its own rotors to take down other drones
The prototype of a high-speed racing drone can self-destruct, using its own propellors to spread out a net to take down other drones.
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Treeswift is using drones to monitor forests
Over the past decade, drones have become an increasingly important tool for forest monitoring. They’re a fast and effective way to collect a lot of...
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DJI’s enterprise drone goes foldable
The first DJI Mavic turned the world of consumer drones on its head when it was released back in late-2016. The compact, foldable design launched a...
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Tekever raises $23M for industrial drone technology optimized for maritime surveillance
Industrial drones — the enterprise complement to the unmanned aerial vehicles that consumers own for leisurely use — are taking off in...
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Point One Navigation raises $10M to bring its precise location tech to all vehicles
Drivers who spend any time commuting in a new car or truck have likely experienced ping ponging — a phenomenon when a vehicle equipped with an...
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DroneSeed’s $36M A round makes it a one-stop shop for post-wildfire reforestation
DroneSeed started as a tech-powered alternative to the backbreaking work of large-scale tree planting, but this important task is only one small part...
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Airspace Link raises $10M to make drones safer for both operators and communities
Airspace Link is today announcing it raised a $10 million Series A from Altos Ventures, Thales and others. The Detroit, Michigan-based startup...
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Aevum is building a modular autonomous drone for space and terrestrial deliveries
Logistics and delivery providers are territorially split between Earth and space, with companies like Amazon and FedEx working to master ground, air...
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Wingcopter debuts a triple-drop drone to create ‘logistical highways in the sky’
German startup Wingcopter has launched a new autonomous delivery drone designed to remove a technical bottleneck hindering the growth of drone...
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Exyn Technologies’ drones achieve autonomy milestone with on-board mapping
Exyn Technologies announced Tuesday that it has achieved what it considers the highest level of aerial autonomy reached within the industry. The key...
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UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight...
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DJI releases the Air 2S drone that’s packed with an impressive camera and incredible range
DJI just updated one of its most popular drones, and I’m pleased to report the new features improve an already good product. The new $999 Air...
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H3X rethinks the electric motor to power the next phase of mobility
It’s plain to see that electric vehicles are the future, but there’s more to making that change happen than swapping out a gas motor for...
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DJI launches an all-in-one FPV drone system
DJI has flirted with FPV goggles before, of course. The company got on the burgeoning FPV movement with the launch of its DJI Goggles back in 2016....
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SkyMul’s drones secure rebar on the fly to speed up construction
There are many jobs in the construction industry that fall under the “dull, dirty, and dangerous” category said to be ripe for automation...
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MIT is building a ‘one-stop shop’ for 3D-printing robots
Additive manufacturing has proven an ideal solution for certain tasks, but the technology still lacks more traditional methods in a number of...
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Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities
Emergency response is a time-sensitive business. When fires burn or a driver crashes their car, seconds can mean the difference between saving lives...
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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data
The push for renewable energy has brought offshore wind power to the forefront of many an energy company’s agenda, and that means taking a very...
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Warehouse drones take flight
Drones are neat and fun and all that good stuff (I should probably add the caveat here that I’m obviously not referring to the big, terrible...
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Autonomous cargo drone startup Elroy Air lands $40M Series A
Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, to ramp up the building, testing and...
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