3+ day, 19+ hour 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....

4+ day, 21+ 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   (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, 2+ 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, 4+ 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   (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…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1005+ words) By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill From training on “low-tech” counter-UAS tactics, such as shooting at “hostile” drones with shotguns, to becoming a leading proving ground for testing out the latest one-way attack drones for the U.S. Army, the…...