Drone Pioneer Zipline Begins Life-Saving Medical Supply Deliveries Across Nigeria  
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17h ago
South San Francisco-based drone delivery company Zipline first earned its name through emergency medical supply deliveries across Rwanda in 2016.  Unencumbered by strict FAA regulations at home, the company was able to fill an enormous void in Rwanda’s capacity to service its population in need outside the capital of Kigali, owing to Rwanda’s poor rural road infrastructure, a condition made even worse by heavy seasonal rains. Zipline quickly assumed responsibility for 75% of the country’s medical supply deliveries outside Kigali.  A year later it was tapped to take over  medica ..read more
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Gender Inclusion in the Drone Industry Is Becoming a Top National Priority
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by Scott
17h ago
It’s well known that the technology industry is heavily male-dominated.  Women make up just a small fraction of jet pilots – about 5% – and hold less than 27% of all tech-related jobs.  The same extreme gender imbalance is still found in the unmanned aerial vehicle industry.  But movement is afoot. A growing number of elementary and secondary schools are adding drones to their standard curricula and after-school training programs.  Drone summer camps are also proliferating nationwide.  Drones are viewed as a fun and creative way to generate interest in STEM topics amo ..read more
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Wendy’s Hamburgers Could Soon Be Arriving at Your Doorstep — Via Drone
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by Scott
3d ago
Wendy’s has always prided itself on providing more to its customers – more beef in its hamburgers, especially – than other fast-food chains.  Now the multi-billion dollar company is promising to get that beef to you faster than the competition.  How?  By delivering your outsized burger – plus fries and a soda – with a drone. After a year-long pilot in Australia, Wendy’s and DoorDash are turning to one of the world’s leading UAV delivery services – Alphabet’s Wing – to begin a full-scale rollout of the new operation at a single Wendy’s franchise in the United States – located in ..read more
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Inspired Flight’s “Tomcat” Enterprise Drone is Filling a Void Left By DJI 
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by Scott
5d ago
A number of US-based UAV suppliers are starting to fill the void left by the tightening restrictions on the purchase and use of Chinese-made DJI drones.  One company, Inspired Flight, is filling a distinctive niche:  a large medium-lift enterprise drone equipped with sophisticated multispectral cameras that can fly continuously for 40 minutes or more.  The 7-year old San Luis Obispo, CA-based company introduced the IF800 “Tomcat” last June, just a month after releasing another cutting edge model –  the heavy-lift IF1200A.  A growing number of industrial operators seek ..read more
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Drones to the Rescue in Two Pennsylvania Counties Facing Cutbacks in Emergency Care
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by Scott
1w ago
Pennsylvania residents have suffered major cutbacks in emergency medical care services in recent years.  The most vulnerable and needy live in remote rural areas where access to hospitals and clinics is often difficult, especially during inclement.  With fewer ambulances available to serve these areas, some budget-strapped county hospitals and health care agencies have decided to turn to drones to fill the void. In south-central York County, for example, officials with WellSpan Health announced in late February a plan to use drones to deliver prescriptions and medical supplies to pa ..read more
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Is the Hydrus the DJI of Underwater Drones?
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by Scott
1w ago
Australia-based Advanced Navigation, a world leader in AI robotics and navigation technologies, recently conducted a simulation with its state-of-the art Hydrus drone at a tropical marine test range, known as ReefWorks, on the north eastern coast of Australia near the Great Barrier Reef.  The drone was tasked with mapping objects of interest buried in the area’s deep ocean seabed.  Advanced Navigation has conducted simulations with the Hydrus before – mainly to monitor the decay of coral reefs or to search for shipwrecked vessels – but this was the first with a security-related purp ..read more
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Why Hasn’t America’s “Heartland” Taken to Drones?
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by Scott
1w ago
Some regions of the United States are extremely “drone-friendly” – wide open Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, for example – while others, like clannish small town New England, are not.  But some states that lie in the middle of the country and offer ripe opportunities for drone commerce are still resisting.  South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois – are as close to the American “heartland” as you can get.  But their antipathy toward drone commerce is striking. The Fairfax, VA-based Mercatus Center ranks all US states on an annual scorecard that evaluates their ..read more
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Drones and Border Patrol: A Rapidly Expanding Mission 
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by Scott
1w ago
Unmanned aerial vehicles are widely known for their controversial role in overseas military conflicts, most notably in Ukraine.  Their expanding role in mapping farms and public infrastructure and aiding public safety organizations and emergency responders is also increasingly acknowledged.  But there’s another zone of rising drone involvement that’s remained largely invisible:  the US-Mexico border. “Small drones are really filling a critical niche between fixed surveillance systems and crewed aviation or manned aviation assets because of their range, because of their price po ..read more
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Faced With Crime Spikes, Police Departments in Miami and San Francisco Expand Their Drone Surveillance Operations
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by Scott
1w ago
Police departments in San Francisco and Miami are taking fresh steps to enhance their law enforcement capabilities – in both cases, by expanding their drone surveillance operations in response to rising crime threats. In San Francisco, recent passage of Proposition 90 will allow the SFPD to use facial recognition technology as its newly acquired Skydio X10 drones fly over public gatherings and pursue criminal suspects, a measure expressly forbidden under police restrictions passed back in 2019. In addition, the department will be able to retain drone video footage for longer periods than prev ..read more
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Maryland’s Drone as a First Responder Program Racks Up Early Successes
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by Scott
1w ago
Montgomery County law enforcement is touting the results of its three-month old “Drone as First Responder” (DFR) program, citing an expedited response to 911 calls and a major savings in the use of police resources. The program, which covers the jurisdictions of Silver Spring and Wheaton, features pre-positioned drones atop office roof tops that are dispatched to the scene of prospective crimes in advance of arriving field officers.  DFR advocates say the drones provide local police with “situational intelligence”  that allows them to adjust their field operations to the tactical re ..read more
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