Smart Cities: UAVs

January 21, 2021

• UAV 2020 Annual Update - No Signs of Fatigue from DJI

January 14, 2021

• Wing Does Not Like the New Drone ID Rule. Who Owns that Space?

December 17, 2020

• Uber divests another company for $100M+. Good thing it had lots of patents...in ride-hailing

December 3, 2020

• Amazon Leads in Home Security Drones. Should Alarm and Qualcomm Assert?

November 5, 2020

• No GPS? No Problem!

October 22, 2020

• Your First Air Taxi Ride Might Be in a Batplane

July 30, 2020

• Wildlife Conservation Utilizing Drones

July 23, 2020

• Flirtey Granted New Patent on 5 Year Anniversary of First Commercial Drone Delivery

July 16, 2020

• Skydio Raises $100 Million and Launches X2 Commercial Drone

June 25, 2020

• Samsung Integrating UAVs and 5G Technology

June 18, 2020

• Is Medical Monitoring and Assistance the Next Frontier for UAVs?

June 11, 2020

• Progress in Drone-Based Communication Networks

June 4, 2020

• Blackberry and DeDrone Partner for UAV Security

May 29, 2020

• Cutting Cell Tower Costs with Drones
• Home Security Service with Amazon Drones

May 28, 2020

• LG Moves Smartly Into Drone Market

May 14, 2020

• Parrot gets some DroneSense

February 20, 2020

• Parrot and RIIS Partner to Develop AI Applications

February 13, 2020

• New combo satellite/cell communication provider coming. No rockets or towers required.

January 30, 2020

• Interior Department Flip-Flops on Chinese Drones

January 23, 2020

• BIRD Foundation Okays $1 Million Grant for Israel-US drone project

January 16, 2020

• Heathrow goes after pilots, not drones

January 9, 2020

• DJI and Livox kick it up a notch

January 2, 2020

• FAA wants to start tracking drones
• Wal-Mart delivery paying off

December 19, 2019

• Drone Wars: U.S. And E.U. Regulators Face Off

December 13, 2019

• EPRI Awarded $10.7 Million by DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office

December 5, 2019

• Committee on Homeland Security Recommends Passage of Drone Origin Security Act

November 21, 2019

• First-In-The-Nation 50-Mile Drone Corridor Finished

November 14, 2019

• UK government funds 18 projects to develop anti-drone technologies
• QuadSat has first patent published

November 7, 2019

• Mad Max joins USAF

October 31, 2019

• US Interior Department Grounds Chinese Drones
• EagleView Wins $125M Patent Infringement Award, Sales Halt Against Verisk

October 24, 2019

• Alphabet’s Wing begins making first commercial drone deliveries in the US

October 16, 2019

• New Drone Bill Would Extend Private Property to 200 FT

October 10, 2019

• Skyward releases advanced airspace intelligence for drones
• Porsche and Boeing building eVTOL

October 2, 2019

• NC again first in flight... with UPS

September 26, 2019

• BAE buys Prismatic for solar-powered drones

September 19, 2019

• Alphabet takes Wing to Virigina, partners with FedEx and Walgreens

September 11, 2019

• Syracuse picks Verizon 5G network
• Drones get license plates

September 5, 2019

• Blackberry comeback?

August 29, 2019

• VOXL from ModalAI helps Uber Eats test BVLOS drone delivery of food

August 23, 2019

• Cobalt Robotics Secures $35M to Expand Mobile Security Robot Services

August 15, 2019

• Donecle Drones Inspecting Aircraft

August 8, 2019

• The first true BVLOS drone flight

August 1, 2019

• $7.75 million Air Force contract
• UPS's drone subsidiary takes flight

July 26, 2019

• The Chinook State grows its flying power
• Supporting national drones

July 18, 2019

• Avoiding drone rush hour
• Robots in the air

July 11, 2019

• Boeing's drone sales soar higher and higher
• FLIR's black hornets are to be feared

July 3, 2019

• Drones connecting the US and China

June 27, 2019

• Phones + Cars = Drones

June 20, 2019

• Avoiding drone-plane collisions

June 13, 2019

• Canadian drone partnership
• Mega aerospace merger is taking flight

June 6, 2019

• Amazon drone deliveries in 2019 as promised?
• Australia pays for American aerospace once again
• Parrot to defend the eagle

May 30, 2019

• Who is Top Flight Technologies?

May 23, 2019

• NASA is preparing to manage drone traffic
• Drone delivery in China

May 16, 2019

• Amazon's blimp, but in military form
• Two drone startups will lift each other up

May 9, 2019

• Partnership creates UAS airspace
• Raytheon succeeds in zapping drones

May 2, 2019

• America gets its first Wing
• Loon raises $125 million along with its balloons

April 25, 2019

• Japan expands its no-fly zone for drones

April 23, 2019

• DJI drones helped save Notre-Dame

April 18, 2019

• Drones serving the public
• Wing launches first drone delivery service in Australia

April 11, 2019

• Amazon's drone-laying blimp
• The Marine Corps wants to fight drones with drones

April 3, 2019

• Facebook abandoned another drone project
• DJI launches new imaging software for drones

March 27, 2019

• Medical supply drones now active in the US

March 26, 2019

• Delivering blood in Ghana with drones

March 21, 2019

• 5G network and 1 million drones
• New law for fighting fire with drones

March 12, 2019

• Australia buys military drones from Northrop Grumman
• Drone assesses bomb damage

March 7, 2019

• Drone vs Drone

March 4, 2019

• Talkgroup calling for drone fleet - By Motorola
• Distributed Core Architecture for Wireless Communication Networks
• DJI combines LIDAR and deep machine learning

February 27, 2019

• Mitsubishi Electric can detect cyberattacks on drones, cars, and robots
• Drone hitchhikes rides on moving vehicle!
• DJI deploys 400 flying farmworker-bots
• Autel Robotics recreates homicide scene
• Prodrone is using UAVs to search for lost children
• GeoNetwork UAVs enforce geofencing

February 21, 2019

• Market Highlight - US may have to export weaponized drones.

February 20, 2019

• Millions unknowingly helped Google create AI drone-targeting technology
• Intel files a slew of patents (23)
• The US Army awarded FLIR $39.6 million for their Black Hornet PRS
• DJI launches geofencing GEO
• UAVs displacing parking Nazis

February 13, 2019

• Aerovironment introduces next-gen precision agriculture drone
• Spin-Lander
• Intel working in multiple areas
• Taxi for Delivery UAVs

February 8, 2019

• Virtual Wall of Drones
• Amazon Detecting Windows
• UAV Optical Caliper
• Mine Surveyor
• Fog Bank Harvester
• Gassed-up Drone
• Drones Ape Migratory Bird Behavior for Swarming Rotation
• UAVs Detect Solar Panel Defects

February 7, 2019

• Superbowl Halftime Show. By Intel

January 30, 2019

• Swarming, docking UAVs from NASA

January 29, 2019

• Blackberry IDs Shipping Containers
• DJI and Microsoft spotting fruit
• Walmart using hash chain database to manage tasks
• Veniam and Bosch Trading Data in IOMT (Internet of Moving Things)
• Stockpile management

January 24, 2019

• Using Cellular Infrastructure for UAV Control

January 23, 2019

• Market Highlights - Drone Sky Map

January 16, 2019

• P&S Intelligence says the Asia-Pacific anti-drone market will to reach $2,105 million by 2025.
• AR glasses with event and user action control of drones
• Multiple tethered vehicles for payload lifting
• Privacy-Sensitive Routing
• Janitor UAV
• V2V Data Sharing by Qualcomm

January 10, 2019

• Miami Beach Cops Use Surveillance Blimp to Get Around Drone Ban
• Raytheon tracks drones with LIDAR fence
• Graffiti drones
• Verizon showcases 5G with NYTimes, Disney, Medivis and Skyward at CES 2019

December 19, 2018

• Intel doing reverse DRM geo-fencing for UAVs
• Ford keeps an emergency alert UAV in the trunk
• Almog Rescue Systems deploys fire-fighting UAVs from aircraft
• Veniam is managing data disseminating in a network of moving things

December 13, 2018

• Microsoft rescues DJI in battle with Autel Robotics
• Port of Amsterdam trials Martek Anti-Drone Systems