Medical drones to cover more ground in DRC
Kinshasa, DRC – following a successful two-year trial period, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – in partnership …
January 2021
South African drone spraying start-up gets special licence
Maybe the 20s will be the decade of the drone after all, at least in South Africa. Only a few months after granting the Western Cape gove…
The 2021 drone regulations landscape
Ever since drone technology started making solid inroads into the mainstream commercial and industrial operations, the laws governing them h…
The case for BVLOS drone deliveries
In the below article, Elsight Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Roee Kashee presents the case for governments worldwide to allow beyo…
Sprayer drones for Mondi's forests
An innovative silviculture contractor in Mpumalanga, South Africa is pushing the frontiers of technology, turning to drones for pre-planting…
Maybe its time for XAG to lend a few drone to the locust fight in the Horn of Africa?
In news that should surprise no one, agricultural drone manufacturer XAG has discovered that drones can be an answer to the virulent locust …
Wingcopter gets $22m funding to expand operations
Weiterstadt, GERMANY – Wingcopter just got loaded. The German delivery and humanitarian drone maker has secured a $22million investment…
WeRobotics to work with WHO and the Gates Foundation on medical drone deliveries
International humanitarian organisation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be funding WeRobotics, with a view to expand the World…
Hobby drone today; commercial enterprise tomorrow...
Do you have a fleet of one or more drones which you are so crazy about you cannot stop playing with them every chance you get? They are y…
Altitude Angel joins consortiums for UK, EU Urban Air Mobility
It has been a busy day for the folks at Altitude Angel. Not only has the UK-based Unmanned Traffic Management solutions provider joined a…
Drones to help map out small scale cashew nut farms in Benin
COTONOU (BENIN) – International non-profit developmental organisation, TechnoServe and technology platform Alteia have announced a partner…
Scared to enter the sewer? Roll in the caged drone!
Swiss drone manufacturer Flyability surely knows a thing or two about drones in hostile environments. From their inaugural GimBall – wh…
Niger's Kountche has big plans for West African drone community
It is not every day that you find a former president’s grandchild staying in the national headlines for reasons that have nothing to do wi…
FAA approves first fully autonomous commercial drone flights in the USA
MASSACHUSETTS – They might be mean to Chinese made drones, but the Federal Aviation Administration in the USA seem to be warming up really…
Ethiopian government signs MOU with private drone tech players
The year is 2013, and Ethiopia has just signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding with drone technology stakeholders in the country, whi…
On our way: Zipline's quest to be the medical drone logistics company of choice
Anybody remember Bata? Of course, we are kidding. Who would claim not to know Bata, the shoe making company that – growing up – ac…
A Cadillac passenger drone? It could happen
So, let’s take some stock on passenger drones. We have the VoloCopter and the EHang as the most prominent autonomous ait taxi models ac…
UPS and Verizon partner on connected drone deliveries
When it comes to 5G telecommunication network technology, there are only two extremes, and no middle ground. Either one belongs to the ex…
Humanitarian drone evangelist resurfaces at Auterion
He is far removed from the poster boys of boy band members and movie stars of yesteryears, but to the drone world, Romeo Durscher is the fac…
Sony flies into the drone space with the Airpeak
Usually, when you hear the word Sony, you rightly associate the word with sturdy electronic products like televisions, sound systems, video …
The 2021 drone horoscope
Kevin Sartori, co-founder of drone software company, Auterion has his, as well as world leading drone professionals’, outlook for the dron…
New EU drone regulations come into effect in 2021
With the USA adding regulations that would require remote identification on drones and relaxing the need for waivers on drone flights over p…
Mixed reactions to the FAA's new drone regulations
On December 28 last year, the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had a present for commercial drone operators in the cou…
Catching them young in Benin, Zimbabwe
Two African humanitarian drone franchises – Benin Flying Labs in West Africa and Zimbabwe Flying Labs in Southern Africa – have taken th…