Bill Gates's first impression of flying a drone was meh. Then he went to India
Bill Gates – yeah; THAT Bill Gates – got his hands on the controls of a drone last year, then voluntarily put them down and away because…
April 2025
UTM provider Altitude Angel expands into the Netherlands
UK-based unmanned traffic management services provider Altitude Angel has partnered with Dutch drone enterprise solutions innovator AirHub t…
UK in trials to deploy drones for railway line inspection
Network Rail Limited – the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain is trialling the use of unmann…
The role of drones in promoting industrial safety
With the International Labour Organisation declaring April 28 every year as the Day for Safety and Health at Work, 2025 is the year new tech…
Scotland's struggle to keep smuggler drones away from prisons
You know you’re on to something when criminals do everything they can to turn your tech into something they can abuse. Because, what el…
Zimbabwean geospatial agency gets ROC
A Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Operating Certificate (ROC) is just as good as gold dust in Africa, which is why every single one that i…
New tool to help with drone regulatory compliance
We figure in an industry where understanding the rules and standard operating procedures is an absolute necessity, this tool can be a godsen…
Motorola invests in drone as first responder start-up
American first response drone services provider BRINC Drones is set to scale its operations after the start-up bagged capital investment fro…
Working with the drones in Mt Everest
In a world where we think commercial drone technology needs all the publicity it can get from mainstream media, we guess it is a good thing …
Chinese drone makers exploring markets following US tariff tensions
Chinese drone developers are pivoting to other foreign markets for long-term diversification, following the escalation of tariff tensions be…
Insurer proposes drones as alternative to heavy duty firearms
In light of the recent draft amendments to the Private Security Industry Regulations that now restrict the use of certain types of firearms …
African students win scholarship to attend top drone event in the USA
Two African are among the first recipients of the Commercial UAV Expo’s new scholarship initiative, aimed at promoting inclusion and diver…
Drone investment decreasing (at least for now): DroneII
While Chinese drone maker DJI continues to set the pace ahead of the rest on the commercial drone space, many ventures that started with a l…
Swoop Aero assets find new owners
When Eric Peck founded Swoop Aero in 2017, he had a dream: to transform how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless. For s…
Saving the white rhino in South Africa: The case of the Sabi Nature Reserve
When it comes to drone technology and helping in the eradication of poaching and other crimes against wildlife in national parks – especia…
Mozambique working on drone-based strategy for cyclone disasters
We all know how the damage that that the southern African country of Mozambique has suffered at the hands of tropical cyclones in recent yea…
State of the drone industry 2025
It has been a minute since we had the DroneIIBomb from the leading commercial drone market research company Drone Industry Insights. But …
Bobby has brought the Manna
We are reproducing the below interview of Bobby Healy, the founder of Irish delivery drone company Manna Drones. The interview first appeare…
EHang gets certified for commercial passenger drone services
Passenger drone maker has announced that its Guangdong subsidiary, Guangdong EHang General Aviation and and joint venture partner in Hefei, …
£20million for UK's drone innovation drive
It is a really good thing when top commercial drone markets lead by example in making the regulatory field more and more friendly to the gro…
Volatus Aerospace gets greenlight for nighttime BVLOS flights in Canada
Toronto, CANADA – Volatus Aerospace, which recently merged with Drone Delivery Canada, has received Transport Canada approval for long-dis…