Insurance company to sponsor whizzkid's drone pilot's licence
Having launched with the main mission of inspiring the African commercial drone landscape to raise to the levels of the biggest markets in t…
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Wingcopter secures more investment
German drone technology company Wingcopter has revealed that it has secured more funding from a new investor, Copenhagen-based Nordic Second…
Drones join fight against gold panning in Ghana
Police and mining authorities in Ghana have had to turn to the aerial imagery and surveillance prowess of drone technology, as they battle d…
Cargo drone company receives more funding
Bulgaria-based cargo drone operator Dronamics’ quest for dominance in the mid-range cargo drone sector has just received another €30mill…
SwissDrones lands US contract
Long range drone maker and provider of advanced aerial intelligence solutions SwissDrones has announced its arrival on American shows, with …
New partnership to medical deliveries in parts of Africa
In some regions of Africa, where access to healthcare is often obstructed by poor infrastructure and vast distances, a new and innovative fo…
Brazil university develops drones for environmental monitoring
Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos Engineering School (EESC-USP) are developing drones equipped with gas sensors an…
Wingcopter on survey drone operations
German drone logistics provider Wingcoper’s co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Ansgar Kadura recently set down for an interview with Dr…
Wingcopter bags simulation partner
https://youtu.be/0G8cq7HhKkM German drone maker and services provider Wingcopter has engaged the services of simulation technology compa…
UTM solutions awarded US patent
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) technology provider Altitude Angel has announced that it has been awarded a United States patent for its d…
Matrice 400: DJI unleashes beast for enterprise applications
Drone maker DJI has released the DJI Matrice 400, a product that already looks and feels like a lower atmosphere beast for enterprise indust…
Watch: Fisherman rescued by drone
A video has emerged online of what looks like drone maker DJI’s Flycart 30 cargo drone rescuing a man trapped in a flooded river during a …
Drone company develops computer vision tech for its made-in-South Africa drone
Today, our heart eyes are blinking towards UAV Aerial Works, a South African drone security provider that has manufactured what it describes…
South African security company launches drone first responder programme
Having recently become of the select few organisations to acquire a licence for docked drone operations from the national regulator – whic…
JOUAV launches fourth drone dock system
Chinese industrial-grade VTOL drone manufacturer JOUAV is on drone dock number four now. The internationally recognised maker launched it…
Walmart to expand drone deliveries to hundreds more US locations
Bentonville, ARKANSAS, USA — If you wanted the biggest confirmation that delivery drones are here to stay then this is it: Walmart – th…
US start-up launches agric drone with large payload capacity
It is now year six since German aviation company Volocopter and agriculture behemoth John Deere promised us the VoloDrone, a crop-spraying u…
Modern regulation: What Africa need to drive the drone industry forward
An international drone legislation expert has sighted South Africa as an example of how drone laws can severely set back industry gains if t…
Zimbabwe drone start-up loses fighter in jet fighter crash
Last Friday on May 30, there was a fighter pilot crash in Zimbabwe, near the Midlands city of Gweru, which resulted in the tragic death of t…
The drone start-up looking to disrupt DJI dominance
If Silicon Valley-based drone start-up Sifly was planning to challenge DJI’s hegemony on the North American civilian drone market, they ha…
Drone docks making jobs safer in oil and gas operations
A picture of an industrial drone undertaking a task that would have put a human in danger only a few years ago is something we all want to s…
Nigerian drone start-up scores major security deal
Nigerian autonomous systems maker and services provider Terrahaptix has scored a major deal to provide drone-based security for a local priv…