Tekever resumes drone patrols along the Mediterranean
Portuguese drone technology company Tekever has resumed drone maritime reconnaissance and surveillance missions to look out for illegal immi…
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Drone solutions for US mining company
CALIFORNIA – A top USA mining company has has taken on board Kespry’s drone-based aerial intelligence platform for their inventory manag…
Charging your drone battery – in five minutes
They did it with cell phones and electronic vehicles. Now Israeli fast charging battery technology pioneer StoreDot has made a drone batt…
CUAASA's quest for a better drone industry in South Africa
The Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Association of Southern Africa (CUAASA) has lauded the recent improvement in their working relationship wit…
Fighting the drone-lash
Is banning drones on grounds of country of origin wise, or does it lead to false sense of security? The war for data control is chiefly b…
Flying Labs expands into Madagascar
Perhaps it is high time people got to know about Flying Labs It is the McDonald’s; the KFC; the Burger King of unmanned aerial systems;…
Saving Africa's endangered animals with drones
A UK humanitarian drone enterprise has teamed up with a start-up specialising in intelligent camera systems to save endangered animals in Af…
Traffic Management solution for energy companies
AiRXOS, a General Electric Affiliate that’s specialises in providing Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) solutions has announced an Unmanned…
New drone start-up born in South Africa
A new South African drone start-up is appealing for funding to see the completion of its inaugural drone projects and its introduction onto …
Wingcopter flies into Kenya
Wingcopter – the German last-mile delivery drone start-up – is fast becoming a household name in Africa. Having already covered a lot…
DJI denies security allegations against app
The world's biggest drone manufacturer, DJI, has defended the integrity of one of it Android apps, which has been found allegedly afoul of s…
The case for drone technology in mining
Fifty-one miners died in South Africa last year. In statistical terms, the figure has fallen to record lows, as safety standards have imp…
Armyworm war goes aerial in Zambia
A Zambian agriculture technology company has taken it upon itself to help eradicate the armyworm plague in the country. Operating out of…
Zambian drones to be upgraded with health monitoring software
A Zambian Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technology supplier has just announced plans to incorporate health monitoring software on their dron…
Tree-planting drones for Madagascar's lost forests
Madagascar used to be green. Really green. But no more. In the 2,000 short years that man landed on the East African island nation in…
New features for DroneDeploy software
Drone software company, DroneDeploy has released new software for its cloud applications. You can check them out below Automatically send…
EU certification requirements for commercial drones gazetted
COLOGNE – Just weeks after the European Union drone regulations went into effect in the EU region, the European Union Aviation Safety Agen…
Crash course for new drone owners
Just like cell phones, drones are fast becoming a wearable accessory for today’s world. Hence the need for users to learn to fly their …
Drone Council SA to hit ground running
Commercial drones have become a big – a very big – business in the world, and South Africa wants a slice of the pie. In 2019, reputab…
Locusts invade Yunnan, China
A massive drone spraying operation has been in progress in the South Western province of Yunnan, China, where an army of yellow bamboo locus…
South Africa: Municipalities turn to service-delivering drones
Following up on a fact-finding mission in which they seconded delegates to the Drone and Digital Aviation Conference in Johannesburg late la…
Premier Mapping premiers mine blast livestreaming
A South African aerial mapping company has developed a drone-based surveillance system to provide mining, engineering and geospatial organis…
Corteva's agricultural drone fleet largest in the world
...And they are making them smarter With a fleet of over 400 drones to its name, Corteva Agriscience - the Agriculture Division of DowDuP…
Local start-ups and experts need recognition - and help
For our second Drone of Reason ever, we will let the following opinion by WeRobotics' Patrick Meier speak. There are an infinite number of s…
Agricultural drones: Togo joins the party
A Togolese technology innovation hub is trying to lure the country’s youth to fall in love with agriculture again, by introducing drones i…
AcquahMeyer: From spraying crops to spraying market places
WASHINGTON - Towards the end of 2017 in Accra, Ghanaian pilot Eric Acquah founded AcquahMeyer Drone Tech, a crop spraying subsidiary of Acqu…
Parrot partners with WISeKey
PARIS - French drone maker Parrot has announced a partnership with cybersecurity provider WISeKey to enhance security of the company's range…
Matternet expands health delivery drone services in the USA
There is no question about how terribly COVID-19 has upended lived lives all over the world since the beginning of the year. Nearly 14millio…
New drone body launched in South Africa
We know there are other associations for drone stakeholders in South Africa. But this one seems to have the backing of government structures…
Is that a bird? AVES Drone hiding in plain sight
In design alone, at least the manufacturer is not kidding Manufactured by Dutch stealth drone maker, The Drone Bird Company, the AVES dro…
Cote d'Ivoire: Incorporating drones into the UTZ Certification Process
In the Ivory Coast, the UTZ Certified programme has called upon drone technology to help in expediting the certification for farmers who wis…
The Drone for filmmakers is here
Flying Pictures has just announced the Ultra drone, which they claim is the most powerful drone in the world, designed and built purely fo…
Saving the forests with Eden and DroneDeploy
CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles-based tree planting organisation, Eden Reforestation Projects, last week celebrated their fifteenth anniversary b…
Drone Hackathon: Call for young Zambian entrepreneurs
Young drone entrepreneurs and hopefuls in Zambia; here is a lifetime chance to turn your ideas into business - and you have until August 6 t…
Inspecting the power grid in hotter temperatures
It is always summer time somewhere in the world; and while the summer season is always welcome for all the joys and opportunities it present…
Irrigation drones for Zimbabwe's Lowveld
Irrigation drones might just be the answer to the almost perennially erratic rainfall patterns experienced by sugarcane farmers in Zimbabwe'…
DJI keeps tabs with #DronesForGood
With one Ghislaine in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, it would be fair to assume that the world has forgotten about Ghislane Ihimba…
Zipline signs up with Intermap
Intermap Technologies, an American geospatial information solutions company, has announced that it has signed up with medical drone maker Zi…
The drone age and Urban Air Mobility
Drones, personal flying vehicles and air taxis may be part of our everyday life in the very near future. Drones and air taxis will crea…
Government role in adopting drone technology into health delivery
The headlines are everywhere—there is a game changer in the fight against COVID-19. Drones are on their way to deliver samples and airdrop…
Crop ripening boost for South Africa's sugarcane farmers
A South African sugarcane farm, working with Chinese agricultural drone technology maker XAG, has completed a successful test of the XAG dro…
Do Benin farmers want to use paid drone services?
Small holder farmers in Benin are warming up to drone technology and are willing to pay for drone services as a way to make their farm opera…
Drone to the rescue for cardiac arrest patients in remote areas
There is hope for cardiac arrest victims in remote areas worldwide after Drone Delivery Canada, a Canadian drone technology firm, successful…
How not to use drones in COVID-19 response
Drones are increasingly being used in a wide range of humanitarian contexts. This does not always mean they’re useful, however. They h…
Drones light up Seoul as fight against COVID-19 persists
South Korea might be winning the war against COVID-19 pandemic, having reduced the number of active cases in thee country to below 1,000, bu…
Volocopter + John Deere = VoloDrone
You know you are onto something when John Deere himself decides to invest in an agricultural drone. The 200-year old agriculture machiner…
Inspire Africa: Preparing kids for the future workplace
A South African organisation has taken up the challenge to prepare African children for tomorrow’s workplace by embarking on a drone codin…
DJI's Mavic Air 2 is out
DJI's new Mavic Air 2 folding-style drone is a huge improvement over the previous model—so much so that for most people, this is the perfe…
Drones being cool in COVID-19 times
Since the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic early this year, drones have been one of the technologies that have worked non-stop to make lif…
Drones despatched as COVID-19 cases soar in Melbourne, Australia
Surveillance drones and more than 1,000 police will be deployed to locked-down suburbs in Melbourne, Australia as the southern state of Vict…
Drone Racing League to conclude this Sunday
The Drone Racing League will crown a champion in its popular 2020 FanDuel DRL SIM Racing Cup at 20:00hours GMT this Sunday. The races wi…
SA's drone start-up mentorship programme bears fruit
South African drone technology start-up, Mzansi Aero Technologies’ drone mentorship has borne its first fruits. Well; first thirteen fr…
Drones to patrol Australian beaches
Dozens of Sydney's most popular beaches will be patrolled from the air with drones working to scare off sharks in a…
Mavic Pro lends wings to first ever detailed study of Moroccan highlands
Spanish-based archaeological research organisation, the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) recently found a way to map and…
Move to harmonise African drone laws
Barely a year after it came into existence, the African Drone Forum is wasting no time making its mark on the continent’s drone landsc…