Drone Delivery Canada to test Kenyan waters
TORONTO – Just this April, they were making pilot test for their largest drone yet – the Condor – but today, Canadian drone logistics …
September 2020
Flying Labs Network turns five
Nine thousand dead. 22,000 injured. Thousands and thousands of homes reduced to rubble; and hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. …
Good times for Nigerian drone start-ups
There must be some real good vibes around the Nigerian drone technology landscape right now. On one hand you have AirSmat, a drone softwa…
Online database for medical drones launched
Seattle, WASHINGTON – Remember a while ago when drone manufacturer DJI launched its interactive map, where it wants to keep track with ins…
Ring's Always Home Cam: security drone in the house?
What if you left a drone to guard the inside of your home while you were away? Well; now you can – at least according to smart home sec…
UNDP's tribute to African innovation in fighting COVID-19
Two drone technology enterprises have made the grade among 48 other ventures by young Africans whose innovative works to combat the COVID-19…
London to launch the first dedicated commercial drone corridor?
Covering a vast 6,500 square metres, the African Drone and Data Academy’s Drone Testing Centre in Kasungu, Malawi, might be the largest dr…
Volocopter, DB Schenker partner on unmanned B2B logistics
BERLIN: We all know that drone developer and urban air mobility start-up Volocopter has an eighteen-wheeler, right? Well; we could not re…
Zimbabwe purchases border patrol drones
It seems drones are becoming a popular go-to border surveillance feature for countries in Southern Africa. Following a tender flighted la…
Nigerian students build agricultural drone
A group of four Nigerian students has come together to build a crop spraying drone that they think will be affordable to farmers across the …
Good drone... bad drone...
Santa may have a hard time deciding what to do with drones in Canada this year. On one hand, a drone saved three teenage lives in Peterbo…
Government role in growth of drone technology
Written by Joe Mariani, Research Manager, Centre for Government Insights at Deloitte; and Peter Liu, Managing Director, Deloitte Today’…
Ghanaian kid dreams of flying cars
ACCRA – A Ghanaian student hopes to one day solve his country’s transport problems by developing drones and nanotech-incorporated cars a…
WEF charts roadmap for Unmanned Traffic Management
That drones are here to stay is now fait accompli. Amazing technology entrepreneurs have turned a technology that was a preserve of the m…
Draganfly tech for Dubai Police drone operations
North American Drone services provider Draganfly has announced that it will be working with police in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to pionee…
Endeva seeks solutions to African drone policy issues
The Inclusive Innovation 2030 (ii2030) programme is calling for applications for solutions on how Africa can create and adopt policies that …
Zipline to deliver health products to Walmart clients in the US
Zipline are become a true drone logistics company, aren’t they? Their dream of delivery health supplies directly to people's homes are bec…
Avy official: This is why drones are safe
To anyone, safety is the most basic principle of flying. One will go into an Airbus A330 without a doubt in their mind that they will reach …
DJI updates apps to include internet kill switch
Desperate to settle the nerves of their clients who may have been spooked by allegations of data espionage, drone manufacturer DJI has decid…
Video: The process of drone training
Check out your resident African Drone Professional explaining the processes involved in drone training You can also follow him on Twitter
US doubles down on Chinese drone security claims
DJI made their move at AirWorks 2020. Now it was the turn of the American federal government to respond; and on on the eve of the ninete…
Amazon, Google, UPS: Who is winning the drone delivery race?
By Harrison Wolf, Lead, Aerospace and Drones, World Economic Forum While innovative start-ups like Zipline and Wingcopter are leaders in …
SA Drone Council: "Let's make history; lest we be history."
Having promised to hit the ground running at the launch of the Drone Council of South Africa in July, the council says it has already engage…
Indigenous tribes spearhead fight against Amazon deforestation
Awapy Uru Eu Wau Wau is risking his life to save the only place he truly calls home in Brazil Wau Wau (28) is one of some 250-odd members…
Drone companies circle on Ethiopia as regulations loom
With drone regulations finally imminent in Ethiopia, hopeful start-ups from far and wide are strategically positioning themselves to hit the…
CTA, Africa Goes Digital win big at WSIS Forum
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) took the big prize again at the World Summit on the Information Society Fo…
Weed: the new manna from heaven rains in Tel Aviv
Apparently there are people in Israel who think they have waited too long for their government to legalise the marijuana drug for every citi…
The eye in the sky
Drones have changed how we see the world. Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we experience the world - how we decide the even…
UNICEF seeking drone tech for public good to fund
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for open-source drone technology service providers to invest in, who are willing to use their drone se…
DJI's Schulman: Time for drone industry to come together
There is a Zimbabwean adage which goes, one man’s troubles will not stop another from eating. DJI has come to realise the truth of this…
Winners of Zambian drone hackathon announced
Chitula Lukonde, the Information Technology and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Specialist at Zambia Flying Labs walked away with the g…
Brazilian drone delivery company makes South American history
SÃO PAULO - Brazilian drone delivery company, Speedbird Aero has made history by becoming the first South American drone delivery organisat…
Mavic Air 2: Made for Africa
Your resident African drone professional, Tawanda Chihambakwe recently got his hands on the DJI Mavic Air 2 drone, which he says is a good f…
Drones for sustainable development in the Global South
The best way technology can witness an exponential growth for citizens of the Global South is by promoting local technological entrepreneurs…
Drone ban derails US fire-fighting plans
DJI might have lived long enough to experience the bad side of too much success, after their drones were banned from federal government use …
Unregistered drone operators to be arrested in Tanzania
You can now be jailed for flying an unregistered drone in Tanzania. The government, through the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) …