Japanese local government to trial drone patrols around 'suicide forest'
Nestled to the northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji in Japan, the Aokigahara Forest claims 13.5 square miles of forest so thick wi…
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South African company enters partnership to increase DJI Dock's capacity for security operations
A South African Drone Technology supplier has partnered with an American autonomous drone software solutions provider to work on solutions t…
Using drones to track lions in Uganda
A drone recently caught a huge pride of lions swimming across a river in Uganda, in a feat that made its way into the Guiness Book of Record…
Terra Drone to provide UTM services in Indonesia
Japanese drone services company Terra Drone Corporation has been chosen for a programme to introduce unmanned traffic management (UTM) servi…
Korean drone company scores deal to inspect windfarms
South Korean drone services company Nearthlab has worked out a partnership agreement with Axess Group, a Norwegian renewable energy company,…
Over 8,000 drone flights for RocketDNA's xBot
Today we are celebrating with RocketDNA, the Australia Stock-exchange listed remote sensing company whose deployment of the DJI Dock is stea…
Medical drone trials coming to London
Following the recent successful pilots in Northumbria, the UK’s NHS Foundation Trust is now taking medical drone delivery trials to London…
US lawmakers want Chinese crop spraying drones banned
As the latest chapter on drone maker DJI’s ordeal in the USA unfolds, the Chinese manufacturer has responded to last Friday’s letter by …
About those drone swarms...
Most of us have probably associated drone swarms with light shows, where drone have flown in their hundreds in unison at various events wher…
Matternet acquires advanced Swiss drone logistics certification
California-based drone logistics company Matternet has been granted a Light UAS Operator Certificate (LUC) by the Swiss Federal Office of Ci…
South African start-up deploys drones to eradicate problematic shrub
The Western Cape province in South Africa has been in making headlines of late, with its novel ways of adopting drone technology in its agri…
Drones on South African mining sites
We think the best way to advocate for the integration of drone technology into industrial application is to actually show them at work. W…
Only 135g: DJI debuts new lightweight drone
Just as they continue to chase perfect with enterprise solutions for the enterprise applications, DJI have not forgotten the everyday drone …
Hydrogen cell-powered drone completes 100km flight in China
As the search for long lasting but sustainable fuel systems for unmanned aerial systems continue, a laboratory in China has debuted a hydrog…
China tries drone-based cloud seeding
The 2023/2024 rainy season in Southern Africa is now way past us. Or what was supposed to be the rainy season anyway; a prolonged dry spe…
The WFP and humanitarian drone operations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KTNiIEsOsU In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’…
Africa-based experts join advisory board of non-profit drone programme
Two Africa-based commercial drone technology evangelists have been selected to join the advisory board of drone services company, DroneDeplo…