Company confirms success in high-altitude drone-based wireless communication systems tests
SoftBank Corp, the Japanese company that makes high altitude drones has confirmed that its tests for stratospheric wireless communication sy…
December 2023
Indian drone company to work with local university
Keen to have the country take control of the drone value chain from design to the final sale, Indian drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace has…
Measuring the impact of Zipline's medical drone operations
The below research article is a plug for the contribution Zipline has made to healthcare delivery infrastructure of the countries in which i…
Zipline lands in the UK
A UK-based healthcare logistics company has roped in the logistics efficiency of Zipline’s drones to significantly expand its national Hea…
EHang scores partners in UAE
In their bid to break into the Middle East drone market and expand their brand into the region, Chinese passenger drone maker EHang Holdings…
Avy wins Dutch business award
This year’s awards season is a really good one for drone start-ups. After the recent exploits of Delta Scan in South Africa and Wingcop…
Matternet flies into Germany
Swiss drone logistics company Matternet will soon be flying its delivery drones in the heart of Berlin in Germany. Th small parcel drone …
Wingcopter is Germany's start-up of the year
Our congratulations today go to Wingcoper, the drone logistics start-up, for winning the 2023 Gründerszene Award 2023, the most prestigious…
State of the drone report: South Africa
Finally. In a way, the opening statement below from Drone Industry Insights is just a fact: there are very little headlines about the co…
Ethiopia extends medical drone trials
The consortium that was working on a delivery drone pilot project in Ethiopia has been so impressed by initial results that it will be doubl…
Medical drones: Eswatini enters chat
The Kingdom of Eswatini has entered the drone chat, and will be following the footsteps of other southern African nations like Malawi, Mozam…
Airbus seeks to set up high-altitude drone base in Kenya
When it comes to drone technology, East Africa is aiming for the stratosphere. They did it in Rwanda recently, when the courtship that wa…
JOUAV launches new multipurpose UA
Chinese industrial drone maker JOUAV has released a new multi-purpose industrial drone, the PH-20, which the company hopes will raise the le…
Drone tech and elephant conservation in Kenya
An American species preservation company has partnered with a wildlife conservation organisation to use drone technology to track elephants …
Bundesliga club to deliver fan merchandise with drones
Remember the LeiferMichel Project? That pilot project where German drone logistics company Wingcopter is working in collaboration with th…
Drone fishing back in the headlines
So the debate for and against the use of drone technology in South Africa rages on. After the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the E…
US city to test drone delivery
It is always a good thing when drone technology gets a chance to excel anywhere in the world, especially when it comes to helping disadvanta…