Drones, disaster recovery and insurance
Using drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in disaster management has revolutionised emergency response efforts across the globe, a Sou…
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Canada: unauthorised drone disturbs rescue efforts
...while Drake has drone allegedly invade apartment. Canada had a really bad couple of days with the drones recently, with one errant UAV…
Ivorian start-up making inroads with drone-based agric solutions
From helping out small holder cocoa farmers map out their pieces of farmland, to introducing drone technology solutions to mango farmers, Iv…
Drones helping the fight against illegal mining in Rwanda
Having engaged a local drone company to help with environmental conservation efforts two years ago, the Rwandan government has expanded its …
Is bad regulation killing the drone industry in South Africa?
Well; this is interesting. For years, stakeholders in the South African commercial drone space have been trying all the courtship methods…
Former Hollywood exec pleads guilty to crashing drone into fire-fighting plane
Remember that time during the fires in the Palisades area in Los Angeles, when somebody flew a drone into a fire-fighting scooper plane that…
Zipline opens drone hub in Nigerian state
Drone logistics company Zipline and the Nigerian government in Bayelsa state have announced the opening of the medical drone distribution ce…
Medical deliveries by drone expanding in Madagascar
Health authorities in Madagascar have expanded medical deliveries by drone into the Atsimo-Andrefana and Atsimo-Atsinanana region, south of …
Wingcopter expands into survey and mapping
We have become used to Wingcopter drones traversing our skies carrying medical or other small cargo; they have been doing this since 2017 in…
South Africa: drone company gets licence for Remote Operations Centre
After almost a year of sustained trials in public safety operation, a Czech-based Artificial Intelligence company has had its drone remote o…
New drone for electricity grid inspections
Having introduced the cleaning drone to the world in 2023, American drone maker Aquiline Drones (AD) and long-term partner Drone Volt S…
China's expanding agricultural drone applications
Their problems beyond their borders notwithstanding, civilian drones In China are forging ahead in discovering more ways in which they can b…