Opportunities for cargo drones in middle-distance logistics
It has been a while since the world first learned about Volocopter’s Volodrone; a mid-range cargo and agricultural drone was supposed to t…
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Drones as first responders? They work
Remember the story we covered last year about Canadian drone company, Drone Delivery Canada announcing that it had made successful trials to…
Drone technology and the construction industry
For some, the construction industry is a notoriously slow adopter of technology. In recent time, the most exciting technological development…
Drone technology in agriculture, construction and environmental conservation
Gleaned from Commercial UAV News, this article was written by AgEagle CEO, Brandon Torres Declet, who looks at the prospects of drone techno…
Qualcomm avails flight platform to make your drone as smart as the Ingenuity Mars helicopter
This one goes out to all the smart people in Africa who are leading the race to make the first perfect drone made in Africa. We know we alre…
The case for mining drones
Drones in mining operations are used for a varied range of applications: from exploration, surveying and mapping to maintaining safety and e…
European delivery drone sector stumbles
as Amazon, DHL, close operations Callum Holland – a fifteen-year veteran of unmanned aviation technology and head of Flight Operations …
Security drones and job security
Security drones have been good to humans. Well… most of them anyway. They have saved lives. They have saved people from dangerous si…
Swoop Aero releases the Kite
The question of whether it is a plane or a bird has been answered. It is a kite. No; really. We are serious. Or rather, Swoop Aero …
De-mining drones gaining more traction
Twice now, we have written about how drone technology has been deployed to clean up in two African countries looking to erase the tragic rem…
The journey so far - cargo drones in Africa
...according to Denise Soesilo One of the founders of Outsight International – a consulting and project management company for the huma…
The future of delivery drones
Spoiler alert... it is bright. The World Economic Forum has clearly warmed up to the arrival of drone technology as an economic force on …