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…
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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 …
Cultivating community trust in humanitarian drones
Humanitarian drones have been the most common way of introducing drone technology in most communities in the Global South. The drones have b…
Spotlight on DeltaScan
While industry players are having a hard time haggling with aviation authorities safely integrate drone operations into urban skylines, the …
Making technology work in the security industry
Security of persons. Security of property It was the hottest topic at the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference this year. And of co…
Drone companies and the quest for medical delivery in Africa
It was just the thing you would have loved to see on a lukewarm Johannesburg mid-morning whose tepid sunshine you were likely never going to…