Drones and their place in dangerous working environments
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation into an accident where a Squirrel helicopter struck a powerline pole and crushed …
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World trade body urges Africa to stay abreast with new technology
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned against the potential of emerging technologies creating a greater…
High time the African Union gave drone technology the real chance it deserves
We have a bone to chew with the African Union. Five years after the then AU Commission chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma appointed a…
PrecisionHawk partners with American Tower for drone-based tower inspection solutions
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA — It is understandable if engineers get antsy about having to climb the dangerously dizzy heights of cell tow…
Drones, 5G and smart cities
With drone technology making nothing of a necessarily miraculous rise in the past year, largely thanks to the need to feel the gap left by t…
Charis UAS dreams of a drone manufacturing plant in Africa
Kigali, RWANDA – When people hear about drones and Rwanda, the first thing that comes to their mind is… not Charis UAS. It is Zipline…
Scared to enter the sewer? Roll in the caged drone!
Swiss drone manufacturer Flyability surely knows a thing or two about drones in hostile environments. From their inaugural GimBall – wh…
FAA approves first fully autonomous commercial drone flights in the USA
MASSACHUSETTS – They might be mean to Chinese made drones, but the Federal Aviation Administration in the USA seem to be warming up really…
UK Drone Corridor trials set for summer, 2021
The rest of the world is set to witness just how a drone corridor will work in real life, after the United Kingdom Research and Innovation i…
Delta Drone SA, ParaZero complete merger
The announcement has been long in coming, but Delta Drone South Africa – a drone-based aerial mining solutions company – has finally com…
What should Africa do to win the Game of Drones?
The just ended Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference 2021 had experts covering various issues that included the legislative and regulatory…
Ghana's power utility call in the drones
Drones are good – and Ghana’s power utility is now aware of that. They are good for inspecting the power grid, for instance, and to c…