Drone industry legend Romeo Durscher dies
Romeo Durscher – the colossal voice behind drone technology in first response operations – is no more. Diagnosed with cancer last yea…
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The role of drone and LiDAR tech in building disaster-resistant African cities
It has been a particularly wet start to 2025 for most parts of Southern Africa, with heavy rains a welcome sight for many a farmer in the re…
DJI's USA ban: Plot thickens
The running saga of Chinese drone makers' - led by the hugely popular DJI - fate in the North American commercial drone market is something …
The DJI Dock 3 is here
Yeah; the third iteration of DJI’s drone-in-a-box solution is here already. It does seem like DJI wants to make up for lost time since the…
Drones making offshore energy operations safer
We are sure many of you have come across the really tragic incident that happened in the Netherlands in 2013, where two young engineers died…
Setting drones against smuggling drones in prison airspaces
With the problem of drone technology being abused to smuggle contraband growing as it is in the UK, drone supplier and services provider Hel…
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…
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…
Working with drones as first responders
As much as civilian drones have been a really welcome inventions to the industrial world – speeding up and reducing costs for all those op…
Drone industry and market consolidation
Drone market research company Drone Industry Insights reckons that – after years of rapid growth and investment – it is only natural tha…
New drone can haul 150kg cargo
British logistics company Windracers has launched a new and bigger iteration of its ULTRA series of cargo drones, the ULTRA MK2 drone which,…
Flipping the vlogs away with the DJI flip
Drone maker DJI has launched a drone for social media video bloggers, which does some spinny and flippy stuff many would find endearing. …