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Two Australian teenagers landed themselves in hot soup when they were filmed by a police drone burning skid marks on the road in Hobart, Southern Tasmania last weekend. The drone…

With the integration of drone technology into the security industry growing rapidly in South Africa, an insurance company has reiterated the importance of acquiring insurance cover for these operations, so…

Today we are congratulating drone services provider Namibia Flying Labs, which has just announced that it is now an Approved Training Organisation for drone pilot hopefuls in the southern African…

Global drone logistics company Zipline is expanding its reach in Kenya, following its recent partnership with Kericho County in the Rift Valley region, to enhance access to medical supplies for…

Having claimed Africa’s first ever gold medal in the 200-metre sprint at the Olympic Games, Botswana’s loud celebrations for its hugely talented athletic son, Letsile Tebogo’s record feat at the…

With the commercial drone industry growing by leaps and bounds the world over; drone service providers need tangible information about how to scale up their operations, gain more clients and…

Commercial drone industry research company Drone Industry Insights conducted seventh annual worldwide survey on the state of the commercial drone space, and the results are out. Please continue reading to…

South Africa’s science research hub, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has partnered with a local drone manufacturing start-up to use drone technology in detecting all kinds of…

Nestled to the northwest of the majestic Mount Fuji in Japan, the Aokigahara Forest claims 13.5 square miles of forest so thick with foliage that it’s known as the sea of trees….

A South African Drone Technology supplier has partnered with an American autonomous drone software solutions provider to work on solutions that will offer more capacity for drone-in-box applications in Africa’s…

A drone recently caught a huge pride of lions swimming across a river in Uganda, in a feat that made its way into the Guiness Book of Records. The unique…

Japanese drone services company Terra Drone Corporation has been chosen for a programme to introduce unmanned traffic management (UTM) services into Indonesia. According to a statement from the drone company,…

South Korean drone services company Nearthlab has worked out a partnership agreement with Axess Group, a Norwegian renewable energy company, for drone-based inspection services on the latter’s windfarm sites. Nearthlab…

Today we are celebrating with RocketDNA, the Australia Stock-exchange listed remote sensing company whose deployment of the DJI Dock is steadily creeping towards 10,000 flights – with 8,000 having been…

Following the recent successful pilots in Northumbria, the UK’s NHS Foundation Trust is now taking medical drone delivery trials to London. Reports from the UK say that the latest trial…

As the latest chapter on drone maker DJI’s ordeal in the USA unfolds, the Chinese manufacturer has responded to last Friday’s letter by a dozen Republican US lawmakers, urging the…

Most of us have probably associated drone swarms with light shows, where drone have flown in their hundreds in unison at various events where they have provided entertainment. But while…

California-based drone logistics company Matternet has been granted a Light UAS Operator Certificate (LUC) by the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA). Announced yesterday, this is the first LUC…

The Western Cape province in South Africa has been in making headlines of late, with its novel ways of adopting drone technology in its agricultural industry. Just this past week,…

We think the best way to advocate for the integration of drone technology into industrial application is to actually show them at work. Which is why we are grateful for…

Just as they continue to chase perfect with enterprise solutions for the enterprise applications, DJI have not forgotten the everyday drone lover, as they have introduced a new lightweight drone,…

As the search for long lasting but sustainable fuel systems for unmanned aerial systems continue, a laboratory in China has debuted a hydrogen-powered drone that can fly for 100 kilometres…

The 2023/2024 rainy season in Southern Africa is now way past us. Or what was supposed to be the rainy season anyway; a prolonged dry spell in the region in…

In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’s flagship drone event where stakeholders in the country’s commercial drone space meet annually compare notes on…

Two Africa-based commercial drone technology evangelists have been selected to join the advisory board of drone services company, DroneDeploy’s benefit programme for charities and non-profit organisations. We have covered DroneDeploy’s…

A South African agricultural drone services provider has partnered with a pest management company to deploy drone technology into the fights against pests in agriculture. Agricultural drone start-up Aerobotics says…

Perhaps this is a good time to remind holiday makers and visitors to South Africa’s tourist resorts that authorities in these places frown upon anybody flying a drone without express…

In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’s flagship drone event where stakeholders in the country’s commercial drone space meet annually compare notes on…

UK healthcare logistics company Apian’s latest trials into the feasibility of deploying drone technology for the delivery of blood samples between hospitals seem to be bearing positive fruits. In their…

In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’s flagship drone event where stakeholders in the country’s commercial drone space meet annually compare notes on…

It is here we go again for online retail conglomerate Amazon’s attempts at establishing a sustainable drone logistics network in the United Kingdom. The online retailer is one of six…

A Belgian project to test the feasibility and scalability of medical drone delivery operations has successfully completed its first flight in Kortrijk, a city of nearly 80,000 inhabitants in the…

In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’s flagship drone event where stakeholders in the country’s commercial drone space meet annually compare notes on…

Kenya Flying Labs – WeRobotics’ Kenyan custodian of the Flying Labs franchise – has joined hands with a German agency to bring drones as part of precision agriculture technology training…

Harare, ZIMBABWE – Oftentimes on this blog, we have tried to insist that – as game-changing as they are to the industries they apply to – drones; event the best…

Kathmandu, NEPAL – From just feasibility tests four months ago; today we are here: drones will be officially taking over the cleaning of garbage left by hikers in Mt Everest;…

Step by little step, commercial drone applications ate taking root in the southern African state of Zimbabwe. At least so much that the aviation regulator and the insurance industry are…

In June this year, we attended the Drone & Unmanned Aviation Conference, South Africa’s flagship drone event where stakeholders in the country’s commercial drone space meet annually compare notes on…

There is a very good reason why experts in the drone industry have always strived to ram home the fact that aerial data collection using drone technology can only be…

Security drone operations in Zimbabwe have recorded their first publicly proclaimed success, after four people were arrested for vandalising property belonging the National Railways of Zimbabwe; the country’s rail transport…

Their legal and business woes in the USA notwithstanding, it seems the year 2023 was another progressive one – at least on the agriculture front – for drone manufacturer DJI,…

The below article from the smart people at telecommunications giant Ericsson outlines the important role 5G and its fast connectivity can provide towards the more effective application of autonomous things;…

It is the aftermath of a bruising battle for the legitimacy of using drone technology in angling and recreational fishing in South Africa and in this battle, the government won,…

The final verdict is now in; and it is not good news for drone fishing enthusiasts in South Africa: using drones for recreational fishing is now really banned in the…

We have held this suspicion for some time, but latest developments in New York have now erased all doubt: birds are jealousy of drones. Yes, they are and don’t you…

Stranger things are no longer strange anymore in this world, it seems. We have lived through times when a drone was used to search for love; so perhaps it was…

Drone services company RocketDNA is going places, leveraging the data capturing capabilities of its xBot ecosystem, which is centred around the automated capabilities of the drone-in-a-box systems. We have written…

There has been an interesting development in the moves by the United States congress to ban Chinese drone maker DJI from offering its drones and related commercial services in the…

In a ground-breaking first for first response drone operations in policing in the United Kingdom, drones have been deployed to monitor festivities at the Isle of Wight music festival, held…

The fallout from DJI and other Chinese drones’ imminent ban from the US commercial drone market rages on, with first responders in the country decrying the pandemonium that is likely…

We know we have previously covered how drone technology is applied to warehouse management, with Nokia’s drones seemingly have a hold on that segment of the market. Well; apparently Flyability…

Kudos to Drone Industry Insights for choosing to discuss energy efficiency and sustainable, climate-friendly energy resources in today’s article. As more and more countries open up the lower atmosphere for…

Having made tentative forays into the Ireland healthcare logistics space last year, it seems drone company Wing and its UK partner Apian have been encouraged by their initial prospects, and…

We think they do have to try, if only it may be for record purposes; but we do not think that the people at the forefront of fighting DJI’s ban…

CLERMONT, Florida, USA – A Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly shot a Walmart delivery drone in Lake County, rendering it inoperable, deputies said. Dennis Winn, 72, faces…

Remember in December when we reported that the government of Eswatini, in collaboration with the Luke Commission, had joined the medical delivery drone bandwagon and was feeling its way around…

Chinese drone maker JOUAV has announced the launch of a revamped version of the PH-20 multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, a an enterprise drone system designed to enhance the efficiency and…

From China comes news that Chinese drone maker DJI unsurprisingly not amused by the US federal government’s move to ban the company’s drones from operating on US soil. Citing an…

As the fallout ignited by the looming ban on DJI drones from operating in the US continues, a public safety non-profit organisation has sought to appraise hundreds of its members…

Well; the results are in from the Unites States House of Representative vote on the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), a bill which authorises funding for the Department of Defence…

Today’s article from drone research professionals at Drone Industry Insights looks at drone technology in the agricultural industry. The original was published here. Following the in-depth look at drones in Energy and drones…

As Chinese drone manufacturer DJI awaits the fate of its life in the United States, as a bill to ban the drones will be put to a full vote in…

We think it is understandable that entrepreneurs in the drone services industry would love it if all aviation laws were aligned in a way that favours drone users at all…

We should have known when pictures first leaked in China of a drone hauling solar panels up a mountain that DJI did not have the tidier side of delivery by…

The passing into law of a bill potentially banning Chinese addictive social media app TikTok by the US Congress is giving fellow Chinese addictive drone manufacturer, DJI, sleepless nights. In…

Every time we see a press release pop up with a hopeful update about Amazon’s Prime Air drone project, it is really difficult to report objectively without your mind jumping…

For cargo drone company, Drone Delivery Canada – which recently merged operations with Volatus Aerospace – the future of cargo delivery is not doing away with conventional means of transport…

Chinse drone manufacturer, JoUAV has launched the second generation of its drone nest solution, and below is more information about the new product’s features; which has been supplied by the…

South African information and communication technology distributer Recton, which is a DJI reseller in the country, is keen to make its mark in the local drone space, having spent close…

When it comes to innovation in the manufacturing side of the commercial drone industry, China is the capital, the hub, the heartbeat, the nerve centre, the Mecca of all things…

American drone technology and services distribution company, Volatus Aerospace thinks the commercial drone industry is now ripe for the next stage of growth, which the company reckons can only be…

The analysts and commercial drone research company Drone Industry Insights have released an accounting of the most popular industrial applications for drone technology in 2024. We have reproduced the report…

WASHINGTON (Originally published by Reuters) – A group of House Representatives from the Republican Party in the USA on Wednesday proposed legislation that would hike tariffs on Chinese-made commercial and…

When you think of drone-based technologies in agriculture, the first thought that may come to mind may be DJI and its Agras repertoire of sprayer drones, and XAG and its…

It has been six years now since aircraft systems manufacturer Volocopter teased the VoloDrone as its 200kg-capacity solution for large scale autonomous crop spraying at an agricultural exhibition show in…

Many of us would be aware of the humanitarian situation developing in east Africa, where flooding due to heavy rains has resulted in the death of at least 420 people…

Passenger and cargo drone making company EHang feels it has moved the world closer to the movement of people by drones, after it completed the first pilot tests for passenger…

Today we are celebrating with Integrated Aerial Precision (IAP), a Nigerian drone-based precision agriculture start-up that has received a helping of €45,000 investment injection. This is a massive shot in…

Today we are talking tethered drones; the kind of drone technology that has not gained the popularity it deserves yet; most because DJI has not made one yet. Tethered drones…

We guess when one is backed by a tech behemoth the size of Google, success comes with the territory. Or it does not: because Amazon’s Prime Air project – with…

If you are a security or public safety professional looking for information on the best practices to make drone technology work better in your industry, then this could be important…

The world-renowned majestic waterfalls at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe were bathed in an illuminating glow last week, as hundreds of little drones made light patterns that celebrated the best of…

Commercial drone manufacturing giant DJI has finally released its DJI Agras T50 and T25 model of agricultural drones for the worldwide market, with the T50 becoming the company’s new flagship…

It might have been unremarkable in its simplicity but when Zip 856 made a landing to deliver two bags of IV fluid from Zipline’s distribution centre in Ghana’s Western North…

Today, the research professionals at Drone Industry Insights have chosen to tackle the elephant in the room: Drone technology regulation and legislation. We know there are times when drone laws…

Coming more often than we’d love to, there are times in our lives when we are outdoors and we need power. Perhaps we can be working on a project and…

Drone research company Drone Industry Insights’ preliminary analysis into various world drone markets this time makes a stopover in the Nordic countries. Let’s see where the opportunities lie for drone…

World leading commercial and civilian drone maker DJI has released the second version of its Avata model of first-person view (FPV) drones; and, judging by its online reception, it seems…

Last year in September Zimbabwean drone services start-up Precision Aerial stole the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show – the country’s biggest exhibition fair for local and international companies. Well; the did not…

German delivery drone maker Wingcopter just got lift off in Japan. The company has just announced that it has received approval for the opening of the type certification process of…

South African drone services company UAV Aerial Works has expanded its portfolio to include remote pilot licence training. Which makes sense; because having in been the drone game for nearly…

There is a certain feeling of de javu you get when you read that an average Joe Bloggs took their drone out and abused it to break the law. We…

Artificial intelligence. We guess are valid arguments to be made on both sides with regards to this latest disruptive technology, which is promising to make previously cumbersome or dangerous tasks…

Botswana has just taken another step further down the road towards drone self-reliance, with the opening of a drone assembly and testing centre in Palapye, about 272km northeast of the…

Fresh from acquiring their remote licence to operate box-based automated drones in Australia, a multi-national data collection company has found a partner in the country to finally set their xBot…

Chinese drone maker DJI is ramping up its drone box game with the release of the DJI Dock 2, the company’s second iteration of its drone-in-a-box solution. And unlike the…

Step by steady step, delivery drone technology is spreading across the USA, as it looks like delivery drone maker Wing and online food ordering and delivery platform DoorDash are becoming…

In news that should be cool for insurance services, municipalities and smart mobility solutions providers everywhere, Spanish smart mobility services company Serveo and Telefónica Tech have announced the successful completion…

While we are here leading the cheers for all the big established companies, the start-ups and the entrepreneurs working hard every day to propel forward the commercial drone industry, we…

There will be another player on the Kenyan delivery drone space after a Korean drone making company received approval for a pilot project from the government. Narma, a spin-off company…

The last time drone technology made its face on Ghana’s electoral landscape, it was the proverbial knight in shining armour for the electorate in the country’s eastern region. That was…

Today, our favourite researchers at Drone Industry Insights are in India, the land that named a drone after one of the most famous faces in world cricket. Being China’s neighbour,…

After years of promises, false take-offs, failed trials and a few frustrations, it seems the integration of drone technology in African police organisations is beginning to take shape for real….

With globally renowned drone manufacturing and drone services companies that include DJI, Autel, Yuneec, Terra Drone and many others, it is safe to say Asia is the home of the…

Yesterday, we took a peek back with drone logistics company Zipline, to check the year they have had since the launched medical drone logistics in partnership with the Bayelsa regional…

We love a peek back. Especially if it involves drastic improvement to a state of community health and well-being that was not there before. This past month, American drone logistics…

Police drones helped catch three men who were trespassing on private farmland in rural Cleveland in the UK last week. The drones were part of a night operation conducted various…

DUBLIN – Irish delivery drone company Manna Drone Delivery will be expanding its operations into Blanchardstown, following the partnership deal signed with a local fast-food chain. Manna has announced that…

After years of exponential financial injections, investment in drone technology companies across the world seems to be slowing down, according to the below report from Drone Industry Insights. It could…

Okay; we do admit that was a bit click-baity. We know there is a already a drone racing league going on somewhere in the world (although it does take place…

With drone technology steadily making its way into warehousing, it seems Nokia has found some competition. Austrian mobile data capture and data insights company Anyline has released its own drone…

Indoor and confined space drone maker Flyability’s annual user conference will have an African flavour this year, with Darryl Epstein, managing director drone-based civil engineering start-up Delta Scan, set to…

Prospects for drone integration in South Africa’s public service operations took a turn for the better in this week, with the introduction of operations in the provinces of Gauteng and…

Commercial drone industry research company Drone Industry Insights’ report on the state of the drone market in agriculture is out; and we are going to dive straight into it. Trigger…

Swiss company Flyability – the makers of commercial drones for data collection in confined spaces – have nuggets to share with regards the benefits of drone technology when applied to…

We are celebrating with global drone market platform Globhe today, whose founder Helena Samsioe won the Women in Business Network Innovator of the year Award in Sweden last night. Helena…

Over 100 firefighters, 28 fire engines, fourteen helicopters, two planes, as well as rescue workers were still battling strong winds yesterday to put out the fire that broke out in…

We know we have covered this before, but it is still a matter of national pride that South African inspection engineering start-up Dela Scan has made it to the case…

In the below case study, a company took Flayability’s Elios 3 drone under the city of Brussels in Belgium, in a massive project to help the city become smarter. An…

We translated this breaking story from Swahili, and the software returned with text that identified a drone as a bee plane. Which gave us a smile of course Because, for…

After it broke new ground by being the first government organisation to obtain a Remote Operator’s Certificate (ROC) of any kind for its search and rescue operation in the Table…

Leading remote sensing drone maker Wingtra has just announced the launch of a new LiDAR solution to go with its series of drone models. The Swiss company claims its new…

As drone manufacturers, service providers, aviation authorities and related stakeholders continue with their groping efforts in their attempts to finger the pulse on the best ways to integrate drone technology…

Continuing with its coverage of regional and national drone markets across the world, Drone Industry Insights has decided to open with new year with a glimpse (and they do insist…

Africa’s favourite drone chick is going to fly the African flag in Europe. And we are all here for it. Kim James, the director of South African drone services company…

Looks like we might be celebrating the constant milestones by Wingcopter and partner’s LeiferMichel project for some time yet. Just last week, the project partners announced that they had received…

The guys at research company drone Industry Insights are back for the new year; and their first item on the agenda is to… Look back at the old year. And…

Yes. You read that right. Indian drone maker Garuda Aerospace has made its name producing drone for the enterprise market in the country. But for cricket legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni,…

The following article is a reproduction of an article from a small drone manufacturing company out of China. The company is called DJI and you may have heard of it….

The UK has its first drone-friendly harbour. Delivery drones have been flying over the Falmouth Harbour in the past week, as part of the ship-to-shore flight trials carried out by…

We like the fact that – despite the company’s heavy focus on serving industry skewed towards drone applications in remote sensing – RocketDNA actually has an eye out for the…

You feel this is a story that will never go away. Which we sadly admit is a tacit acknowledgement of our bleak outlook on the possibility of a future where…

World leading commercial drone manufacturing company DJI has released new software for survey professionals, to go with the drones that have made to collect data in the survey and mapping…

Having made significant progress into the usefulness of drone technology in the agricultural industry, it seems the next target for India is medical delivery. And on that front, the All…

We have reported incidents before of drone technology being used to save the lives of heart attack patients via the timely delivery of defibrillators to the scene; rather than sending…

For a country that is so dominant in drone technology – to the point that DJI alone accounts for almost three quarters of the drone market – it is surprising…

Just leaving this plug out here for a bunch of our friends in the drone industry that contributed to the latest edition of the Drone Professional anthology. The book is…

The LeiferMichel project in the Michelstadt districts in Germany continues to grow from strength to strength in the new year, with a further extension into the new year, and non-prescription…

Our wise advice? Please make sure that your drone does not get entangled in a knotty situation that will leave it with a dead rotor. Because chances are, you will…

The below case study was taken from Flyability, whose drone, the Elios 3, was used to survey and map out the old workings on a mine in New York USA….

When news broke that DJI were adding a delivery series to their inventory of unmanned aircraft systems, we went high and wide to bring you the story – even when…

Canadian cargo drone maker Drone Delivery Canada’s new year wish has come true, after it was granted the greenlight to operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights on a…

Our friends at JOUAV are back with nuggets on the effectiveness of drone technology in border management operations. The insights are well worth your time. The evolution of border patrol…

The below article – a brilliant look into the application of LiDAR and photogrammetry in remote sensing – was supplied by JOUAV, a drone manufacturing company based in China. We…

With companies and smart people working hard to ensure that unmanned aircraft systems share the lower atmosphere safely with other aircraft, a Japanese company has just announced cyber security systems…

Lewisville, TEXAS – If you forget eggs at the store or just need a quick treat from the cookie aisle, you may be able to get it dropped off at…

Happy new year, everyone. Fancy a trip around a tourist area in an unmanned aerial vehicle? Well; 2024 could be your lucky year: Chinese drone maker EHang – fresh from…

SoftBank Corp, the Japanese company that makes high altitude drones has confirmed that its tests for stratospheric wireless communication systems have been successful. This should be further good news for…

Keen to have the country take control of the drone value chain from design to the final sale, Indian drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with…

The below research article is a plug for the contribution Zipline has made to healthcare delivery infrastructure of the countries in which it has established operations. These countries include Rwanda,…

A UK-based healthcare logistics company has roped in the logistics efficiency of Zipline’s drones to significantly expand its national Health Service (NHS) program to deliver medical supplies to hospitals, GPs…

In their bid to break into the Middle East drone market and expand their brand into the region, Chinese passenger drone maker EHang Holdings has joined the Smart and Autonomous…

This year’s awards season is a really good one for drone start-ups. After the recent exploits of Delta Scan in South Africa and Wingcopter in Germany, Dutch drone logistics start-up…

Swiss drone logistics company Matternet will soon be flying its delivery drones in the heart of Berlin in Germany. Th small parcel drone developer has announced that it has been…

Our congratulations today go to Wingcoper, the drone logistics start-up, for winning the 2023 Gründerszene Award 2023, the most prestigious award for German startups. Wingcopter develops delivery drones focussed on…

Finally. In a way, the opening statement below from Drone Industry Insights is just a fact: there are very little headlines about the commercial African drone space, if at all….

The consortium that was working on a delivery drone pilot project in Ethiopia has been so impressed by initial results that it will be doubling up flights in the coming…

The Kingdom of Eswatini has entered the drone chat, and will be following the footsteps of other southern African nations like Malawi, Mozambique and Botswana that have established successful drone-based…

When it comes to drone technology, East Africa is aiming for the stratosphere. They did it in Rwanda recently, when the courtship that was announced in 2020 took a huge…

Chinese industrial drone maker JOUAV has released a new multi-purpose industrial drone, the PH-20, which the company hopes will raise the level in industrial applications. According to the manufacturer, the…

An American species preservation company has partnered with a wildlife conservation organisation to use drone technology to track elephants in Kenya. Texas-based Colossal Biosciences, which describes itself as a de-extinction…

Remember the LeiferMichel Project? That pilot project where German drone logistics company Wingcopter is working in collaboration with the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) to deliver groceries around…

So the debate for and against the use of drone technology in South Africa rages on. After the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) reminded stakeholders that there…

It is always a good thing when drone technology gets a chance to excel anywhere in the world, especially when it comes to helping disadvantaged communities. And so it is…

… as FAA awards company national waiver for one pilot to simultaneously operate multiple drones Drone-in-a-box solutions provider Percepto has just seen its latest licence in the US get sexier,…

The article below from the good people at Drone Industry Insights is their polite way of reminding the world commercial drone manufacturers exist in the world – outside of the…

Congratulations are in order for civil engineering technology start-up Delta Scan, which won the African leg of the Start-Up World Cup Pitch Competition at Africa Tech Festival that played out…

We have read how Zipline, the leading drone logistics company in the world, has boasted about its well over one million flights worldwide. By comparison, Wing – another drone logistics…

It is one thing watching a video of the DJI Dock at work, or reading what it can do. But physically laying your eyes on one and watching up close…

…as cargo drone company completes pilot drone logistics project in Michigan Canadian cargo drone company Drone Delivery Canada is looking to expand its operations into neighbouring USA. The company has…

Cargo drone company Dronamics has started laying the groundwork for a joint venture with the UAE’s Strategic Development Fund (SDF), which could see the construction of serial production plant for…

We know drone technology has changed the game when it comes to every other industrial application. We know because our friends at research company Drone Industry Insights have released countless…

Ondas Holdings, the parent company of drone nest service providers, Airobotics and American robotics has announced the signing of a memorandum of Understanding with a Moroccan company, which could see…

Angolan petroleum company Sonangol and its French counterpart TotalEnergies will be soon be deploying drones around Angolan oil fields to help keep tabs with the clean energy initiative that the…

BRINC, the American manufacturer of drone technology for public safety, law enforcement and first response operations has announced the release of the LEMUR 2, a drone which the company touts…

Drone Industry Insights’ preliminary national and regional analysis of the commercial drone industry takes us to Spain today, and the initial results look promising. Spain’s drone market is blossoming. The…

Chinese urban air mobility (UAM) technology company EHang Holdings has wasted no time in honouring the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with a Catalunya-based Spanish international airport and announced the…

It was a great day for women in the African drone space last week, as many of them got just rewards for their sterling work at the seventh Annual Women…

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a solution to help industry professionals, especially those in agriculture, with the best possible conditions to deploy drones onto crop fields…

RocketDNA must have breakthrough history written in their DNA After recently breaking new ground as the first drone services company to obtain the licence to use the DJI Dock system…

Hello everyone! It has been a minute, and we missed you all while we were away. An in that short while we were gone, there has emerged this report from…

Online retailer Amazon’s Prime Air division has finally released its flagship MK30 drone, and we have to say it looks… distinct. We are wondering whether it was its quest for…

Well, well, well. Some stories come back at you just like that; and it would feel like it was a gazillion years ago that you reported on them. And so…

Airspace security provider Dedrone has launched DedroneBeyond, a system designed to enable law enforcement and emergency services to carry out drone operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) during first…

There is no doubt that the Elios – a sturdy drone by Swiss manufacturer Flyability – has changed the game when it comes to inspections in confined spaces. This could…

Our expert researchers at Drone Industry Insights have released their latest instalment of their regional and national outlook, and this one is focussed on the DACH region. This is the…

It is a dream that has been five years in the making and this must be a very proud moment for Herbert Weirather, Mirko Cesena and the folks at Swiss…

Think of a problem; there is probably a drone to solve it. Drones have made a lot of previously dangerous operations safer; have collected more reliable data, have brought healthcare…

Touched by the prospects of a bleak future that await children and youths in the Kongwa community in Dodoma, central Tanzania, Tanzania Flying Labs (TFL) are forging ahead with efforts…

Having grown up during the heyday of the Nokia 1100 and 1110 – two of the best-selling cellular phones of all time with a combined 500million sales between them; and…

We understood that Malawi has been forging ahead with initial efforts to introduce drone technology into wildlife conservation in recent years. Now, seeing as the government has announced plans to…

In their continuing series of a closer scrutiny into how the drone industry is faring in specific countries and regions, researchers at Drone Industry Insights have lifted the lid of…

Our congratulations and best wishes are in order for Zimbabwe Flying Labs. The fledgling drone and robotics services enterprise has been shortlisted as one of the top ten start-ups in…

The South African drone industry was engulfed in tragedy at the weekend, following the death of Kelebogile Olivia Molopyane, the founder of the Drone Diva Programme, last Friday. She was…

World leading drone maker DJI has released the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone, a 249gram machine, which the manufacturer says is perfect for creatives. Below is the press release issued…

It is September, and it is time for the next batch of drone divas in South Africa to take their posts. To recap for the uninitiated, South Africa’s Drone Diva…

American enterprise drone maker Skydio has released the Skydio X10 as their latest offering for the enterprise market. It is a machine the manufacturer is really keen to make sure…

Do you understand how much military and police services people love their bars? Of course, it would be hard to understand if you have never been a member of the…

…to use drones locally designed and made by local start-up It looks like Rwanda is realising that there is a drone for every problem. Well; not every problem of course;…

Saturday, 16 September 2023 would have been the day when all drones flying without Remote Identification would be deemed to be flouting the laws of the land. But now commercial…

AgEagle, the parent company of the eBee drones has announced that its newest drone issue, the eBee Vision is now available for order, following its launch a couple of months…

Remember how, just a few days ago, we were patting RocketDNA on the back for obtaining the regulatory authority to operate the DJI Dock in Australia? Well; the drone services…

They already have a Flying Labs representative among their midst, so Colombia must be doing something right in their contribution towards the drone industry in the global south. It is…

We guess the US Federal Aviation Administration was feeling really generous at the Commercial UAV Expo held in Las Vegas this past week. Fresh from handing out Beyond Visual Line…

Two US companies will be flying drones far and wide after the Federal Aviation Administration granted them licences to conduct beyond visual line of sight flights. Package delivery company UPS…

The results of Drone Industry Insights’ 2023 Drone Barometer Survey are out. And here is the long and short of it – a few more people are finding employment in…

As in Africa, there are countries in Latin America that are beset by transport challenges; a situation that has given an opportunity for drone technology to thrive, especially in the…

A Zambian drone start-up is today basking in glory after completing a successful exploratory mission using drone technology in north western parts of the country recently. Zanifi Enterprise Limited –…

A South African drone services start-up is backing agricultural drones to soon overtake manned aircraft and other conventional means as the best crop spraying option to deal with the menace…

In 2015, Chinese drone maker DJI opened DJI Agriculture, a department solely dedicated to providing drone-based solutions for the agriculture industry. Since then, the company has been making unmanned aerial…

… and, maybe, when not to? For those farmers and agriculture professionals still thinking of whether or not to choose drone technology to replace traditional crop spraying methods, the article…

What would you do when you become one of the first companies in the world to purchase DJI’s inaugural drone-in-a-nest system, the DJI Dock? Set the little beats inside free…

We have only heard of the Dangote Group by word of mouth. Apparently, it is a modest holding company in West Africa that is involved in energy, agriculture, logistics and…

It was the M350 a few weeks ago; today it is the M30. Autonomous systems parachute services provider ParaZero continues to its solution to the most popular industrial drones from…

Countries in Southern Africa – particularly those close to the Indian Ocean – have suffered devastating loss of lives, property and untold damage to infrastructure, owing to unwelcome annual visits…

The article below was written by Bertus van Zyl; drone technology professional and Managing Director at UAV Aerial Works, a top drone services provider in South Africa. The company runs…

South African precision agriculture software provider Aerobotics is looking to make further inroads into the US market with the release of its Aeroview platform, which will come as part of…

One of the big reasons why we love to present reports from research company, Drone Industry Insights as they are is that they always give us a sober analysis of…

A couple of months after announcing a partnership to deploy drone technology in the delivery of medical supplies across select countries in Africa, German drone logistics company Wingcopter and fellow…

Innovation. Thinking outside the box. That is what 424 drone sightings near your prison facilities can do for you. And so it is that the Department of Corrections in South…

Any of you guys remember a story we carried a few months ago, where a Chinese solar installation company used a drone to transport solar panels 300metres from the foot…

…USA elderly couple makes history with over 1,000 drone deliveries to their Virginia home By March this year, drone logistics services provider Wing had completed its 300,000th flight. And those…

Usually when we report a drone sighting in the vicinity of a sports arena, it is because a naughty drone user is trying to get a peek on the action…

Our ever-analytic pals at Drone Industry Insights have released their latest take on the direction the drone industry has been taking in 2023. It is going up. But what we…

As autonomous package delivery moves beyond the nascent stage, industry and government leaders should focus on a regulatory and industry-level changes to speed worldwide adoption, according to Arrive, an Indiana,…

Israeli-based commercial drone safety systems provider ParaZero has released a parachute system specifically for DJI’s latest enterprise model of drones, the M350 RTK. Which is just as well, because that…

Today’s Drone of Reason is a no-brainer: August 9 every year is Women’s Day in South Africa, a day which derives its superpowers to the women’s marching protest in 1956;…

Looking at it with just an eye test, the drone does look like a huge bird with massive wings protecting a really long thin line of spray metal beneath them….

Researchers at Drone Industry Insights have released their analysis of the state of drone regulation in 2023, and below is their report. Drone regulations are structured so that binding aviation…

A delivery drone recently made a successful delivery of medical to a health facility in The Gambia recently, in a first for the country that could kickstart the onset of…

Canadian cargo drone maker Drone Delivery Canada’s new drone has been declared fit enough to fly over people in the country. DDC has just announced that Transport Canada – the…

Now that unmanned aerial systems have proved their worth for commercial operations world, the race is now on for the next industry where drone technology’s value will be realised. Drones…

Today we’re gonna talk drone parachutes. You know, those pieces of material that are practically the airbags for drones – you hope they never get to flap open; but want…

The world’s biggest drone maker DJI has released a new drone, the DJI Air 3, the successor to the Air 2S whose aerial imaging prowess the manufacturer claims are enhanced…

As a parting short for their three-year partnership with mango producers in Cote d’Ivoire, the Germany Federation of Export Trade donated a DJI Agras T40 drone to the farmers’ representative…

A local drone company has flown into to assess the trail of destruction left by the massive explosion that ripped through Lilian Ngoloyi (formerly Bree) Street in Central Johannesburg last…

Readers may remember the story we broke in May 2021, that the Botswana government, though its health ministry, was working with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Botswana…

It might go quietly now, but in the future, the drone industry might look back at July 17 2023 as the day the gods smiled upon it, and its luck…

We love this – questions about drone technology in Africa are moving beyond just the hype to the hard yards needed to scale up drone operations in every facet of…

We are so hurt. We feel betrayed and let down and disappointed and upset and saddened and… everything that dispirits a person’s soul. We thought the guys over at Drone…

The world leading drone manufacturer is literally fighting for its life on the US market. DJI – whose Chinese roots are threatening to render its already precarious existence in the…

It is the seventh drone and robotics services franchise in Southern Africa, the 21st in Africa and the 40th in the world. WeRobotics has just given birth to another baby;…

Deta Drone International has rebranded again. The drone services company is now known as RocketDNA. It chose to announce its new name alongside a new contract signed with mining giant…

Drone manufacturer DJI’s interactive rescue map, which plots areas where drones have played a starring role in rescuing human life, has now passed the 1,000 milestone. The latest statistics compiled…

It is just like the headline says – it seems like cleaning services are steadily emerging as yet another niche market for which drone technology is finding a home. Drone…

Perhaps it is something that needed saying – and now somebody has said it aloud. Just a Remote Pilot Licence is not enough to give somebody a rewarding career in…

We are in India again today, where the Greater Chennai City Police (GCP) has launched a Police Drone Unit, which a first for the police service in the country. The…

The Indian government introduced measures to protect the growth of its fledgling drone industry by banning all civilian drone imports in 2021 – and now it seems those protectionist policies…

Working with their partners in Denmark, delivery drone manufacturer Rigi Technologies think they have arrived at a novel way of delivering small packages at offshore sites. Well; it is not…

South Africa had a suspected case of a drone disturbing flights at a major airport this week. This Thursday, local airline Fly Safair announced that its flights from OR Tambo…

It might be slow steps, but the South African Police Service is moving in the right direction as far as integrating drone technology into police operations is concerned And last…

In a continent where the technology still has a lot of ground to cover, it is heartening to note that stakeholders in the drone industry are working round the clock…

When it comes to drone offenders, we guess it takes all kinds. Here we have covered criminal activities involving drones, which have ranged from drones flying over sports stadiums, carrying…

Is it BVLOS licence award season in North America? It was Percepto and Valmont a few days ago. And today is Canadian drone maker Drone Delivery Canada’s turn to announce…

Good times are certainly on a roll for beyond the visual line of sight flight missions in the USA at the moment. While Percepto was yesterday celebrating its acquisition of…

Fresh from receiving a nationwide waiver to operate unmanned aircraft systems on critical infrastructure sites from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), autonomous drone inspection and monitoring solution provider Percepto has…

Italian aerospace, defence and security company Leonardo has revealed that it is working on a research project where drone technology will be safely integrated in busy airspaces alongside other airborne…

It looks like drone flights beyond the pilot’s visual line of sight are moving out of prescribed corridors and into the public arena in the United Kingdom. This, after Boeing-backed…

For the first time since they entered into Japan, autonomous aerial vehicle maker EHang have seen their passenger drone fly between two islands. The company has just announced its flagship…

At a time when there has been interesting debate about last inch delivery methods on the drone delivery market today, another has popped up, with a promise for precise, inch…

After introducing themselves to the world via their game changing effectiveness in medical delivery, it was just a matter of time before delivery drones branched out into general parcel delivery….

Passenger and cargo UAVs have taken off in Israel for the first ever time, as part of initiatives to test the feasibility of integrating drone technology as part of public…

Drone services provider Delta Drone International – through its Rocketmine South Africa and Rocketmine Australia subsidiary operations – has announced that it has achieved the Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS),…

It is a reality of the world we live in today that there is very little to no love lost between the USA and China; a situation that has spilled…

German drone logistics company Wingcopter will be expanding its medical delivery operations in Africa, after signing a partnership agreement with fellow German medical technology company Siemens Healthineers. Announced today, the…

Nominations are now open for Women And Drones’ annual Global Women in Emerging Aviation Technologies Awards. Now in their seventh year running since 2017, the worldwide awards seek to recognise…

Like the kids of today would say; find somebody who commits to you like the Rangelov brothers committed to getting the Black Swan cargo drone soaring into the skies. Or…

Swiss drone maker RigiTech will introduce its drone logistics solutions to the US market via a partnership agreement with Arizona-based healthcare transport solutions provider, Spright. The partnership will see Rigitech…

Just how useful has drone technology been to various industrial applications? We do know how military grade drones have changed and are continuing to change the face of warfare forever….

(Spoiler Alert… it was white) Exactly a year ago today, cargo drone company Dronamics was flying in seventh heaven after being the first middle distance drone company to acquire a…

Healthcare providers in France are looking at investing in delivery drone technology, and Dutch drone maker Avy was there recently to help show them how it will work. In recent…

Autel Robotics, one of the biggest drone makers in the world, has entered a new player into the game of drone nests. The Chinese company recently launched the EVO drone…

The world’s biggest industrial drone manufacturer, DJI, has launched yet another new drone; this time on the Matrice range. The new DJI Matrice 350 RTK (M350RTK) is supposed to be…

Drone technology has worked out the equation of getting packages to where they are needed in record time. But the question still remains on how do you actually get a…

Globhe Drones, the world’s biggest drone-for-hire platform recently signed a deal with the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Malawi that would see the former providing drone services in…

So; how have the drone companies and drone services providers listed on stock exchanges been performing in the past year. The good people at research company Drone Industry Insights have…

German drone logistics company Wingcopter’s mission to deliver medical supplies to needy remote parts of the world as well as other small packages has just received 40 million reasons to…

Last year, drone services company DroneDeploy helped train at least 40 young South Africans on how to fly drones and use them to collect data The project was part of…

South African engineering services company Delta Scan will be in Italy next week, where they have been invited to showcase their drone-based solutions in infrastructure inspections. The company’s managing director…

Over the last few years, we have come to know Zipline as a drone logistics company that made its name delivering medical supplies, first in Africa; then back at its…

There is never a dull time for the drones in the employ of the emergency services department in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. There are the Table Mountains in the…

South Africa’s air traffic management body, the Air Traffic Navigation Services (ATNS) has decided to lend a hand in the push for the growth of the drone industry in the…

As drone technology continues to make strides in various industrial applications, drone patrols have been introduced in the port area of the Belgian city of Antwerp. Launched on May 5,…

French drone company Azur Drones has released the second generation of its Skeyetech model of industrial autonomous drones, which it says is set to take precision drone missions at premises…

Non-Governmental health care organisation VilageReach’s Global Technical team Director Tapiwa Mukwashi recently went on a canoe ride in the DRC, a journey which gave him a practical appreciation of the…