School shootings are currently a serious social problem in the United States.  According to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database, there will be 330 school shootings in 2024, the second…

Researchers at Texas A&M University in the USA have a developed a tool that is set to transform how first response drones will assess damage after disasters. The technology, known…

Having recently become of the select few organisations to acquire a licence for docked drone operations from the national regulator – which gives it the greenlight to operate drone docks…

With the International Labour Organisation declaring April 28 every year as the Day for Safety and Health at Work, 2025 is the year new technology is set to join the…

American first response drone services provider BRINC Drones is set to scale its operations after the start-up bagged capital investment from safety and security technology services provider Motorola Solutions. Aside…

A municipal administration in South Africa has announced the launch of a drone first responder pilot project. The Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape province says integrating drone technology into…

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers in Wisconsin, USA, has designed a drone-based system to rapidly deliver an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to remote areas. The team had the…

South Africa may have had its first use case for drone technology application in a public tactical situation, after a local drone services company deployed to monitor striking workers at…

The Hempstead Police Department in Long Island, New York in the USA has announced the launch of a Drone-as-First-Responder (DFR) system, where drones will respond to emergency incidents and calls…

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…