Industry
Parrot Drones Increases Support to African Agriculture
February 28, 2018A shared-cost initiative between Parrot Drones and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has been launched for the deployment of drones for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The CTA, a...
Energy & Utilities
This Man Will Use Drones to Help Dismantle a Nuclear Power Plant in Spain
February 27, 2018The Cordovan company Universe Drone has an ambitious project in which, for the first time, it will use piloted drones to take measurements of nuclear radioactivity during the process of dismantling the...
The Drone Wire
Improving Drone Performance in Headwinds
February 27, 2018Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The prevalence of multi-rotor drones has increased dramatically in recent years, but in headwinds they pitch upwards unpredictably. Engineers from Tohoku University, Japan, have...
The Drone Wire
UAVOS Demonstrates “Tractor” Mod for VTOL Drone at UMEX
February 27, 2018UAVOS Inc has introduced its SURVEYOR-H Unmanned Aerial System with UVH-290E drone vertical takeoff/landing within unmanned systems exhibition & conference UMEX (February, 25 – 27, Abu Dhabi). The new unmanned helicopter in...
Industry
Will First Ever Crop Planted Completely by Drone in UK Mean Lost Jobs?
February 27, 2018It’s a common conundrum – do new technologies do people out of jobs, or create new ones? While companies in other countries are seeking to attract a younger generation to agriculture with...