Drones At Work 27 results

Drone Technology Helps Researchers Count Turtles On The Great Barrier Reef

Researchers at Raine Island, the world’s largest green turtle rookery, have used a drone to conduct accurate population surveys, with stunning results. Drone vision captured in December 2019 as part of the Raine Island Recovery Project showed up to 64,000 green turtles around the island ...

June 17, 2020

Volocopter Expands Into Utility Drone Business With Heavy-lift VoloDrone

Volocopter, the pioneer in Urban Air Mobility, presented the demonstrator of its VoloDrone today. This marks the company’s expansion into the logistics, agriculture, infrastructure and public services industry. The VoloDrone is an unmanned, fully electric, heavy-lift utility drone capable of ...

November 1, 2019

CATUAV Is Manufacturing And Testing A New Concept Banner Towing Drones

During last year our sister company CATUAV had been designing, manufacturing and testing a new drone concept for a novel application: pulling banners. Traditional sky ads pulled with light manned aircraft have the high operating costs associated to any certified manned airplane. ...

September 3, 2019

UAS Integration Pilot Program Drones Join Battle Against Mosquitos In Florida’s Lee County

Florida has a big problem. Actually, it’s a very small problem, but there are a lot of them: mosquitos. Fighting mosquitos has long been an existential problem for the state, home to swamps and miles of coastal marshes. The land is flat, it’s warm year-round and there’s a lot of water, all ...

November 21, 2018

Flytrex Is Partnering With EASE Drones Making Drone Deliveries A Reality In The US

Drone logistics company Flytrex, which last month opened new delivery routes across the capital of Iceland, has announced a new partnership that officially brings drone delivery to the U.S. But there's a catch. You have to be playing the back nine at an exclusive golf course to take advantage....

September 6, 2018

Allstate Mobilizes Drone Fleet Ahead Of Storm Season

As storm season approaches, Allstate Insurance is set to use drones for assessment of property damage claims across four states. A fleet of drones will be at the ready in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to help respond after any storms this spring. The multi-state launch is Allstat...

April 8, 2017

PCS Edventures And MultiGP Announce Free Webinar

PCS Edventures!.com, Inc., (PCSV) a leading provider of K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs, today announced an upcoming free webinar scheduled for April 12th that will highlight the exciting connection between drone racing and STEM education. Participating with ...

April 6, 2017

FDNY Launches Drone For The First Time To Respond to Fire

FDNY launched its first ever tethered drone to respond to a fire in a 6-story building on Crotona Park North in the Bronx. The $85,000 FDNY tethered drone weighs 8 pounds and incorporates both a high-definition camera and infrared camera. These capabilities allow the drone to transmit live ...

March 8, 2017

DJI Shows Off Cold Weather Durability Of The Inspire 2 In WRC Sweden

One of the main complaints regarding the original DJI Inspire was its low battery life, which got considerably worse in cold climates. With the Inspire 2, not only did DJI allow for the drone to carry two batteries, they also made them self-heating during flight. That addition allows the Inspire 2 ...

February 28, 2017

Here’s A Drone’s View Of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Landing

SpaceX Rocket launches are always fun to watch, but witnessing SpaceX land a rocket is always an awe-inspiring event. Elon Musk’s company successfully landed its third rocket on the ground after delivering its payload into space, and there was a drone in the sky to capture the moment. It’s a ...

February 20, 2017