Shield AI is a small startup based in San Diego that received a contract from the US Air Force at the end of January as part of the Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program. Ultimately, its value may reach as much as USD 60 million for the implementation of a series of projects using the proprietary…
The HUUVER drone (Hybrid UAV-UGV for Efficient Relocation of Vessels) is being developed as part of the European Union project conducted by the Polish company Cervi Robotics. Of course, not alone, because specialists from the Polish Rectangle, Finland (LUT University), the Czech Republic (Gina Software), Austria (Brimatech Services) and Spain (NTT Data) also help at…
After the outbreak of the pandemic and the closure of the borders, it found that the shortage of seasonal blue collar workers had grown significantly. It was like water to the mill in terms of the development of automated systems to fill these gaps in the market, and the Tevel Aerobotics FAR drone collector is…
Parallel Flight Technologies from California, currently looking for investors, showed its idea for a quadcopter. This is nothing more than a huge flying drone Firefly, designed to solve the two biggest problems of drones – short flight time and low payload, but at the moment it is not known when the Firefly can go into…
Drones usually operate on the same principles that are well known to us – they deactivate the propellers only when they land on a stable and flat surface. However, scientists have found an interesting potential in an unusual approach where the drone folds up in the air without the use of any actuators. The work…
During the AIAA SciTech trade fair, the American company Scaled Composites, which is subordinate to Northrop Grumman, demonstrated a mock-up concept that shows how the unique Model 412 Encore drone can finally look like. Unique because its design includes both modularity as well as manned and unmanned modes depending on the requirements of the mission….
Six years ago, the Japanese telecommunications company KDDI began work on what has just become officially the first system in the world that integrates drones operating in different domains. I am talking about the fruit of the project FIFISH + KDDI, in which she was assisted by Qysea and Prodrone, i.e. a manufacturer of flying…
Autel Robotics can boast of the unique Dragonfish drone, which was presented at CES 2022. This uniqueness is due to the fact that it belongs to the segment of unusual eVTOL, which, after taking off vertically, can change their flight mode to that characteristic for an airplane. During CES 2022, Autel Robotics presented the Dragonfish…
The Swedish company Everdrone has developed the Emergency Aerial Delivery (EMADE) service with a drone in the lead role in cooperation with the Center for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet, SOS Alarm and Region Västra Götaland. All this to enable even faster response to crisis situations in the healthcare system, and so recently it paid…
Engineers at Stanford University boasted about their latest creation, which draws a lot from nature. We are talking about a drone with the SNAG system, which has got eagle’s claws. Thanks to them … exactly – why was SNAG created? Thanks to the SNAG system, the drone received real eagle’s claws The answer to this…
