Tekever Hits $6.4 Billion as University of California Backs AI Drones
Tekever, the Portuguese-British maker of AI-driven surveillance drones, said Wednesday it has closed the first $580 million of a Series D round at a $6.4 billion valuation. The University of...
View ArticleAmazon Preps Tallahassee Drone Hub. Florida Law Gives City Little Say
Amazon is laying the groundwork for Prime Air drone delivery in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital. The company is hiring Prime Air Ground Handlers in the city at $27 an hour, has invited drone instructors...
View ArticleHouse Bill Moves FAA Drone Rules From The Box To Your First Power-On
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bill on September 15 that would make every small drone manufacturer show new pilots a safety statement built to FAA requirements the...
View ArticleOrqa, KEF And Blue Arrow Beat GPS Jamming In Front Of Green Berets
Orqa drones flew a reconnaissance mission and a payload drop at Fort McClellan, Alabama, in late August while GPS and their communications links were both being jammed, according to a joint release...
View ArticleInsta360 Luna Pro Review: 8K Gimbal Camera Tested in Alaska Wind
This is the Insta360 Luna Pro, the latest iteration of Insta360’s gimbal cameras, and it was ridiculously windy the day I took it out to test. This video isn’t sponsored by Insta360. They did send me...
View ArticleZipline Promises Ivory Coast A 300% Return, Not What It Costs
Zipline will build nine more drone distribution hubs across Côte d’Ivoire, the country Americans know as Ivory Coast, taking a single centre in Daloa to a network of 10 under an eight-year...
View ArticleDJI Osmo Pocket 4 Hits $572 on Amazon, a Price DJI Never Set
The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Standard Combo is $572 on Amazon this morning, 18% off the $699 the listing shows struck through. Amazon flags it as a limited time deal, free delivery lands September 23 to 24,...
View ArticleFCC Bars DJI Chips From New US-Built Drones on October 13
On October 13, a Federal Communications Commission rule takes effect that blocks any radio device from getting an equipment authorization if it contains a logic-bearing hardware component made by a...
View ArticleDJI Neo 3 Leak Is Recycled Box Art, and the Vents Gave It Away
A DJI Neo 3 image went round X on Monday afternoon showing the drone on a wooden table beside its new controller, and the design in it did not add up. The motors look flipped upward, the battery...
View ArticleDolomites Parks Ban Hobby Drones, DJI Mini 5 Pro Included
Denis Barbas published “Climbing the Dolomites,” a film of about three minutes shot on the DJI Mavic 4 Pro, to YouTube on September 21. It follows climbers across the range’s limestone towers this...
View ArticleDJI Spinoff Livox Halves Point Rate to Cut Robot LiDAR Cost
Livox, the LiDAR company DJI incubated in 2016 and still sells through the DJI Store, announced the Mid-360L on X on Monday: a cheaper version of the Mid-360, the 360-degree sensor it has shipped by...
View ArticleABZ Opens Hungary Drone Plant, Its FCC Pass Hinges on a US Factory
ABZ Innovation opened a €7 million ($8 million) factory extension in Szentendre, Hungary on September 17, 2026, and its CEO told Bloomberg the same day that the company will start building drones in...
View ArticleAir Force Loses Shahed Clone Off Eglin, Fishing Charter Reels It In
A Pensacola fishing charter hauled a US Air Force drone out of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, and the drone is a copy of Iran’s Shahed-136. Hot Spots Charters captain Daniel Arsenault spotted the gray...
View ArticleAmazon Wants Drones Over 6 Massachusetts Towns. Not All Have Been Told
Amazon wants to launch MK30 delivery drones from the parking lot of its warehouse at 64 Otis Street in Westborough, Massachusetts, to homes within 7.5 miles (12 kilometers), an area of about 174 square...
View ArticleAmazon Drones Overwhelm Texas Suburb, NYT Says. FAA Signed Off In July
The New York Times went to the backyard pools of Richardson, Texas, and published the result Monday under the headline “It’s Raining Boxes.” One resident’s drone tracker logged 52 Amazon Prime Air...
View ArticleBen Biggs Built The 626 km/h Blackbird On 14-Cell Packs Few Pilots Use
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs has published the full build story of the Blackbird, the quadcopter that took the Guinness World Record for fastest battery-powered RC drone at 626.42 km/h...
View ArticleBelvedere Puts Drone Delivery on the Books Before Wing Names a City
Belvedere, a city of 2,126 people on two islands in San Francisco Bay, voted 3-2 on September 14 to give first-reading approval to Marin County’s first ordinance on commercial drone delivery. No...
View ArticleQuadmovr Flies A Drone On 3D Printed Impellers Instead Of Propellers
FPV builder quadmovr posted a video on Sunday of a quadcopter flying on four 3D printed radial impellers in place of propellers. Each motor spins a centrifugal wheel inside a white PETG housing, and...
View ArticleCleveland Police Drone Policy Bans What Ohio's New Law Still Allows
Ohio’s first statewide police drone law takes effect October 6, and Cleveland’s own drone policy already outlaws four things the state law leaves legal: facial recognition, gait analysis, surveillance...
View ArticleAmazon Wants 1,000 Drone Flights a Day in CT. Comments Close Oct. 1
Amazon wants to fly up to 1,000 MK30 delivery flights a day out of its North Haven, Connecticut warehouse, roughly 365,000 a year, to addresses within 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) of the building, and...
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