Joshua Bird's One-Motor Drone Flies, but Only in His Bedroom
Maker and YouTuber Joshua Bird has flown a drone that hovers and steers on a single motor, with no servos, no tail rotor and no second propeller. His video, posted Saturday, shows the 3D printed...
View ArticleWSJ Says Musk Ordered Ukraine's Starlink Cap. Musk Said POTUS Decides
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter, that Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of Starshield, the military-grade Starlink service Ukraine’s...
View ArticleAntigravity A1 on a Watch and Ring Tracked Me Through a Dense Forest
Antigravity just released two new accessories that change the way you fly the A1: a Watch Remote and a Ring Remote. With the new Follow Me Bundle, those two are all you need to control the drone. You...
View ArticleDJI Dock 4 Demoed for Belgian First Responders. US Teams Can't Buy It
Belgium’s UAS State Operator program, which trains drone pilots for police, fire and civil protection, turned ten on Friday, October 16, 2026. About 250 visitors marked it at PLOT, Limburg province’s...
View ArticleAntigravity A1 Hits $799 Without Goggles. New Controller Skips the US
Antigravity put the A1 on sale today, October 20, in a Follow Me Bundle that costs $799 and leaves out the Vision Goggles and the Grip motion controller every A1 has shipped with since December. In...
View ArticleIntel Asks FCC to Spare Its Fab Robots From the Drone-Ban Playbook
Intel asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on October 16 for an expedited waiver so the automated guided vehicles that move materials through its U.S. fabs can keep receiving hardware,...
View ArticleApian Drones Flew 13,000 NHS Items. One Render Shows the Blood Route
Apian has flown more than 13,000 clinical items across London by drone since October 2024, by the count its vice president of robotics and design, George Cave, gave in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. He...
View ArticleWestborough Votes 510-13 to Ban Amazon Drone Pads and Drop Zones
Westborough voters passed a general bylaw on Monday night, October 19, that bans any commercial drone launch pad, landing pad or delivery drop zone anywhere in town, by a vote of 510 to 13 at a Special...
View ArticleInquirer Calls Police Drones 'Cheaper.' Lower Merion Asked $375,000
Police in Upper Darby and Bensalem, two suburbs on opposite sides of Philadelphia, now send drones to calls before a patrol car gets there, and The Philadelphia Inquirer published the trend on October...
View ArticleDJI Osmo Pocket 4P Video Lists ActiveTrack 9.0, Press Release Says 8.0
DJI put the Pearl White Osmo Pocket 4P on sale today at 12 PM GMT, at £529 for the Standard Combo in the UK, the price the black model has carried since the July 30 global launch. The launch video DJI...
View ArticleIowa Sheriff's Thermal Drone Finds Crash Driver Unhurt in a Field
Webster County sheriff’s deputies in Iowa used a thermal drone to find a driver who had vanished from a crash scene near Harcourt over the weekend. The vehicle was empty when deputies arrived, and the...
View ArticleCarolina Rescue Team Flies New DJI M4T, Calls the Ban Overreach
The Carolina Emergency Response Team, an all-volunteer nonprofit based in Charleston, South Carolina, put its Drone Task Force through hands-on training on a new DJI Matrice 4T thermal drone on...
View ArticleKirkwood Killed Walmart's Drone Nest in 40 Seconds Without a Vote
Walmart and Wing’s first drone nest in the St. Louis suburbs died on Thursday night without a single council member touching it. At 58 minutes into the October 15 meeting of the Kirkwood City Council,...
View ArticleManna Rates Tulsa Bases at 24 an Hour. Restaurants See 3 to 20 a Day
Manna Air Delivery has put a number on its new Tulsa drone bases: up to 24 deliveries an hour each. The figure is in a release Manna posted on October 13 and sent over Business Wire on October 14,...
View ArticleØrsted's Turbine Drone Looks Like a DJI Heavy Lifter the US Taxes 100%
Ørsted spent four weeks flying maintenance kits of 121 to 143 pounds (55 to 65 kg) from a service vessel to turbines at Hornsea 2, its wind farm in the North Sea, with Skyports Drone Services flying...
View ArticleDJI Neo 2 Reads 492 Feet Below Takeoff, Nears Auto-Return at 71%
Marcus, who runs the Idaho Quadcopter YouTube channel, flew a 151-gram DJI Neo 2 off the rim of the Snake River Canyon at Dedication Point, about 16 miles south of Kuna, Idaho, and took it down to the...
View ArticleRed Cat Bids €205M for Its Drone Boat Engine Maker After Walking Away
Red Cat Holdings will offer €39.00 in cash for every share of Steyr Motors AG, the Austrian company whose diesel engine powers the Variant 7 drone boat Red Cat builds in Georgia and Maine, the Salt...
View ArticleChina Puts Big Drone Motors and Props on Its Export License List
China will require export licenses for heavy-lift drone motors, their speed controllers and large carbon-fiber propellers starting November 18. The Ministry of Commerce published the revised list on...
View ArticleArcher Flies Midnight Over San Francisco Bay, Runway to Runway
Archer Aviation flew its piloted Midnight air taxi around San Francisco Bay over several days, taking off from and landing at Oakland International Airport. One flight went from Oakland to San...
View Article29 Governors Ask DOJ for a Prison Drone Course Its Rule Already Offers
Twenty-nine governors from both parties have asked the Trump administration to open up counter-drone training for the state and local agencies that gained the power to take down drones under the Safer...
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