Ishveena Singh

Aviation buff and YouTuber Peter Sripol may have succeeded in creating a paramotor with his 3D printer, 50 drone motors, hot glue, and duct tape. But his warning to anyone watching the video below is pretty straightforward: “Don’t try this at home. Definitely, definitely don’t do any of this at home.”

To celebrate the ever-improving imaging quality of its handheld products, technology giant DJI and its social platform SkyPixel have announced the 2021 SkyPixel Creative Video Contest with prizes totaling $46,000.

Continuing its push to become a global force, US drone maker Skydio has partnered with Australia’s Sphere Drones to accelerate the sales and distribution of its products “Down Under.”

German technology company Quantum-Systems is setting up shop in California to meet the growing demand for reconnaissance drones among US military, defense, and public security customers. The new US subsidiary will open its doors on January 1, 2022.

Drone Industry Insights (DII) analyzed more than 500 global companies whose core business is to manufacture drones. Here’s what they found…

ModalAI, a California-based drone and robotics company that spun out of Qualcomm in 2018, has launched a research and development drone that has been specifically designed to accelerate indoor autonomous navigation missions. The 550 g Seeker drone is built on the Blue sUAS framework and is powered by the VOXL CAM perception engine, another new ModalAI product.

Public safety agencies flying Skydio drones and using Axon’s digital evidence management platform will now be able to automatically upload photos and video captured on their aircraft to Axon Evidence. This capability is being made available to select agencies via an early access program.

Skydio is kicking off its Black Friday holiday sale early this year. The US-based drone manufacturer is offering a serious discount on its highly-capable Skydio 2 craft, bringing the starting price to an all-time low of $949.

Operating a drone from a moving boat can be a nerve-wracking experience for most pilots, especially since you don’t want your drone to end up in the water. Many operators rely on hand-catching the drone – a method that’s highly successful with the DJI Phantom 4 series that has its landing gear underneath the drone. But what about the more recent Mavic 2 drones?

Whoops! A YouTube channel today uploaded a video review of DJI’s flagship Mavic 3 drone ahead of its November 5 launch. It’s likely the creator channel forgot to set the visibility to “private” in YouTube video privacy settings.

From dressing up in terrifying costumes to getting candy from roving neighbors, drones and robots had some serious fun this Halloween 2021. Here’s a compilation of some of the best drone Halloween videos and photos from this year, including an epic drone light show in Dallas.

Boy, this robo-dog dances and lip syncs so well that you’d think it could actually listen to the music! In the latest viral video by Boston Dynamics, Spot the robotic dog invokes its inner Mick Jagger while paying tribute to The Rolling Stones on the 40th anniversary of their 1981 album Tattoo You.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma island has been belching lava and ash for more than five weeks now. Many have tried to take a closer look, including a DJI Mini 2 drone that miraculously survived to tell the tale but got lost when its battery died over a thicket. The story doesn’t end here, though…

As it looks to scale across North America, Europe-based Parrot is teaming up with local drone training organizations to offer system-specific training for its ANAFI USA and ANAFI Ai drones. Professional users across the public safety, enterprise, government, and defense verticals could benefit from the Parrot Certified Training Program.

After calling for new restrictions on DJI drone sales in the US, Brendan Carr, a senior Republican commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), now wants to ban Spot – the robotic dog developed by Boston Dynamics. His argument? “I’ve seen Terminator, I’ve seen I, Robot. I know how this ends.”

DJI has officially released its all-new magnetic and modular Action 2 camera. But on the sidelines of that launch event came another product announcement, albeit a much quieter one. This one’s called DJI Mic and has the potential to change the game for video creators.

For the first time ever, Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has allowed a video crew to step inside its test facilities. Hop on to see how Wing’s engineers and aircraft designers have developed delivery drone and navigation systems that are actually delivering coffee, roast chickens, Tylenol, and more in different parts of the world today.

Mere months after closing a $12.5 million Series C round, DroneBase, a California-based drone data collection and analytics startup, has raised $20 million in growth funding. The funding is being deployed across product development, international expansion, and go-to-market business units, with the company looking to hire at least 35 additional full-time employees by 2022.

MicaSense has launched the next generation of its flagship multispectral drone sensor, RedEdge-P. Offering three times the capture speed and twice the spatial resolution of its predecessor, the RedEdge-MX, MicaSense’s new sensor packs in a higher resolution, panchromatic band to deliver a pan-sharpened output resolution of 2 cm when flying at 60 m.

Update: Our Action 2 review here and also at 9to5Toys.

DJI is all set to launch the new Action 2 camera later today. In preparation for that, the company has rolled out an update for its Mimo app that will be required to unlock the full potential of the new camera. The app update is available for both iOS and Android devices.

A drone video that shows raw sewage being dumped into a UK river for 49 hours straight has shocked Britain and tapped into a national debate about the environment ahead of the COP26 climate summit.