A drone can capture an entire crash scene or a packed event in seconds. Now, AI is getting better at telling crews what they’re looking at. SkyeBrowse has rolled out two new AI-powered workflows: Crush Analysis and Claims, designed for vehicle crash investigations and insurance work, and Crowd Counter, which can estimate the number of people visible in an aerial image. The latter is now available directly through the DJI RC Pro for enterprise drone operations.

Skydio is making a pretty dramatic statement about where it thinks the drone industry is headed: not toward another pocket-sized camera drone, but toward fleets of autonomous flying machines that can respond to emergencies, inspect infrastructure, and patrol large properties with very little human intervention.

SkyeBrowse is giving its drone 3D modeling platform a new pricing structure, with three plans designed around how teams actually use their captured 3D models.

DJI is taking another swing at one of the less glamorous, and surprisingly frustrating, parts of professional filmmaking: getting a clean camera feed where it needs to go. The company has officially launched the DJI SDR Transmission 2, a new wireless video transmission system designed for professional productions where multiple cameras, monitors, and wireless devices are competing for space on the same set.

If you’ve ever dealt with a massive point cloud file and wondered where it fits into the rest of your project, Emesent and Trimble are trying to make that process a little less painful. Emesent announced at Intergeo 2026 in Munich that its mobile SLAM scanners can now feed data directly into Trimble Connect and Trimble Business Center, creating a more streamlined path from field scanning to finished survey and construction deliverables.

Drone operators aren’t the only ones who need to know what’s flying nearby. Airports, utilities, energy companies and critical infrastructure operators also need visibility into drones operating around their facilities. That’s the focus of a new partnership between Airwise Solutions and UAS Sentry, which aims to combine drone detection with a broader view of low-altitude airspace.

A police drone operator in the UK is facing disciplinary proceedings after a DJI Matrice 30T struck an overhead cable and then seriously injured a child on the ground.

As drone operations become increasingly remote, it’s not always possible for every decision-maker to be watching a live video feed the moment something important happens. AirData is aiming to solve that problem with a major upgrade to its live streaming platform, introducing cloud recording and a DVR-style rewind feature that lets authorized viewers jump back up to 10 minutes without interrupting an active mission.

Industrial drones have become far more than flying cameras. Today, they’re carrying sophisticated sensors capable of mapping underground utilities, detecting methane leaks, measuring underwater terrain, and even identifying mineral deposits. But getting those specialized payloads, and the technical support needed to use them effectively, has often been a challenge. That’s what SPH Engineering hopes to change.

As governments, utilities, and critical infrastructure operators increasingly demand tighter control over where their drone data lives, DJI has been steadily expanding a version of its enterprise software that never relies on the public cloud.

The future of cargo delivery may have just taken a significant leap forward. California-based Elroy Air says it has successfully completed the first fully autonomous, uncrewed flights authorized under the Federal Aviation Administration’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP), marking a milestone for commercial heavy-cargo drone operations in the US. The achievement moves the company one step closer to deploying its Chaparral aircraft for real-world logistics missions across the country.

As autonomous drones transition from pilot projects to everyday business tools, one of the industry’s biggest virtual events is set to showcase how organizations are making that shift at scale.

As commercial drone operations become more complex, operators are increasingly looking for a single platform that brings together every piece of critical airspace information. That’s exactly what Dronetag and Airwise Solutions are aiming to deliver through a new strategic partnership.

Commercial drone operations are getting more ambitious. Instead of short flights over empty fields, companies increasingly want drones that can deliver packages across cities, inspect infrastructure miles away, or help first responders without requiring a pilot to keep the aircraft in sight. That shift is exactly what A2Z Drone Delivery is targeting with its newest aircraft.

Running a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program is one thing. Keeping it staffed 24 hours a day is another challenge entirely. That’s the problem California-based Flying Lion is trying to solve with a new Remote Staffing Service designed to help public safety agencies and security organizations keep drone operations running around the clock, without having to hire and train enough in-house pilots to cover every shift.

Drone fleet management platform AirData has crossed a major milestone that offers a glimpse into just how quickly commercial drone operations are maturing. The California-based company says it has now tracked more than 65 million drone flights worldwide, covering over 850,000 drones and 470,000 pilots. And the timing couldn’t be more significant.

DJI is betting that the future of enterprise drones isn’t just about capturing better aerial imagery; it’s about helping drones understand what they’re seeing in real time. The company has announced the winners of its DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026, a global competition designed to push artificial intelligence beyond collecting data and toward making instant decisions in the field.

Drone operations beyond a pilot’s visual line of sight are becoming more common across industries, but safely sharing airspace with crewed aircraft remains one of the biggest challenges. A new partnership between uAvionix and Airwise Solutions aims to tackle that problem by giving drone operators a much clearer picture of what’s happening in the skies in real time.

As commercial drone operations expand beyond small pilot programs, many organizations are discovering that flying the aircraft is only part of the challenge. Managing pilots, equipment, approvals, compliance, risks, and thousands of flight records can quickly become overwhelming, especially as Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations become more common. That’s the problem Finland-based FlybyOps says it’s solving with its newly launched enterprise drone operations platform.

The DJI Mini 5 Pro isn’t a military drone. And the Air 3S certainly isn’t something most people would associate with the battlefield. Yet these, and several other popular DJI drone models, could potentially get caught in the Federal Communications Commission’s latest drone crackdown.

Canadian police and defense agencies have a new option for running one of their key situational-awareness tools without sending sensitive operational data to a foreign cloud provider.

Wildfire response can get complicated fast. There are drones in the air, crews on the ground, dispatch information coming in, and, increasingly, huge areas of smoke making it harder to see what is happening. BRINC is now trying to put at least one more piece of that puzzle in the same place.

When community leaders first proposed using drones to help protect residents, not everyone was convinced. Some questioned the cost. Others worried about privacy. But then the drones started finding missing people, guiding first responders, and responding to emergencies in seconds instead of nearly an hour.

Imagine a cargo aircraft that can take off like a helicopter, fly long distances like an airplane, and do it all without a pilot onboard. That’s the idea behind Halo, Archer Aviation’s new autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft built to transport heavy payloads to places where traditional aircraft often can’t operate.