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Collision-Tolerant LIDAR Drone

Flyability’s Elios 3 is the world’s first collision-tolerant drone equipped with a LiDAR sensor for indoor 3D mapping. The drone is powered by a new SLAM engine called FlyAware that lets it create 3D models as it flies and accompanied by a new version of Flyability’s software for inspectors, Inspector 4.0. Flyability pioneered confined space […]

The Drone is the Gimbal

Even on the show floor at Xponential 2022, with innovative ideas on display in nearly every booth, this new platform from Orthodrone in Germany stood out. Looking at is it might have dropped fully formed from the imagination of George Lucas—to hunt down the Rebel Alliance on behalf of the Galactic Empire—the unnamed multirotor features […]

Underwater Waypoints

While it clearly isn’t an aerial drone, the Hydrus from Australian-based Advanced Navigation deserves plenty of respect for behaving just like one—only underwater. Indeed, the most eye-catching aspect of the company’s booth at AUVSI Xponential 2022 was a clear cylinder full of water, with the Hydrus hovering effortlessly inside, nearly identical to a drone with […]

A Whole New Way to Fly

It isn’t every year that an entirely new mode of flight is developed—but when it is, it seems that uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) are the preferred venue, likely because new concepts can be tested at significantly less cost and risk than the alternative. One such example was on display at the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle […]

Auterion Adds Acecore Zoe

Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, is pleased to announce that Acecore Zoe is now part of the Auterion Open Ecosystem. The high quality Zoe, well known for its versatile, all-weather design, is a portable heavy-lifter that can be configured from quadcopter to octocopter for added motor redundancy. […]

Spleenlab Joins Auterion Ecosystem

Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, is excited today to welcome Spleenlab to the growing Auterion ecosystem. Spleenlab’s VISIONAIRY technology delivers AI-based perception software for drones to complete fully autonomous infrastructure detection, inspection, and collision avoidance. When Spleenlab’s VISIONAIRY software and ML algorithm are installed on Auterion’s AI […]

GoPro Hero10 Black Bones

GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) has announced the lightest GoPro ever, HERO10 Black Bones, which is purpose-built to be the ultimate FPV (First Person View) drone camera. Featuring GoPro’s flagship imaging pipeline – including the high-performance GP2 processor and Emmy Award-Winning HyperSmooth 4.0 – the camera delivers the same breakthrough image quality and blistering video frame rates […]

FoxFury Exolander

FoxFury Lighting Solutions was again on hand for Commercial UAV Expo, showing its line of rugged drone lights and beacons, as well as a new product that literally brings them all together with your drone. The aptly named “Exolander” is an exoskeletal system that mounts to an existing aircraft, such as the Autel Robotics EVO […]

FLIR VUE TZ20-R

Teledyne-FLIR took advantage of the Commercial UAV Expo to introduce its latest product for the commercial UAS market: the VUE TZ20-R, which incorporates a pair of Boson camera cores delivering 640×512-pixel thermal images up to a maximum of 25 frames per second. Each of the two cameras mounts a different lens, providing both a wide […]

Anafi AI

The new sleek, white Parrot Anafi AI has been described as resembling either a praying mantis or the starship Enterprise—or perhaps a praying mantis eating the starship Enterprise. It’s a very peculiar design. To learn more about it, I spoke with François-Xavier “FX” Charbonnel, the company’s regional sales manager for the Americas. Like many of […]