By Daniel Riley Quadrocopter L.L.C, located in Whitefish Montana was one of the first companies in the U.S. to offer ready-to-fly drones designed for aerial video and photography. After their founding in 2010, Quadrocopter quickly grew into a multi-million dollar company with over 10 employees. In the past, anyone wanting to utilize drones in their […]
By Robert Prestgard-Duke With persistent warfare around the globe and the continued use of landmines within these warzones there remains a continuous problem of having to deal with these unexploded devices. According to the United Nations there are more than 110 million active landmines scattered across 70 countries with many of these countries no longer […]
By Omar Kergaye According to Google’s Project Loon homepage, an estimated two thirds of the world’s population does not have access to the Internet. This figure is astonishingly high considering how reliant people today are on Internet access. Without the Internet, there would have been no way for Egyptian citizens, among other Middle Eastern countries, to […]
By Maxwel Stocking Image: http://www.gizmag.com/australian-drone-startup-flirtey-wings-overseas/33656/ In 2011, four friends at the University of Technology – Sydney raised money to buy 300 textbooks and rent them out to users, generally students. That year they rented all 300 textbooks and had 18,000 hits on their website. Zookal was born. Since then, Zookal was has grown to service nearly […]
By Nicolas Goller As drones become more popular and more widespread, they continue to be held back by the substantial amount of power needed to keep them aloft. Replacing batteries every half an hour is inconvenient at best. The innovative charging pad from German start-up Skysense looks to eliminate the hassle involved with keeping a drone aloft. Skysense […]
By Marcus Foote Top Flight Technologies is a start-up company out of MIT with significant experience in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The team is comprised of many leaders from the Federal Aviation Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and other aerospace and software innovators. Top Flight Technologies is aimed to decimate the […]
By Matthew Givens Beyond the war zone and the realm of imagination, automated drones are becoming an increasingly ubiquitous force in our daily lives. In particular, the potential applications for hovering micro air vehicles, such as quadcopters, could be transformative in many disciplines. Among these innovations, an architecture firm in Switzerland has begun to pioneer […]
By Jesse Mathews With the increasing capabilities of new drones and technology, companies and individuals will come up myriad with new and innovated ways to use them. Skycatch is one of those companies. Skycatch allows you to hire out their drones and pilots for data capture services. It can provide site Annotations, 2-D measurements, 3-D measurements, […]
By: Jeppesen Feliciano For many people, the first image that comes to mind when they hear the word “drone” is likely a military drone like the Predator. But the quadcopter is quickly becoming the poster-child of drone technology because it has been an effective and relatively simple design. Like many first generation models, capabilities are limited to […]
By Connor Nelson Drone platforms can provide remote autonomous data collection across a number of industries, though few have yet to take advantage. Skycatch, a firm based in San Francisco, has designed its fleet of drones to do exactly that. Skycatch’s drone platform and software are designed to gather information about an area, including its […]