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Sony prepares to enter the drone game with Airpeak
Sony has announced that it is entering the drone market with a new brand called Airpeak, though the specifics of the drone itself are left something of a mystery. It plans to launch the project next spring. The bare-bones announcement says only that Sony has been...
Drone taxi and bags of rice take flight in South Korea
A drone taxi and a drone delivery were tested in South Korea's capital yesterday as the country moves closer to launching unmanned air vehicles by 2025. The event, near Seoul's Han River, offered a glimpse into the future and what flying vehicles might look like in a...
Drone delivery mailbox maker Valqari lands $500K and manufacturing deal from AgEagle
Valqari, a Chicago startup building smart drone delivery mailboxes, has landed new financing from an aerial drone imagery company that's also gearing up to manufacture its devices at scale. AgEagle Aerial Systems, a drone and aerial imagery-based data collection and...
These Underwater Drones Use Water Temperature Differences To Recharge
Many of the robotic gliders and floating sensor stations currently monitoring the world’s oceans are effectively treated as disposable devices because the research community has a limited number of both ships and funding to retrieve drones after they’ve accomplished...
Daikin gives drones a whirl to slash plant inspection times
Daikin Industries plans to roll out drones in its factories this month that can cut the time needed for checks in hard-to-reach places by more than 80%, leveraging a technology that still sees little use among Japanese manufacturers. At the company's Kusatsu plant...
DroneStream launches Enterprise 2.0 and raises seed investment with Sony
The new Enterprise product has been built from the ground up, based on a foundation of feedback from thousands of Dronestream customers over the past year. New features boast a completely revamped web portal and mobile apps to bring unrivalled usability to our...