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InterDrone Las Vegas Welcomes Leading Venture Capitalists to Program
Accel Partners to Sponsor Start-Up Zone Offers panel sessions and The Hangar for start-ups to connect with leading funding companies BZ Media LLC announced today stellar lineups for InterDrone's panel discussions ?Leading VCs Discuss Next Wave or Drone Innovation? and ?Ways to Fund Your Drone...
The battle between open-source and proprietary software for drone development
Open-source software is helping move along the drone industry with easy access to code, software, designs, and features that can be shared, modified, redistributed and implemented into developers? applications and hardware. But proprietary software is also trying to mold the industry by providing...
InterDrone Las Vegas Conference Program Announced
Largest, Most Comprehensive Conference Program for Commercial Drone Market in History BZ Media LLC announced today the InterDrone? technical conference featuring more than 104 classes, panels and keynotes. The event will debut at the Rio in Las Vegas, Sept. 9-10-11, and will also include an...
Drones Help Secure Our Beaches
Summertime is here, and people will be flocking to the beaches, ready to hit the water. Wanting to keep swimmers safe, researchers, lifeguards, and search and rescue teams are increasingly using drones in their efforts to improve safety and respond to emergency situations. Earlier this year in...
NASA tests drone collision-avoidance technology
NASA, along with its government and industry partners, has begun testing how drones will be incorporated into the national airspace. This is the third series of tests, which will include testing all the previous and new technology together for the first time. "This is the first time that we are...
Dronecode ? Common, shared open-source platform for UAVs
Craig Elder has joined the Linux Foundation as the Community Manager for Dronecode after years in various roles in the industry. He will be speaking at the upcoming InterDrone conference about Dronecode so we wanted to reach out and ask him a few questions ahead of the event. Q. You have had an...
Drone safety ? Critical for the growth of the industry
Todd Van Epps will be teaching a class on Safe and Efficient UAV Operations at the upcoming InterDrone Conference in September. Todd teaches flight instruction to new aircraft operators as well as creates custom helicopter builds for unique applications. He has developed UAVs for the agriculture...
DJI unveils new developer tools and an object avoidance system for drones
DJI is giving developers a new platform to research and test their drone applications and technology. The company announced a new quadcopter designed specifically for developers to take their hardware and software solutions to the sky. The DJI Matrice 100 (M100) provides developers everything they...
UTM NASA’s low-altitude air traffic management research for UAS
Parimal Kopardekar will be a panelist at the upcoming InterDrone Conference in September speaking about how to successfully integrate drones into the NAS (national airspace). His work at NASA on UTM (the NASA's low-altitude air traffic management research for unmanned aerial systems) is going to...
Boeing Patents Mid-Air Recharging System for Drones
Well-known aircraft manufacturer Boeing was granted a patent for a mid-air recharging system. Each aircraft or drone would be comprised of an electrically powered buoyant aircraft, a control system to maneuver the aircraft, and a retractable tether to couple the aircraft with a ground charging...
A Brief Talk About Drone Policy with DJI’s US Policy Leader
Jon Resnick leads DJI's drone policy efforts in Washington DC. Prior to joining DJI, he was a senior television planning editor with the Associated Press, leading news planning for AP's national elections coverage. Jon spearheaded AP's program to incorporate drones into professional news-gathering...
Airware, Accel and DJI look to fund the future of commercial drones
As the global adoption of commercial drones grows, organizations want to ensure the progress of commercial drone innovation worldwide. Airware just launched the Commercial Drone Fund, while DJI and Accel recently partnered up to launch the SkyFund. The Commercial Drone Fund is designed to invest...