Tele2 AB (“Tele2”) and the q-trade platform foodora have announced that they will launch food deliveries using IoT and 5G connected drones. The deliveries will be made wherever possible to the customers’ property or garden and lowered with a cable from the drone, with the first deliveries taking place already in the spring on Värmdö, outside Stockholm. (more…)
March 14, 2024
Posted by: Magda Dabrowska
Federal Communications Commission has adopted new, more flexible rules for the 60 GHz spectrum band to support radar technology. Many technologies rely on short-range radars to support important applications including alerting drivers to children left in dangerously hot cars, improving mobility and health outcomes by detecting hand gestures and respiratory functions, and assisting drones in construction, emergency rescue, and commercial settings. (more…)
May 29, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Following a recent investment in aerospace company Altitude Angel, BT Group is trialing the UK’s initial commercial drone operations that aims to build the world’s longest automated drone ‘superhighway’. (more…)
April 10, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
XAG Agricultural Drones, a P40 and V40, have been granted ever Operational Authorisation from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for agricultural spraying operations. With the efforts of XAG’s partner, AutoSpray Systems, drone spraying and spreading on farms become legal in the UK, which means that agriculture is about to embrace automation and AI for the net-zero goal. (more…)
January 25, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Munich, Germany. 20 June, 2022 – Due to their numerous advantages, three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motors are becoming the preferred choice for designing modern battery-powered motor products. However, reducing their size and weight to enhance ergonomics in conjunction with an extended battery life brings major design challenges. (more…)
June 21, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Guangzhou, China. 27 Dec 2021 – On 22 December, XAG Annual Conference 2021 was held in Guangzhou, China with the theme “Step into Agrifuture”, which launched a series of agricultural innovations to empower farmers with more sophisticated autonomous solutions. Five new products, including the XAG P50 and P100 Agricultural Drone, XAG M500 and M2000 Remote Sensing Drone, and the updated XAG R150 Unmanned Ground Vehicle, are released in China and will be available for global sales in 2022. (more…)
December 28, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have learned how to pinpoint the location of a drone operator who may be operating maliciously or harmfully near airports or protected airspace. They do so by analysing the flight path of the drone. (more…)
July 7, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Septentrio, a specialist in high-precision GNSS positioning solutions, has unveiled a new GNSS*/INS receiver, AsteRx-i D UAS. This multi-frequency receiver is said to combine reliable centimetre-level positioning with 3D orientation, enabling automated navigation of aerial drones and robots. (more…)
May 6, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is progressing at a rapid pace, as is the application of the technology to solve real-world problems. While the market for chipsets to address deep learning training and inference workloads is still a new one, the landscape is changing quickly (more…)
May 31, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde
Arrow Electronics has extended its convenient and flexible ARIS (Arrow Renesas IoT Synergy) platform for developing Internet of Things (IoT) devices by introducing the ARIS-EDGE-S3, which packs extra compute performance and the opportunity to add a compact user interface for richer interactions. (more…)
March 21, 2018
Posted by: Zenobia Hegde