Research

Rolls-Royce has finalised trialling its ground-breaking technology that will power “the world’s fastest all-electric plane”, reports a company press release this week. The technology has been tested on a full-scale replica of the plane’s core, […]

A new Honeywell R&D laboratory, resembling a conceptual UAM vehicle flight deck with actual hardware, is demonstrating the company’s technological capabilities within the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and urban air mobility (UAM) markets. The company […]

Israel’s Percepto claims to be the most deployed autonomous drone-in-a-box solutions, reports dronelife.com. Safety is an integral part and paramount for any system designed to operate without the required intervention of human pilots.  Percepto has now […]

Researchers Shaojie Shen and Chuhao Lio from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have unveiled a new and intriguing innovation which uses holographic augmented reality hardware to generate live 3D terrain maps and allows […]

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced this week that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded USD3.3 million in research, education and training grants to universities that comprise FAA’s Air Transportation Centre of Excellence (COE) […]

New York-based SkyOp has launched a drone consultancy service for companies interested in employing UAV technology for their business, reports commercialdroneprofessional.com. SkyOp believes there is a growing demand for such information on how to implement […]

The idea of extending drone deliveries by parking the craft on bus roofs has been discussed for a while, reports venturebeat.com. However ‘odd’ this may sound, by using algorithms and the existing city bus networks […]

The Department of Justice has awarded a USD280,000 grant to Texas State University’s Forensic Anthropology Centre to employ drones to speed up the discovery of dead bodies and human remains “in both urban and rural areas”, […]

A new video from NASA Langley Research Centre showcases its Langley Aerodrome 8 (LA-8), a modular unmanned aerial vehicle that is being used to explore how different technologies and configurations of eVTOL aircraft will perform […]