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Uber, the ride-hailing giant said on Monday that it is teaming up with Zipline, the autonomous drone-delivery firm, to fly Uber Eats orders to customers across the United States, sweetened by an undisclosed strategic investment. It is a striking vote of confidence in a company that has spent the past year busily pivoting from hospital drops […]
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Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe’s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan’s Rakuten, a name better known for e-commerce and mobile phones, to help broker the sale of its unmanned systems to Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Forces. At the centre […]
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Donald Trump signed the proclamation on 13 August. It carries the title Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States. It rests on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the national security clause, and on Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974. The rates, […]
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The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being sent aloft to plug the gap, quietly becoming sensors that […]
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DoorDash has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its own delivery drones, and promptly made clear that most of your food will still arrive by human. The company unveiled an in-house programme called DoorDash Air on 29 July, built around a custom drone of its own rather than the partners it has […]
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DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders Read More »
GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made Excalibur artillery shells fell out of favour after initial successes because their GPS guidance was jammable. Even fibre-optic control wires have been countered by entangling lines strung across fields. The […]
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