unmanned aerial vehicle
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The Apple Drone Is Finally Here
Even without an ongoing pandemic disrupting supply chains and making it an even bigger challenge to hire seasonal labour, being a farmer is hard work, especially around harvest time. A company called Tevel Aerobatics Technologies believes it’s come up with a better harvesting solution for fruit farmers with the apple drone: beating that other tech…
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Harmless Sound Waves Propel This Indoor Camera Drone for a Safer, Quieter Experience
The old adage that what goes up must come down seems to apply especially to drones, and during an unplanned descent, their exposed spinning propeller blades can be quite dangerous. As a safer alternative, NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile carrier, has proposed a camera-equipped blimp that navigates an indoor space using harmless sound waves for…
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DJI Mavic 3 Leaks Boast a Larger Sensor and Way Longer Flight Time
It’s been three years since DJI’s Mavic 2 drone first went on sale, and now, according to leaks, it looks like DJI has some major upgrades planned for the Mavic 3 when it comes out sometime later this spring.
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DARPA’s Latest Defence Weapon Knocks Drones Out of the Sky Using Advanced… Confetti Streamers?
As drones become faster, smarter, and capable of carrying larger payloads across longer distances, they pose a genuine threat if leveraged as a weapon. As a result, militaries have been developing anti-drone countermeasures to knock them out of the sky, including a novel new approach that blasts them with streamers.