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Folks’ imagination is boundless… but the Orem, UT, Police Department deserves the prize for the greatest sense of humor! See their FB post: http://bit.ly/2kxVbRE

Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/2c8l4PK Posted 7 hours ago by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) Parrot, the French company that is probably best known for its AR.Drone and Bebop drones, today announced the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for helping drones and robots navigate indoors, avoid obstacles and map its surroundings. The S.L.A.M.dunk (I know I’ll never tire of typingRead more

Original Source: http://for.tn/2bTHcxQ by Claire Zillman @clairezillman AUGUST 25, 2016, 8:53 AM EDT “This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea.” Some of the world’s biggest companies—Amazon, Google—are itching to make commercial deliveries by drone, but a pizza restaurant may beat them to it. On Thursday, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises—an international franchiser of the Domino’s Pizza brand—conducted a demonstration ofRead more

Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/2b52NaG Posted Aug 17, 2016 by Darrell Etherington (@etherington)   Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make autonomous flying taxis a real thing for dense urban areas where traffic congestion isRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/29Sxlux RENO, Nev. July 22, 2016 – 7‑Eleven, the world’s largest convenience retailer, and Flirtey, a leading independent drone delivery service, announced they have completed the first fully autonomous drone delivery to a customer’s residence to advance research toward integrating drones into the National Airspace System. This delivery is the first time a U.S.Read more

Original Source: http://engt.co/2abMNAh You can pick one up from Kickstarter for €5,000. Andrew Tarantola , @terrortola 07.19.16 in Security The manufacture, dissemination and use of anti-personnel mines were effectively banned in the late 1990s when 133 nations signed the Ottawa Treaty. But despite that international agreement, an estimated 100 million mines remain buried beneath former warRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/25d4dV1 Dedrone Founders Ingo Seebach, Joerg Lamprecht & Rene Seeber 17. May 2016 Fast-Growing Dedrone Raises $10M Series A Menlo Ventures leads round to accelerate growth of drone detection market San Francisco, CA – May 17, 2016 – Dedrone, developer of a market-leading civilian drone detection system, today announced that it has raisedRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1sbVIb3 The drone revolution is disrupting industries ranging from agriculture to filmmaking. According to a new study by PwC on the commercial applications of drone technology, the emerging global market for business services using drones is valued at over $127 bn. With drones poised to have an impact on business operations of companies inRead more

Original Source: http://apne.ws/1Mw6NwI In this Friday, March 25, 2016, photo provided by Flirtey, an independent drone delivery company,… Read more RENO, Nev. (AP) — A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the firstRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1RVDeUq The competition to capture big industrial customers is heating up By Ben Popper on March 7, 2016 12:47 pm The drone business is booming, and companies which manufacture these aerial robots are increasingly trying to produce units that can straddle the divide between the consumer and enterprise market. 3D Robotics, one of the biggest USRead more