Just days after releasing its first drone, the Karma, GoPro has announced a recall of the product due to safety and performance issues. Several videos online show the Karma suddenly losing power and dropping from the sky like a brick. GoPro is concerned about the safety of its product and will be issuing a full refund to all Karma owners who ship the Karma back to them. To read more about this dev...

Sweden has banned drones with cameras unless you apply for and receive a permit to fly them. The Supreme Administrative Court says that drones equipped with cameras are now to be considered surveillance equipment and will require a special license. People wishing to use a camera drone must apply for a special permit and pay a fee. This new law is troubling to drone pilots as well as hobbyists who ...

3D Robotics was poised to take the drone world by storm, but that storm never happened. Through a combination of bad management, bad forecasting and bad luck, 3D Robotics burned though a ton of money and ended up with very little to show for it. This article covers the reasons that 3D Robotics failed and tells the story of the people who believed in the company but were not able to capitalize on t...

The biggest challenge with quadcopters is their huge appetite for power. Larger batteries mean more weight and don’t always provide the flight times that pilots are demanding. The future may not lie with bigger batteries, but instead with wireless power. Electrical engineering researcher Dr. Samer Aldhaher recently posted a video demonstrating how a drone can fly for long periods of time wit...