While it is common for companies to take a product, tweak the design slightly, slap a new logo on it and sell it for double the original cost, we would not expect that in the case of drones. However, there are cases of an ordinary drone being “upgraded” and sold at a much higher price than someone who knows drones would expect to pay. Check out this article about how a high end fashion...

Yuneec announced the H520 at CES in Las Vegas this year and many people are quite excited about the features of this soon-to-be-released drone. First, it is a hexacopter with the capacity to fly with only five of its six motor running in an emergency. It has three options for cameras, each of which is designed for a different task. And it has a bright orange body that is designed to be highly visi...

In France, a company called Elistair Tethered Solutions offers a live, real time look into how traffic is flowing, where congestion happens and many more data points. A single drone operator is able to control the flight for hours at a time because the drone receives power from the tether, which means there is not the usual concern with short battery life. The tethered drone uses DataFromSky traff...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a system that let you customize your own drone. The system allows you to customize the size, shape, colors, and other specifications of a drone from a template and then actually create that drone based on those specifications. “To our knowledge, this the first system that allows non-experts to design and build their own custom drone,” s...

Everyone knows about the obvious use cases for drones in ever day life. Aerial photography, racing, delivery vehicles, and of course, military applications. However, there is a “long tail” of drone uses that are not normally discussed or very obvious at first glance. Building inspections, mapping, safety, maintenance, and more. The media loves to tell stories about drones that are doin...