All the headlines from our Drones Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2018 // Andy Trench made $2,000 a day in 2015 taking sky-high photographs along the East Coast with a drone he made himself. Now, that same work fetches about $175.“It’s apparent that a lot of this industry is a race...
May 13 2018 // At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. Before MaggHD,...
May 10 2018 // The U.S. Transportation Department’s 10 winning drone pilot projects aimed at spurring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in a wide variety of fields do not include Amazon.com Inc. and China’s DJI, but do...
May 9 2018 // Nationwide has made an investment in Betterview, a machine learning insurtech startup that focuses on analyzing data from drones, satellite and other aerial imagery.Betterview said it will use the undisclosed amount of...
May 1 2018 // On-demand robotic flying taxis and drone deliveries are years away from reality, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has removed at least one barrier to their operation.Responding to work by companies including...
Apr 27 2018 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has partnered with Israel-based drone safety systems company ParaZero to offer its drone-safety products to insureds and help them manage risks involved with the operation of...
Apr 27 2018 // The world must prepare for potential malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI) by rogue states, criminals and terrorists, according to a report by a group of 26 security experts.Forecasting rapid growth in cybercrime...
Apr 18 2018 // Concerned by a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets, the world’s airlines back development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, an executive of their trade group said on...
Apr 16 2018 // Over the last year or so, the insurance industry has seen technological advances driving new products and distribution means to market. We have seen “insurtech” blossom from a term to describe the intersection...
Apr 5 2018 // When a drone flew within meters of a landing plane last week, endangering 278 passengers and crew, Air New Zealand responded by saying that such reckless drone operators should be thrown in prison. Other agencies also...
Apr 3 2018 // SkyWatch, a data analysis, risk-assessment and risk-reduction platform for the drone industry, has signed an exclusive partnership deal with Starr Companies (Starr) to offer a telematics-based UAV insurance platform.The...
Apr 2 2018 // Chinese courier company SF Holding Co. says it’s won a license to operate drones, opening up a new potential frontier for package delivery in the world’s second-largest economy.SF, the nation’s largest...
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes, challenges, expansions and growth in the past year. Here are five industry sectors and insurance markets that could offer opportunities for agents and brokers in...
Mar 20 2018 // As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects.Now the...
Mar 19 2018 // The leading trade group for helicopter operators has, for at least two years, urged a halt to open-door tours such as the one that ended in the death of five people in the East River off Manhattan on March 11.The...
Mar 15 2018 // The open-door helicopter tour in which five people died in a crash landing in the East River off Manhattan on Sunday was operating under safety restrictions reserved for photography flights that are looser than those for...
Mar 13 2018 // Flock, a London based startup, has launched Europe’s first “pay-as-you-fly” drone insurance solution.The “Flock Cover” smartphone app provides on-demand insurance for commercial drone pilots...
Mar 5 2018 // Reassurance“I want to reassure every single Texan impacted by Harvey that we will never let up until your homes and businesses are restored, until your communities are fully protected from future potential storm...
Feb 26 2018 // Europe’s aviation safety authority has proposed anti-hacking measures and geo-awareness technology for small drones to avoid collisions with aircraft or people, taking an important step toward Europe-wide...
Feb 22 2018 // Now’s the time to get in on the ground floor of the business of insuring drones.That’s according to panel of experts speaking recently in a drone insurance webinar hosted by Insurance Journal. The consensus...