By Chris Stonor You cannot begin a New Year (NY) following the rapidly expanding drone industry without first looking at the impact these unmanned craft
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Watch video: Drone to the rhythm – even robots experience music mojo
By Chris Stonor After a relaxing Christmas break, how do you embrace the New Year with a news article that sums up our technological future?
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A very Happy Christmas and New Year to all the Readers of ‘Urban Air Mobility News’.
A very Happy Christmas and New Year to all the readers of Urban Air Mobility News. Here’s to a pandemic-free 2021 and a year the
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UK 2020: The year public perception of drone delivery changed forever
By Chris Stonor Some might say it is perverse that a pandemic responsible for killing – to date – 1.65 million people worldwide has been
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Ireland: Drone delivery company Manna wins top “Grand Prize” at National start-up awards
By Chris Stonor The annual Irish National Start-Up Awards went virtual this year due to the pandemic, where dozens of small companies were presented with
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Mechanical gripper allows drones “to hang from objects”
By Chris Stonor Tiny quadcopter drones aka micro air vehicles (MAVs), have short battery lives, so if they can “perch” or “park” somewhere instead of
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Hybrid Air Vehicle: Meet the Airlander
By Chris Stonor In an Urban Air Mobility News occasional series of more exotic aerial vehicles either already on the market or presently being designed, it
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Major Story: Uber in discussions with Joby “to sell Elevate air taxi business”
By Chris Stonor A major UAM story was broken yesterday by axios.com. The news outlet’s scoop is that Uber are in advanced discussions with Joby
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Read report: Embry Riddle Engineering 26 page document on “Opening The Skies to UAM”
By Chris Stonor The Embry Riddle Aeronautical University has compiled a 26 page document under the guise of its Engineering Department, looking at the emerging
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Amsterdam Drone Week: EU’s UAM initiative present “manifesto on the multilevel governance of the urban sky”
By Chris Stonor The Amsterdam Drone Week has got off to a “flying start” today when the fourteen European city and region members of the
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