By Chris Stonor Today, France’s top privacy watchdog, CNIL, has banned police from using drone-mounted cameras to enforce Covid-19 lockdowns, as well as for monitoring
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Category: Inspection and surveillance
UK Covid-19: Portsmouth council deploys drones “to monitor people flocking to city’s seafront” as pandemic worsens
By Chris Stonor As the pandemic worsens in the UK with deaths from Covid-19 now at an average of 1,000 per day, councils around the
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Israel’s DSraider develops drone/ground-vehicle combination for long-endurance missions
By Arie Egozi A combination of an unmanned personal ground vehicle and drones is now being developed in Israel for long-endurance civil infrastructure inspections. Urban
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Watch videos of 2021 Celebrations: “Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Edinburgh, everybody talk about… drone light shows”
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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Drone and robot work autonomously together to improve security services
By Arie Egozi Israeli company Percepto is enhancing its security services portfolio offered by its Sparrow drone-in-a-box by working together with the Spot agile robot
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Drone start-up Skygauge attracts USD3.3 million seed investment as demand increases during pandemic
By Chris Stonor Canadian robotics start-up, Skygauge, has attracted CAD3.3 million seed investment as demand for drones increase during the Covid-19 pandemic, reports betakit.com. This
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Ikea explores use of drones “to improve efficiency of warehouses”
By Chris Stonor Ikea teamed up with Amazon Robotics and Verity last month to explore how drones can improve the efficiency of Ikea’s massive warehouses
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Nordic Unmanned intends being “first publicly listed drone company in Europe”
By Chris Stonor Nordic Unmanned (NU), a “leading European provider of drone systems and services”, intends becoming a public listing on Euronext Growth Oslo (currently
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Osaka Metro deploys drones to inspect “nooks and crannies” in subway stations
By Chris Stonor The Japanese company, Osaka Metro Co, have started deploying drones within their subway stations to inspect the difficult to get to “nooks
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U.S. KDOT completes successful drone trial for disaster response and infrastructure inspections
By Chris Stonor The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) says its Division of Aviation completed a field exercise in Rossville to demonstrate the capabilities of
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