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You absolutely need to watch this clip! I found it amazing: you fly a drone over a river in a canyon and you can make it go under water to film what is below the water surface. Looks something out of a Bond movie! If the clip is not enough …

In its recent announcement, Sept 24th 2020, Amazon revealed a mini drone, Ring Always Home Cam, designed for surveillance of closed environment, specifically designed for our homes. As shown in the photo (left) it looks like a cube with smooth edges, that would fit nicely in any home. That cube …

There has been an exponential growth in drones since they have become affordable for the mass market. Their use as an additional digital camera to complement, from a completely different perspective, the one in the smartphone has created a killer application.  Including commercial drones and industry drones the 2020 market …

Flying, to a layperson like me, seems like requiring quite a lot of energy (power consuming). As a matter of fact thisis not the case. An airplane is pretty thirsty on fuel but only during the take off and climbing phase. The real flight at constant altitude is not that …

The news is not a recent one, goes back to 2019 and in technology one year is quite a long time, but what it makes it relevant today is its application in real life. Researchers at Purdue University, probably fascinated by the amazing capabilities of hummingbirds to hover with an …

We have already had 5 drone generations (not considering military drones) with the 6th in the deployment and the 7th in the making: Basic Remote Control Fixed camera, low res video recording and digital images, manual control Assisted piloting (obstacle avoidance), 2 axes gimbal camera mounting, HD recording Autopilot mode, …

Although I am not a fan of drones (yes I have one, I received it as a present and got some fun playing with it) I keep following their evolution because they are an example of an amazingly fast emerging market that spun off out of military research and transformed …

Some years ago I was involved in evaluating the possibility to use drones to inspect telecommunications infrastructures, namely radio antennas. This is a time consuming job but it turned out the the regulation at the time was enforcing the tethering of the drone (in Italy) and the resolution of the …

The drone landscape is really expanding like the Big Bang: in just a few years the drone ecosystem is now seeing more than a thousands companies (see the infographics in the second figure of this post. Yes, I know, it is impossible to read but you can get a bigger, …

Every week a new drone is announced and although most of them look alike (at least to my untrained eye) a clear trend seems to emerge: they are getting easier and easier to interact with. DJI has announced, and it is ready for order, SPARK, the smallest drone in their …