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The company hacking away at the red tape keeping us all from a world of instantaneous drone delivery is … UPS?

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the logistics company a key approval on the way to delivering packages by drone. It has awarded UPS's “Flight Forward” drone delivery program Part 135 certification, which means UPS is basically a government recognized drone airline. As opposed to other companies that have approval for location-specific testing programs, UPS can now officially operate as many drones as it pleases, wherever it wants. But there's a big catch.

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As the MIT Technology Review points out, the broad certification is a mostly theoretical, if significant, hurdle. At this point, Part 135 certification means UPS will still need individual approval for each drone flight that operates out of the operator's line of sight. That covers any package delivery that goes from a delivery c..

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The 1,000 Skydio 2 drone has four propellers, six navigation cameras, a belly-mounted removable camera and a 4K main camera to shoot video.
If you're a snowboarder, mountain biker, skateboarder, rock climber or trail runner looking to publicize your adventures, there's a new eye in the sky to add a fresh angle to your videos. The second-generation Skydio 2 carries over the original model's core ability, avoiding obstacles as it follows and records you. But now it's got better navigation, controls, speed, range, video quality and, perhaps most important, a $1,000 price tag instead of $2,500 for last year's first-gen model.
A flurry of interest in drones earlier this decade subsided when most folks realized they didn't really need an expensive flying camera. But people are still interested in capturing adventurous moments, and plenty of them buy GoPros for that reason. That's where Skydio's self-flying R2 fits in: It gives you a perspective you can..

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The trial demonstrated the drones’ capabilities to arrive more than seven minutes before paramedic vehicles during each test flight.

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A ground-breaking trial using 4G LTE cellular connectivity to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drones to deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of a cardiac arrest has taken place in the County of Renfrew. Working in partnership with technology providers, including InDro Robotics, Cradlepoint and Ericsson, the trial demonstrated the drones’ capabilities to arrive more than seven minutes before paramedic vehicles during each test flight. The County of Renfrew Paramedic Service will use these results to plan deployment strategies that reduce time to treatment for people suffering cardiac arrest, and for those who need urgent medications, in private, residential or rural locations.
“What’s particularly innovative and exciting about this trial is the pote..

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Enlarge / A “Black Fin” uncrewed submersible vehicle and two weaponized radio-controlled cars, produced from off-the-shelf hardware by the Portuguese navy's Unmanned Vehicle Experimentation Cell.

You don't have to have a huge budget like the US Department of Defense to harness emerging technology for mayhem. During NATO's Recognized Environmental Picture Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) event last month—an uncrewed systems exercise held on the coast of Portugal—the Portuguese navy revealed its own in-house robot and drone capabilities, including some developed by the navy's Unmanned Vehicle Experimentation Cell (Célula Experimentação Operacional de Veículos Não Tripulados, or CEOV). This unit—made up of a handful of sailors with extensive technical training and talents in hardware hacking and engineering—has built prototype weapons derived from off-the-shelf hardware.

Among the devices shown off for journalists—including James Rands of J..

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