Drones

Flirtey has just unveiled its new Eagle delivery drone.

Parrot has jumped on board the HD FPV train with a new camera drone that lets you strap your phone to your face.

Bell has joined the cargo drone space with its APT 70, which has just nailed its first autonomous test flight.

Chinese startup Youcan Robot is back with the upgraded BW Space Pro underwater drone.

DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program has carried out a demonstration that illustrates how fleets of unmanned aircraft can be used to secure important buildings in urban environments.

The 2019 Drone Racing League Allianz World Championship Season is due to take off on August 11, where a dozen top pilots will be racing 600 custom-built Racer4 drones. For the first time, the Drone Racing League is making a street-ready version of its latest pro flyer available to consumers.

One of the best ways to extend the range of a VTOL aircraft is to add wings for horizontal flight, and Drone Volt's Heliplane brings this kind of thinking to the industrial drone market, offering long flight endurance times, 1.6-kg (3.5-lb) payload capacity and VTOL/hover capabilities.

Those who aren't involved in drone racing will probably be surprised to know that HD vision isn't already the standard in drone racing goggles – but that's set to change with some really nice new integrated gear from DJI, and an immediate counter-attack from Fat Shark for the DIY crowd.

It looks like it was designed for the zombie-apocalypse, but the TF-19 Wasp from Ohio-based Throwflame is a serious piece of kit with potentially life-saving applications. From clearing critical infrastructure to pest management and forest fire back-burns, this modern-day dragon is nobody's toy.

​The shorter a drone's propellers, the less efficient they are at keeping it airborne. That factor, along with compact, low-capacity batteries, is the reason that small drones can't fly very long. A new two-prop drone, however, is claimed to deliver twice the flight time as same-sized quadcopters.

Only in its second year, the Drone Awards has quickly become one of the most interesting aerial photography competitions on the annual calendar. This year’s winners present a gorgeous array of images highlighting the rapid aesthetic evolution occurring in the nascent field of drone photography.

DroneShield's newly announced DroneGun MkIII uses the same frequency-jamming tactics as the company's other offerings, but is designed to work in a tighter radius with one-handed operation for a quick and easy draw.