UAV

Most hobbyists consider their drone to be a terrific tool — a lot less dangerous than a hammer and way more fun. But there are times when we wonder about the drone’s dark potential. What could it do in the wrong hands? Out of a sense of good citizenship, though,...

Oakland-based Pyka shares a goal common to many high-tech California aviation startups: to build an autonomous electric passenger aircraft. However, its first steps to get there have taken the company far away from the pack, first to New Zealand and now to banana plantations in Costa Rica and Ecuador, where...

Brazil has vast arable land and a suitable climate for agriculture, enabling it to be one of the largest target markets for plant protection products in the world. The increasing demand for food around the world also drives the development of Brazil's pesticide market. In recent years, the sales of...

The Atlanta Falcons' home, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is believed to be the first professional sports venue to implement drones to clean the stadium, but they're not the only ones using new technology. Beginning after the team's Oct. 11 game against the Carolina Panthers, the 71,000-seat stadium, which has not hosted fans for the...

Harpers Ferry farmer Jon Kruse is utilizing a unique method of planting cover crops this fall - a drone. September 16, Kruse hired Devin Brincks, a Rantizo contractor, to fly his drone over standing soybeans to seed red clover as a cover crop. Aerial cover crop application is growing in...

The Israeli agtech startup, which utilizes drones for its AI-powered crop image analysis system, doubles its fundraising power…   Today (Tuesday) Israeli agtech startup, Taranis, announced a $30 million funding round, bringing an end to the company’s Series C round, which was led by Vertex Growth, K3, and Japanese strategic investor Hitachi Ventures. Additional investing participants include Vertex...

China has deployed hundreds of pesticide-equipped drones to stop a swarm of locusts from invading its farmland and fields. The yellow-spined bamboo locusts have reportedly entered the tea-growing city of Pu'er, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, after arriving from Laos last month. Officials say at least 8,000 hectares of...

Mitchell Hora, a farmer in Washington, Iowa and owner of Continuum Ag, has been utilizing cover crops for 4 years. In the summer of 2019, he set up a two-acre field trial to experiment with more diverse cover crops in a wider, 60-inch, row spacing. “With harvesting and then planting our...

HSE-UAV has been selling spraying drones in America longer than anyone else we know. But 10 years ago we started out as most drone companies: let’s throw a camera on this thing and sell it! Then we realized that camera drones were a dime-a-dozen…there must be a more impactful way...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found use in agriculture for decades, with unmanned helicopters spraying pesticides on rice fields in Japan back in the 1980s. Now, to have drones reach their full potential in farming, research is increasingly pushing toward beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. Agriculture is a...