The C-Drone Review interviews Roberto Garavaglia, Senior Vice President of Strategy & Innovation at Leonardo Helicopters, at Forum 75 in Philadelphia.
We sat down with Simcha Shore of AgroScout in his booth at Commercial UAV Expo Europe in Amsterdam on April 10.
In a groundbreaking flight, the University of Maryland UAS Test Site flew a donor kidney by c-drone autonomously 2.7mi (4.4km) from Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital to the University of Maryland Medical Center, where the organ was successfully transplanted into a patient four hours later.
Zipline International, a c-drone startup based in California with extensive medical logistics experience in Africa, inaugurated on April 24 its regular service in Ghana at a ceremony in Omenako with the country's vice-president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Okyenhene (traditional king) of eastern Ghana, and representatives from infrastructure-building donors.
Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, has obtained Air Carrier Certification for commercial c-drone deliveries from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of the Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP), the company said in a blog post.
Last week, at the Commercial UAV Expo Europe in Amsterdam, we spoke with Kevin Taylor, a Special Sergeant and the Chief Drone Pilot at Lincolnshire Police, following a presentation he made at a law enforcement and public safety panel.
The firemen who saved Notre Dame de Paris cathedral Monday evening had a modern tool at their disposal: a c-drone which flew overhead, piloted by the Parisian police who coordinated with the fire chief on the ground.
The C-Drone Review interview of Darshan Divakaran of North Carolina Department of Transportation at the Commercial UAV Expo Europe in Amsterdam on April 10.
Fotokite, a startup founded in Switzerland in 2014 with offices in Zurich and Syracuse, New York, has partnered with Pierce Manufacturing Inc., a top supplier of firetrucks in North America, to integrate an autonomous tethered "kite" drone in emergency vehicles to help provide firefighters with situational awareness.
Genius NY, a business accelerator organization based in central New York State funded by Empire State Development, has held its third annual awards event in Syracuse, awarding first prize of $1 million (€890,000) to Sentient Blue, a startup from Italy.
