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How to Make Money with a Drone - Vital Dollar
Wondering how to make money with a drone? Here are 15 legit options that make it possible to earn extra cash or even start a full-time business.
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England’s health service will use drones to deliver vital chemotherapy drugs
The UK’s National Health Service has announced that it will test delivering vital chemotherapy drugs via drone to the Isle of Wight. The body has partnered with Apian, a drone technology startup founded by former NHS doctors and former Google employees. Test flights are due to begin shortly, and it’s hoped that the system will reduce journey times for the drugs, cut costs and enable cancer patients to receive treatment far more locally.
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Where Are the Delivery Drones?
The technology is hard and the economics of mass deliveries may never make sense.
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Amazon to launch Prime Air drone deliveries in California
Nearly a decade after Amazon began working on drone delivery, customers living in one small California community will soon be able to take advantage of the 30-minute air delivery service.
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Amazon says it will launch drone deliveries this year in Lockeford, California
Ecommerce giant is working with the Federal Aviation Administration and local regulators to secure permits.
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Wingcopter plans to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa
Wingcopter announced a partnership with Continental Drones designed to establish a massive delivery network spanning 49 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rapid Adaptation of Deep Learning Teaches Drones to Survive Any Weather
To be truly useful, drones—that is, autonomous flying vehicles—will need to learn to navigate real-world weather and wind conditions. Right now, drones are either flown under controlled conditions, with no wind, or are operated by humans using remote controls. Drones have been taught to fly in formation in the open skies, but those flights are usually conducted under ideal conditions and circumstances.
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Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda
SIX YEARS AGO, Rwanda had a blood delivery problem. More than 12 million people live in the small East African country, and like those in other nations, sometimes they get into car accidents. New mothers hemorrhage. Anemic children need urgent transfusions. You can’t predict these emergencies. They just happen. And when they do, the red stuff stored in Place A has to find its way to a patient in Place B—fast.
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Hands-on with Snapchat’s Pixy selfie drone
A flying camera that lands in your hand and costs $230.
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Drones are setting down roots in wildfire-scarred landscapes
Tree-planting drones take flight after devastating wildfires.
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Amazon drone crashes hit Jeff Bezos' delivery dreams
Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers' homes in 30 minutes. Asked when this future would arrive, the Amazon.com Inc. founder said he expected drone deliveries to commence in the next five years or thereabouts.
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FedEx will start testing a 1,900-pound drone for hauling packages
The 27-foot-wide aircraft features a hybrid-electric power system and weighs 1,900 pounds. Just don't expect it to land in your driveway.
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An Amazon drone crash in Oregon set a field ablaze
Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery program has been plagued by internal conflict, high turnover, and delays, Insider previously reported.
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DJI’s newest drone can fly in heavy rain — and has its own robotic dock
Folds down small for an enterprise drone, too
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Drones are getting harder to detect, but researchers may have found an unlikely solution
Drones are getting more stealthy, and detection technology is struggling to keep up. Now researchers are reporting a marked improvement in detection ranges, thanks to an unlikely source.
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Ukraine's small combat drone "The Punisher" destroys Russian supply lines
Ukraine is using a small, nimble, and re-deployable drone to carry out scores of successful missions against the Russian onslaught, Business Insider reported. Owing to their size, these drones can travel long distances without being detected and are wreaking havoc behind Russian lines.
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Drones as Big as 747s Will Fly Cargo Around the World With Low Emissions
The global supply chain is currently experiencing all kinds of glitches, from material shortages to labor shortages and beyond. Moving goods from point A to point B has become more expensive, and there’s no quick fix in sight. But a San Diego-based startup plans to meet some of the demand for air freight with an innovative solution: autonomous cargo drones as big as a Boeing 747. And customers are jumping on board.
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Chevron is buying autonomous drones for oil field monitoring
US oil major Chevron has been benefiting from drone technology for many years. Among other things, the company is known to deploy drones for leak detection, internal equipment and asset inspection, earthworks mapping, project progress monitoring, and environmental applications. And now, the energy giant is looking to add more autonomous tools to its arsenal by placing a purchase order with American Robotics.
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Recreational drones banned in United Arab Emirates after oil facility attack
Three were killed and six wounded in recent attack
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Like a drone that you sit in – but would you feel safe?
Peter Ternstrom was about nine years old when he first saw the movie, Return of the Jedi, at the cinema. The scene in which Luke and Leia take to hover-bikes on a high-speed chase through a forest left a particular impression on him. "Absolutely, that has been an important inspiration for me," says Mr Ternstrom, who co-founded Swedish firm Jetson with Tomasz Patan.
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