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Dstl overcome challenges of interoperability with new software

UK defence research organisation Dstl has developed the Single Information Environment (SInfoE) architecture to solve military interoperability challenges, enabling rapid data sharing across radar, satellites, drones, and AI systems. The architecture was successfully demonstrated in July 2024 during the ARCHERON trial, where Royal Navy, Army, and RAF systems were integrated with industry drones, reducing integration time from months to hours while maintaining NATO compatibility standards.

sUAS News1/18/2026

Walmart and Wing Launch Major Drone Delivery Expansion from Houston

Walmart and Wing announced a major expansion of their drone delivery partnership, launching operations from five Walmart locations in the Houston area as part of a plan to add 150 store locations across the southern U.S. The autonomous delivery drones use AI-powered route planning and obstacle avoidance technology, with the partnership already completing hundreds of thousands of missions and approximately 1,000 daily deliveries in existing Dallas/Fort Worth and Atlanta markets.

Drone Life1/16/2026

There's Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security's New Drone Video That We're Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

The Department of Homeland Security posted a promotional video for its new drone program highlighting American air superiority, but the footage inadvertently revealed DHS agents using DJI remote controllers—Chinese-made drones that the Trump administration has officially banned. The embarrassing oversight exposes a contradiction between the government's stated anti-China drone policy and its actual operational practices for homeland security operations.

Futurism1/15/2026

Unifly Completes FAA-Led Detect-and-Avoid Safety Standards Project

Unifly, a Terra Drones subsidiary, has completed FAA-led validation of Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) safety standards for commercial drone operations through the ASSURE A68 project. The project demonstrated how Unifly's UAS Traffic Management (UTM) platform can support collision avoidance capabilities and establish safety thresholds for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations, providing validated technical specifications to inform future regulatory frameworks for autonomous aircraft.

Drone Life1/15/2026

Meteodrones Provide New Data to National Weather Service

Meteomatics has partnered with NOAA's National Mesonet Program to integrate autonomous weather drone data into U.S. National Weather Service forecasts for the first time, collecting atmospheric measurements between 50 and 20,000 feet to fill critical data gaps in the lower atmosphere. A pilot program running from February through April 2026 will deploy Meteodrones from Oklahoma to provide high-resolution temperature, humidity, and wind data to improve forecast accuracy for severe weather, fog, and precipitation events.

Drone Life1/15/2026

One image is all robots need to find their way

Researchers at Skoltech have developed SwarmDiffusion, a lightweight generative AI model that enables robots to navigate unknown environments using only a single image, eliminating the need for traditional mapping and heavy path planning algorithms. The diffusion-based approach can generalize across different robot platforms (drones, quadrupeds, wheeled robots) with minimal platform-specific training data, representing a significant advancement in autonomous navigation using modern AI techniques.

Phys.org Robotics1/8/2026

FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites to Advance Drone Integration

The FAA has announced two new UAS Test Sites in Oklahoma and Indiana, marking the first federal drone test ranges added in nearly a decade. These sites will advance research on Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations, autonomous systems, and advanced air mobility technologies, with testing focused on cargo delivery, infrastructure inspection, and emergency response applications.

Drone Life1/14/2026

Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events

By Dronelife Features Editor Jim Magill (Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories on efforts to establish new counter-UAS protocols in the U.S. to protect high-profile sporting events and critical infrastructure from the potential threats posed by drones flown by careless or hostile actors. The first installment examined a government push […] The post Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events appeared first on DRONELIFE.

Drone Life1/14/2026

Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires

University of Maryland's Crossfire team is competing in an XPrize competition to develop autonomous drones that can rapidly detect and suppress wildfires, with the final round scheduled for June 2026 offering a $3.5 million prize. The competition challenges teams to locate and extinguish fires within 1,000 square kilometers of challenging terrain in under 10 minutes, representing a significant advancement in wildfire response technology. The initiative emerged from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire in California and aims to provide firefighting agencies with powerful new autonomous tools.

IEEE Spectrum Robotics12/24/2025

This Khosla-backed startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch

Point One Navigation, a San Francisco-based startup, raised $35 million in Series C funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its valuation to $230 million. The company has developed precise location technology using augmented GNSS, computer vision, and sensor fusion that achieves centimeter-level accuracy for autonomous vehicles, robotics, drones, and agricultural equipment, with over 150,000 vehicles already deployed and tenfold growth in manufacturer adoption over the past year.

TechCrunch Robotics11/20/2025

Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy-Lift Drones

Results for "Drones"

Dstl overcome challenges of interoperability with new software

Walmart and Wing Launch Major Drone Delivery Expansion from Houston

There's Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security's New Drone Video That We're Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Unifly Completes FAA-Led Detect-and-Avoid Safety Standards Project

Meteodrones Provide New Data to National Weather Service

One image is all robots need to find their way

FAA Adds Two New UAS Test Sites to Advance Drone Integration

Kansas, Missouri Funding Counter-UAS at World Cup Events

Drones Compete to Spot and Extinguish Brushfires

This Khosla-backed startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch

Video Friday: DARPA Challenge Focuses on Heavy-Lift Drones

Drones and Droids: a co-operative strategy game

Robot Talk Episode 122 - Bio-inspired flying robots, with Jane Pauline Ramos Ramirez

Robotics Institute Developing Drones To Fight Wildfires

How Margarita Chli is using drones to go where people can’t