January 6, 2022 – Weekly News, Highlights from CES 2022, Top Questions, and upcoming content preview.
WEEKLY NEWS LINKS
- Large Order of Agricultural drones: https://www.wionews.com/india-news/this-indian-firm-to-deliver-8000-agro-mapping-and-inspection-drones-to-uae-malaysia-and-panama-441667
- Drones for Safety. Another sight of the times in the drone industry. Drone Defence in the UK, Drones with thermal and RGB cameras and a spotlight. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10362349/Plan-DRONES-spotlight-thermal-camera-protect-women-walking-night.html
- Firefighting drones: Time to get on the scene and initial assessment https://www.commercialdroneprofessional.com/drones-the-future-of-fighting-wildfires/
- Drone Racing League to crown its champion tonight in Las Vegas. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/05/drone-racing-league-to-crown-its-champion-tonight/
- Everdrone’s Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery (EMADE) launched a defibrillator drone. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868777/everdrone-drone-defibrillator-health-tech-sweden
- Air Seed Technologies (an Australian Company) released a drone that can plant 40,000 trees per day per drone. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/these-seed-drones-can-plant-40-000-trees-a-day/fa6b38a1-c466-4715-96ee-9d03d0372f7f
CES 2022 HIGHLIGHTS
- Hydrogen Fueled 5G Drones – https://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/17600/hydrogen-fuel-cell-drones-gain-traction-at-ces-2022
- Skydio 2+ Launched – https://www.skydio.com/skydio-2-plus
- Air Neo Selfie Drone – https://www.ces.tech/Innovation-Awards/Honorees/2022/Honorees/A/AIR-NEO.aspx
- Autel Nano starting to show up in stores – https://www.autelrobotics.com/productdetail/24.html
- XDynamics Evolve 2 – Another pro drone option? – https://store.xdynamics.com/product/evolve2/
- Sony AirPeak discussion – https://square.sony.com/ces2022/airpeak/
THIS WEEK’S TOP QUESTIONS
- Basic and then Advanced?
- Flight Reviews Indoors
UPCOMING WQA Episode Preview
Discussion on Recency!