A Modovolo Lift Prototype (#42) on a test flight August 10, 2024 Utica, NY, August 26, 2024. Modovolo, Inc. is excited to announce the successful completion of its seed funding round in record time. “We started pitching investors on the second week of August and we had multiple offers to close out the round in…
This is a 3D image created by Aero AI’s technology called SiEGA. We’ve launched an article series with UAV Commercial News called: “Is your drone business in RTL Mode?” We’re interviewing top commercial Drone Operator businesses to learn about the challenges that they’ve had—and how they overcame those challenges—in order to give you actionable insights on how…
SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons We’ve launched an article series with UAV Commercial News called: “Is your drone business in RTL Mode?” We’re interviewing top commercial Drone Operator businesses to learn about the challenges that they’ve had—and how they overcame those challenges—in order to give you actionable insights on how to take your drone business…
We’re big fans of creating crazy click-bait titles – and the title for this post is no exception. Sure, bacon has nothing to do with drones whatsoever but at least you know that this wasn’t written by ChatGPT. Yet perhaps this title isn’t as crazy or click-bait-y as it first appears. First, bacon is tasty.…
If you’re like me, you often think about skinny drone propellers. Things like: All of these are important and compelling questions for sure, but let’s get serious here with some science and math…and Victorians. And that means we need to first talk about the “Reynolds Number” – which has nothing to do with aluminum foil,…
Article Series: The Future of Data and Drones: Lessons from the worlds of big data, enterprise software, and private equity. What will the world of drones and data look like in the next 10 years? This is a series of articles featured in UAV Commercial News exploring that question. We’ll look at how other industries…
Industries have very predictable life cycles. It starts with the “Pioneer Stage”: Dozens (if not hundreds) of manufacturers all try and promote different designs of a new product category. Then the “Adoption Stage”: The market starts selecting the dominant designs and features and there is a refinement of those designs and features. Next, the “Consolidation…
The Ancient Romans. Over several centuries they went from a small collection of villages along the banks of the River Tiber to conquering all of the Mediterranean basin. For sure many a doctoral dissertation has been written on how and why that happened. But I think all of those well-heeled scholarly types have all missed…
We have co-authored this article with DroneBlog to explore Part 107, the key FAA regulation for flying over people. Most drones can’t comply with Part 107 but, because of the Modovolo Lift’s bicycle-wheel-inspired design, this isn’t an issue for drone operators who use the Lift. Check out the article here.
Article Series: The Future of Data and Drones: Lessons from the worlds of big data, enterprise software, and private equity. What will the world of drones and data look like in the next 10 years? This is a series of articles featured in UAV Commercial News exploring that question. We’ll look at how other industries…