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2019–2020 article archive

The 65 articles published on Mundo Drone between 2019 and 2020, at their original address. Specifications and regulations may have changed since then.

10 October 2020
Drone Photo Awards 2020: these are 20 of the best images made from a drone according to this contest

We really like the footage and the photography that is created with drones, a lot. Así que viendo que ya se han sabido los ganadores del Drone Photo Awards 2020 no hemos podido resistirnos a compartirlas y a seguir maravillándonos por lo que se…
22 September 2020
Aerocameras explains how to fly drones in controlled aerial spaces

With current regulations, in Spain it is possible to fly drones in controlled air spaces. In this article we will explain from Aerocamaras everything you have to know and do to achieve it. Para ello, empezaremos explicando de…
1 September 2020
US authorizes Amazon to use drones to deliver products

Amazon dijo el lunes que la Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) de Estados Unidos le emitió la autorización para utilizar drones en la entrega de productos . La autorización demuestra "la confianza en las operaciones y procedimientos…
1 September 2020
How Fires Fight With Drones

More and more countries are using drones to fight fires. Su sencillez de despliegue y su alta efectividad los convierten en una herramienta muy atractiva en la lucha contra las llamas. Además, la evolución tecnológica, acompañada de la…
30 August 2020
Identify Roman camps, now drones

Si las tachuelas de las sandalias o ciertos elementos metálicos eran hasta hace poco los escasos vestigios que permitían identificar campamentos militares romanos que colonizaron la península ibérica, ahora los satélites y los drones…
28 July 2020
Airial Robotics aims to change the world market for commercial drones with a new type of UAV

La empresa Airial Robotics, con sede en Hamburgo (Alemania) y con sucursales en Hungría y el Reino Unido, ha presentado un innovador sistema de transporte de vehículos aéreos no tripulados que redefine las posibilidades de las aplicaciones…
27 June 2020
Drone-watched beaches: what about privacy?

The use of increasingly autonomous drones and equipped with AI-based systems is presented as the solution to the control of capacity on Spanish beaches, but it poses new challenges: how to respect the right to privacy of people?…
26 June 2020
Partnership Agreement between Aerocameras – Mundo Drone

Aerocámaras , la prestigiosa empresa dedicada profesionalemente a todos los ámbitos relacionados con el mundo de los drones y Mundo Drone han acordado un marco de colaboración informativo en el que ambas empresas puedan compartir sus…
8 June 2020
Firefighters create a drone unit that will have 18 pilots for risk situations

The Corps already has two of these flight equipments and four qualified persons. They will assist in the search for missing persons, the extinction of fires or the sanitation of buildings.
3 June 2020
The 5G will take the drones to a new level

The use of 5G networks to operate unmanned ships will allow flights beyond the line of view as well as drones to coexist at low altitudes in the same airspace.
19 May 2020
With drones: this is the novel reforestation process of native forests in Canada

The Canadian start-up Flash Forest set itself an ambitious goal to reforest the planet: to reach the 1 billion trees planted by 2028 to absorb more carbon dioxide than human activity...
14 May 2020
Reform the master's degree of drones to boost this strategic sector

TRAINING. The Polytechnic School of Engineering (EPSE) of the USC campus in Lugo advances in the reformulation of the Master's Degree in Operations and Engineering of Unpopulated Air Systems, an inter-university postgraduate course taught together with...
11 May 2020
Uvigo develops a method of disinfection with drones

Unmanned aerial systems will disperse disinfectant fluids to stop the virus
7 May 2020
The use of drones as a successful solution in the Coronavirus crisis

The widespread use of drones has become protagonists in the fight against the global Coronavirus pandemic, as well as easy to implement that many security forces in the world already use.
7 May 2020
DJI announces the launch of the Matrice 300 RTK, the new state-of-the-art industrial drone and its first series of hybrid cameras

The new Matrice 300 RTK and the Zenmuse H20 series provide aerial intelligence to a new generation of business actions characterized by the use of AI and digitization techniques
4 May 2020
Zaragoza participates in European drone use projects in urban environments

Zaragoza participates in two European consortia to explore in a pioneering way the possibilities of drone use in urban environments in aspects such as the transport of goods and people or the control of the use of space...
30 April 2020
ODS3. UPS Launches or Delivery Service by Drones for Mediacaments

UPS, through its subsidiary UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF), and pharmaceutical company CVS Health Corporation, have announced that they will use drones for the delivery of prescription drugs from a CVS pharmacy in Florida to The Villages, the community of...
28 April 2020
DJI Mavic Air 2: And really leveled up!

DJI Mavic Air 2's release slogan is: "Get up the level."...and what if it has! A few days ago we presented the comparison between the 2019 and 2020 models of Xiaomi FIMI X8 SE 2020, and at the end of the comparison...
27 April 2020
More Mavic Air 2 leaks within hours of launch

Not too many years ago, the release of a product that generated a lot of excitement in the public (the first Apple events come to mind, for example...) were kept secret until the very moment of its release, so...
23 April 2020
300 drones to honor toilets in China

With 11 new confirmed cases, 7 of them local, China is returning to normal long-awaited that the country does not suffer a resurgence of new contagions. Fundamental in this crisis all health personnel, among them a medical team that...
20 April 2020
Drones and state-of-the-art technology: salvation for a 'distance agriculture'

In these times of staying at home, some sectors have been described as essential: sanitation, security, supply, cleaning... all these professions behind our basic needs. As they grow...
18 April 2020
They will monitor the air quality of Cúcuta (Colombia) with drones

After the return of poor air quality to Cúcuta, which became evident yesterday from early morning hours, the local environmental authority has taken several steps to know the reasons for what is happening.
16 April 2020
As human drones: Faroe Islands invent remote tourism

The impossibility of traveling sharpens the ingenuity. It is a fact that is demonstrated through the quantity and variety of proposals that lead us to sail on virtual cruises, to visit museums, to tour landscapes in view of bird or...
15 April 2020
Next DJI release on 04/28/2020

This is the evocative cover of the DJI website right now, very suggestive and aesthetically reminiscent of Apple’s before any release of a new product. The event will probably be the launch of a new product...
14 April 2020
This is the drone equipped with ultraviolet light that disinfects rooms and combats the coronavirus

In order to facilitate the work of disinfection and protect the operators, various technological companies began to develop various proposals to automate the task of cleaning in times of pandemic . In this context, the...
13 April 2020
What is a drone used for? This is what companies and authorities use it for.

We know what a drone is and that it is already common to use them in different areas although the most common is to find them in all kinds of events or artistic recordings or advertising. But this is not the only use that companies give to it and...
12 April 2020
Women's Drones: This is the fashion parades in Saudi Arabia during Ramadan

Who needs models when you have drones? A controversial video of a fashion show in a luxurious hotel in Saudi Arabia has gone viral in the nets. Dolce & Gabbana’s costumes and accessories run along the catwalk shaking like...
11 April 2020
Telde local police are watching you with drones.

In its struggle for everyone to stay in their homes and only leave for essential reasons, the consistory has also destined for this purpose its unit of drones , with which you can observe and record a greater territory and allows...
10 April 2020
Google subsidiary drones that distribute medicines and food in times of coronavirus lead several landings in Virginia

Drones with medicines and food are finally landing at American residences as part of the company’s Google-associated project, Alphabet.
9 April 2020
Drones are indispensable for humanitarian aid

The implementation of drones in different projects is a reality that adapts quickly to different industries around the world. From the use of drones for search and rescue purposes or accounting of endangered species of...
8 April 2020
Drones against the getaway

They go beyond higher water consumption during these days, visits to the doctor of patients who are not registered in the village and, above all, shopping in shops and supermarkets. In the village they all know, “and we know that they have...
7 April 2020
Flight of drones, new sport mode to which UPCT is added

Motorcycling, rallying, Formula One... all of them sports associated with driving vehicles, which now have to be added to the drone flight. They are usually called 'drone races' and the special thing about it is that vehicles are used...
6 April 2020
Drones, 3D printing or teleworking: technologies reinforced by coronavirus

The coronavirus outbreak that initially seemed to affect only China has become a pandemic that already accumulates hundreds of thousands of infected in countries around the globe. All of this without forgetting that one third of the world’s...
5 April 2020
Spain will use drones to disinfect its streets

To avoid counteracting the coronavirus in which Spain is one of the most infected countries in the world Spain registering more 11,881 dead and more than 124,000 infected so far, so prevention measures will be taken in Spain.
4 April 2020
Spain, a pioneer country in the use of drones for the disinfection of the coronavirus

The technology is playing an important role in the fight against Covid-19 coronavirus. Digital services, fast tests, 3D printers and, of course, drones. The Military Emergency Unit (UME) has started to use in a...
3 April 2020
These are the drones used by the UME to disinfect in quarantine.

The vast majority of the inhabitants of Spain have been locked up in their homes since March 13th. A preventive quarantine that is intended to put a stop to the outbreak of coronavirus that hits our country and nations with force...
2 April 2020
Drones to detect people who are sick with the coronavirus

Work is done to create a type of drone (air bot) to observe people and detect if any have symptoms of pandemic disease COVID-19 . Drones of this class use special algorithms with which they recognize...
1 April 2020
Drones to control confinement in Murcia

More resources to detect who are the neighbors who fail to comply with the imposed preventive confinement to help stop the expansion of the coronavirus . Thus, the Murcia Local Police reinforce with drones their detection tools...
31 March 2020
UAV Navigation and Abionica Solutions will work together on drone certification

UAV Navigation , a leading Spanish company in flight control systems solutions for UAVs, has signed with Abionica Solutions - an expert in the areas of systems engineering, avionics systems and UAVs certification - an agreement of...
30 March 2020
Dubai protects itself from coronaviruses with drones that disinfect the city

The coronavirus is paralyzing virtually everyone. It depends on the measures of the country, the streets are becoming increasingly empty and labor activity is reduced to essential services. Any measures to combat the pandemic...
30 March 2020
10 books to fly drones and overcome confinement

With the Covid-19 crisis and the establishment of the State of Alarm, reading is one of the escape routes to overcome confinement. Unmanned aerial vehicles, most commonly known as drones, along with Big Data, are...
29 March 2020
Valencia Local Police uses their drones to fine people who were on El Saler beach

It was already announced on March 18. Valencia’s local police would use their drones to strengthen security in the city and comply with the rules set out in the state of alarm to stop the expansion of the coronavirus....
28 March 2020
Drones capable of detecting Covid-19 from the air and in crowds

Researchers at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, are working on the development of technologies capable of detecting potential cases of Covid-19 in people and from the air, using drones.
27 March 2020
UME conducts drone tests for disinfection of large areas

The Emergency Military Unit continues its work, one more day in the joint struggle within Operation Balmis against COVID-19.
27 March 2020
EHang 184, the autonomous and electric flying taxi drone that already carries passengers

We have seen many videos of flying taxis, but almost all of them are simple concepts, either computer-recreated animations, or have flown without passengers. EHang 184 was the first flying taxi that was introduced already a couple of years ago.
26 March 2020
Drones, robots and applications: technologies at the service of the fight against coronavirus

The technology, the health service. Ever since the cases of Covid-19 coronavirus infected have skyrocketed, citizens’ initiatives to turn to the fight against the pandemic that threatens a deep...
25 March 2020
This is how futuristic drones will use UPS to deliver packages: take off vertically and fly planning

Using drones to deliver packages is an idea that some logistics companies have been pursuing for years. Different ideas have emerged in recent times and there are already those who use them to deliver medicines for example. ...
24 March 2020
Sadeco begins using drones for disinfection of wide avenues and squares

It will also be used in indoor enclosed spaces as sports pavilions and markets In the public road strengthens the work of surface equipment
24 March 2020
With drones, Italy will monitor population to control coronavirus

The Italian civil aviation (Enac) authorized this Monday the use of drones by the police to monitor the displacements of the population, forced to stay at home to prevent the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus.
21 March 2020
Drones, robots or 5G thermometers: the technology against coronavirus

Technology is not only helping us to overcome the tedium of home confinement. Outside the four walls that have been around us for days, there are all kinds of devices that fight the coronavirus day by day. Although it is...
19 March 2020
Drones vs COVID-19; China has proven its effectiveness

Months after the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) started in China until its spread around the world, various companies have deployed robots and drones to help combat it, providing services and attention to the...
18 March 2020
The drones of the local police will fly over Valencia to control the compliance of the state of alarm by the coronavirus

The local police of Valencia will begin to use their drones to strengthen the security in the city and the compliance with the norms contemplated in the state of alarm to stop the expansion of the coronavirus, according to this...
16 March 2020
Drones with speakers in Madrid to urge people to go home and protect themselves from the coronavirus

The Municipal Police of Madrid has used on Saturday drones equipped with loudspeakers to urge citizens to stick to their stuff to prevent new contagions of coronavirus.
10 March 2020
Local Police deploy their drone unit to monitor the "mascletades"

The purpose of aircraft, which can only be piloted by expert agents, is to evacuate, sell illegally or commit crimes.
10 March 2020
Custom-made drones

Jaime Pereira’s landing in the drone business was not out of vocation, but out of necessity. This publicist who produced promotional videos of luxury housing with a helicopter tried in 2012 the first drones as a...
9 March 2020
DGT drones fly over the roads of Asturias during the weekend

During this weekend, the provincial head of Traffic of Asturias, in collaboration with the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard expands the surveillance on the roads with the presence of two drones that will overfly the...
8 March 2020
Civil Guard will monitor drones, which have doubled

The details of how many they will be, when they will enter the operational phase and how their daily work will be carried out, are still to be determined, but a group of officers of the Civil Guard of Burgos already knows that it will become the first...
5 March 2020
A Spanish Hybrid Dron Hits World Flight Autonomy Record

The multirotor hybrid (HYBRiX) of the startup Quaternium has achieved a new world record of autonomy with an eight-hour and ten-minute flight, taking off at 8:52 a.m. in Valencia and landing at 5:02 p.m....
22 February 2020
This Israeli laser burns drones in mid-flight and fits in an SUV

Rafael, the Israeli defense company, has presented a mobile system that eliminates the threat of drones in protected areas
19 February 2020
First flight of an acrobatic drone, capable of making loops and corkscrew with a passenger on board

For the first time in the world, a coaxial multicopter drone with 12 rotors has been 'tripulated' performing extreme acrobatic maneuvers with a passenger on board. The remote control is maintained from the ground by a racing driver from...
8 February 2020
The drone incident in Barajas comes out 'blind spots' of the interception system in that area

Every day in Madrid there are twenty incidents with these devices, whose flight in the capital is generally prohibited, and the majority of them are punished.
4 February 2020
A drone forces to close Madrid-Barajas Airport for an hour and a half

Police are looking for the operator of the device that has forced 26 flights to be diverted
3 February 2020
Drones at Barajas Airport: Why They Can Be a Danger

The presence of drones at Barajas airport has forced the airspace to close, and those responsible may face heavy fines.
2 January 2020
Drones replace pyrotechnics at Shanghai's end-of-year party

2,000 aircraft flew in formation to 'draw' with lights figures and phrases
1 October 2019
Acrobatics with a drone at 140 km/h and at the roofs of Castejón de Monegros

An aficionado of these devices, Noel Bejarano, has recorded spectacular images of this small Monegrine town that have gone viral among its neighbors.