Commercial Drones FM Podcast

Updated episode format! The drone industry report for Q2 2018, brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. Get briefed on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter …

 Drone-based inspections are rocketing in popularity. Businesses are employing drones en masse to help analyze the health of their assets. As onboard sensors and hardware improve, the software that …

Hear host Ian Smith answer questions about drones on a podcast instead of always being the one asking them. This week’s episode of CDFM is a syndication of Udacity’s, The …

Why is Ford, a legacy automobile company, building drones? Adi Singh, Principal Scientist for UAV Systems at Ford’s Silicon Valley office, explains all the ways that Ford is researching and …

Nightingale Security is a robotic aerial security company – not a traditional drone company. But they do make robotic aerial security platforms (drones) and fleet management software that their clients …

Skydio is a very special drone company with a thought-provoking inaugural product. R1, the company’s first drone, costs $2,499, is fully autonomous, and it’s marketed mainly to hobbyists. So why …

The drone industry report for Q1 2018, brought to you by Commercial Drones FM. Get briefed on the most important and newsworthy happenings from the previous quarter in the drone …

Today, March 28th, 2018, DJI have announced the availability and launch of their Payload SDK. This is important news for the drone industry since it now means that different sensors, …

Michael Cohen is CEO of Industrial SkyWorks, a Toronto-based drone inspection software and services company. Michael teaches Ian about the “just drone” problem, where if you provide industrial inspection services …

What is a drone in a box and why is it important? A drone-in-a-box is essentially a drone that lives inside of a box (stay with me here) and the …