Monday, March 18th, 2019
SAN DIEGO – Last night at the Aviation Week Network’s 62nd Annual Laureate Awards in Washington, DC, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and its teammates NASA, the FAA and Honeywell were honored for best achievement of 2018 in the category of Commercial Aviation-Unmanned Systems. The team was recognized for conducting the first FAA-approved, no
Monday, March 18th, 2019
SHENZHEN, China – RoboSense http://www.robosense.ai, a leader in LiDAR perception technology solutions and CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree, announced today that it has provided cold-resistant all-weather LiDAR for the world’s first autonomous driving shuttle bus for all weather conditions — GACHA. GACHA is equipped with RoboSense’s advanced cold-resistant 16-beam mechanical LiDAR environment perception system to operate vehicles
Monday, March 18th, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance), a trade association representing 12 automakers, honored David Hall, chief executive officer and founder of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., as an Autos2050® award winner. Hall was selected in the award’s Ingenuity category, which pays tribute to executives for demonstrating exceptional creativity and uniqueness. The Auto Alliance recognized
Friday, March 15th, 2019
LAKE MARY, Fla. – FARO® (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for public safety forensics, announces the availability of the FARO Zone 3D 2019 software platform (https://www.faro.com/products/public-safety-forensics/faro-zone-3d/). The FARO Zone 3D platform is specifically designed to enable investigators and security professionals to enhance the quality of site and evidence
Friday, March 15th, 2019
CORAL GABLES, Fla.- A new online tool, launched yesterday by the University of Miami with support from Citi, reveals roughly 500 million square feet – roughly the size of Manhattan – of underutilized, publicly owned land in Miami-Dade potentially suitable for the development of affordable housing. The new tool, called Land Access for Neighborhood Development
Friday, March 15th, 2019
HOUSTON and CHICAGO – The City of Houston Housing and Community Development Department, along with data science firm Civis Analytics, today released a report detailing the Harvey Data Project, a new, data-based approach for a smarter, more accurate and equitable disaster recovery. After Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the City of Houston recognized that Houston needed a more
Friday, March 15th, 2019
PLANO, Texas – Comprehensive Communication Services (CCS), a company created after Hurricane Katrina with the sole focus of providing mobile communication platforms for First Responders during disasters, and Fortress UAV, a leading provider of drone managed services including repair, preventative maintenance and support for clients, with a focus on public safety, have partnered to provide a
Friday, March 15th, 2019
TOKYO – Terra Drone Corporation (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO Toru Tokushige), the world’s leading provider of industrial drone solutions, concluded its maiden global summit in early March with a focus on developing the roadmap for a universal drone solutions platform. The three-day summit was attended by the top executives of Terra Drone group companies from over
Friday, March 15th, 2019
“With version 19.3, our 3D Mapping portfolio again takes a huge leap forward”, says Peter Bonne, CEO of Orbit GT. “This new release has much more to offer than you would think at first look. Improvements in every product, and quite some eye-catchers as well. Available for download today ! ” Here are a few
Friday, March 15th, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas – CesiumAstro, Inc., pioneer of “out-of-the-box” high-performance multi-beam active phased array communication systems for space and airborne platforms, has announced the closing of a $12.4 million Series A funding round led by Airbus Ventures. Additional investors in the round include Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton Venture Fund, Lavrock Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, and Analog Devices