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Topcon debuts the Falcon 8, a rotary wing drone for mass data collection
Topcon’s Falcon 8 UAV is capable of aerial photograph as well as survey work. Contractors, surveyors and engineers are finding all kinds of new and useful applications for unmanned aerial vehicles,...
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Connecticut DOT to test drone for inspections under bridges
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) is testing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, to inspect the underside of the northbound Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London on Dec. 15....
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FAA to require online drone registration starting Dec. 21
Following the advice of recently disclosed findings by an agency task force, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced the official drone registration process for recreational and hobbyist...
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10th Day of Construction Gifts: Blade Nano QX drone for beginners to (crash...
If you’ve spent any time at all reading this site, you’re likely aware that drones are by far and away the fastest growing technology on construction sites around the country. We’ve seen one...
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Caterpillar studying how drones can enhance heavy equipment production
Caterpillar is continuing the emphasis it has placed on predictive machine analytics in the last year with a collaboration that will explore how drones can assist in the collection of that data and...
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2016 Innovations Award Winner: Vermeer Insite productivity tools
As Jon Kuyers tells it, Vermeer team members started to notice something when they visited contractors. “We’d go to a jobsite,” says Vermeer’s senior global product manager, “and our focus was...
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2016 Innovations Award Winner: Volvo CE Density Direct compaction system
Algorithms seem to rule the world now, with these programming juggernauts turning massive amounts of data into usable concepts. It’s an algorithm that makes Volvo CE’s Density Direct intelligent...
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2016 Innovations Awards: Year of the Drone headlines 3 game-changing...
In the past year, no other technology has shown more potential to impact – and improve – more parts of the construction business than unmanned aircraft, more commonly referred to as drones. There are...
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Parrot unveils fixed-wing Disco drone with autopilot and an orbiting “Loiter”...
Outside of surveying uses, the vast majority of construction applications for unmanned aircraft require multi-rotor drones like DJI’s Phantom series. The helicopter-like function of these drone models...
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AI, robotics expected to claim nearly 500,000 construction jobs by 2020
An estimated 5.1 million jobs are expected to be lost in the next five years due to advances in technology, specifically those in artificial intelligence, machine-learning, 3D printing and robotics,...
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FAA releases finalized commercial drone rules, tossing out need for special...
Photo credit: Caterpillar The Federal Aviation Administration today announced that it has finalized regulations on the commercial use of drones in U.S. airspace. The official regulations, which will...
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Drone 2.0: Kespry’s lighter, stronger drone not only flies itself, it renders...
One of the biggest reasons drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) went from a hobbyist gadget to an industry expected to generate 100,000 jobs and $82 billion for the U.S. economy over the next 10...
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Year in Review: The Biggest Construction Equipment News Stories of 2016
While everyone has their sights on ConExpo in March, it might be easy to overlook what a busy year 2016 turned out to be. Here’s an quick overview, plus a timeline, of what happened in the...
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Kespry, maker of all-in-one industrial drone platform, names new CEO
Drone maker and aerial intelligence platform Kespry has named tech industry veteran George Mathew as its next chairman and CEO. Mathew Last year, Kespry launched Drone 2.0, a complete drone solution...
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Cat investment in Airware to accelerate rollout of drone program at dealerships
In a move signaling the heavy equipment manufacturer’s intent to more fully integrate drones and the aerial data they capture into the workflows of construction jobsites and mining operations around...
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Kespry Drone 2s brings centimeter-level survey accuracy, single base station...
The new Drone 2s offers between four and six times more surveying accuracy than its predecessor the Drone 2. Drone maker and aerial intelligence platform Kespry has introduced a big update to its Drone...
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AT&T’s LTE-equipped drones look like a great way to connect remote jobsites
Though drones have already been given construction tasks such as inspections, jobsite safety monitoring, progress photos and surveying, a future industry use of unmanned aircraft could be delivering...
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Parrot Bebop-Pro 3D Modeling drone package offers contractors autonomous...
Parrot’s Bebop-Pro 3D Modeling pack allows contractors to set a flight plan from their smartphone and watch as the drone autonomously captures data and images in as little as 10 minutes. Photo: Parrot...
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How Hensel Phelps carefully deployed drones on its construction sites
A jobsite image shot by one of Hensel Phelps’s drones. Photo: Hensel Phelps Twenty seconds in, DJI’s most recent promotional video for its Matrice 200 series shows an operator in a hard hat and safety...
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Fixed-wing eBee Plus surveying drone coming to Cat dealers through...
Commercial drone technology company Airware has announced a partnership with another drone manufacturer that will add a different type of aircraft to the company’s current offerings. Airware, which...
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