Drones

• [New] Driverless cars will be operational on Irish roads by 2030, while almost half say drones will be used to deliver packages and food - changes that will both reduce the need for combustion vehicles on Irish roads.
• [New] AFRL is running a separate project, dubbed R2-D2, to develop an autonomous drone using AI-driven systems that is expected to square off against a human pilot in a fighter jet by 2024.
• [New] Engineering company Boeing has developed a high-energy beam that locates and disables small drones from several miles away: It is said to use infrared cameras that can work in low visibility, such as fog.
• [New] The transition to a sixth generation architecture that will support data links to drones and F-35 aircraft - and adopt new battlefield technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning applications-under new contracts worth £6 billion, has already begun.
• [New] The drone package delivery market will hit $2.1 billion in 2023 and grow to $27.4 billion by 2030.
• [New] More than 80,000 surveillance drones and almost 2,000 attack drones will be purchased around the world in the next 10 years.
• The FAA is expected to release a fine rule on remote ID before the end of the year.
• Starting in 2022, the FAA's Remote ID requirement will necessitate every drone sold in the U.S. that weighs more than 0.55 pounds to come with a way to broadcast its location and identification to local authorities or a digital license plate for drones.
• Japan's drone sensor market is expected to witness rapid growth, in terms of technology and procurement.
• The UK government said the new stop and search powers would apply to people suspected of using drones maliciously nears airports.
• Over the next five years the Counter UAV market will register a 18.7%% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach $6327.8 million by 2025, from $3190.4 million in 2019.
• In 2019, the civil UAV market had a global volume of about USD 5.5 billion and the market for production and services applications is forecasted to grow at around 11% per annum over the next five to six years, largely driven by the infrastructure sector.
• The use of drone technology for inspecting offshore oil and gas assets is predicted to grow by a further 60% over the next five years.
• The Vanguard initiatives objective is to accelerate the time it takes to go froThe USAF has stated that it wants Skyborg to be a program of record and drones to be fielded and operationally capable by 2023.
• A recent report from Fortune Business Insights predicts the global agricultural drone market to reach $3.7 billion in value by 2027, at a compound annual growth rate of over 18%.
• Consumers are expecting to further embrace new technologies by 2030: 80% say they expect delivery by drone, 81% expect to engage with chatbots, and 78% expect to use an augmented, virtual, or mixed reality app to see how a product will look.
• Adoption of Drone / UAV is increasing in India and it is projected that the value of industry and market would be around US$ 885.7 million, while the global market size will touch US$ 21.47 billion by 2021.
• Led by countries such as Australia, India, and South Korea, the UAV market in Asia-Pacific is forecast to reach US$ 1.1 Billion by the year 2027, while Latin America will expand at a 13.8% CAGR through the analysis period.
• Security firms have found a way of using interceptor drones that can lock onto a target, release a net and disable it in mid-air.
• Drone activity becomes both terror-related and a deliberate act of disruption, using industrial specification drones.
• The global market for artificial intelligence for agriculture is expected to surpass $2 billion by 2024.
• The global total addressable market for counter-drone products is estimated to be worth US$ 48 billion (around A$ 66 billion) by 2030.

Last updated: 24 January 2021