ROYAL OAK - Attorney Enrico Schaefer provides another update from dronelawpro.com, his Traverse City-based law practice that specializes in technology and drone legal issues. On June 21, the FAA announcement the new drone regulations that will become effective at end of August. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles remote pilot licenses are now required. Really. The test includes
LANSING - One mid-Michigan entrepreneur wants to fill a need in the rapidly growing market for unmanned aerial vehicles by catering his products to educators and students. Mario Swaidan, a recent graduate of Michigan State University’s neuroscience program and owner of Lansing-based AerBots Inc., plans to market quadcopter drone kits, so named because they are
EAST LANSING — A group of Michigan State University engineering students is among 17 teams taking part in a national drone competition this week in Maryland. The MSU team will be competing in the 2016 Student Unmanned Air Systems event at the Webster Naval Field in Patuxent River. “We are building a fully autonomous UAV
BALTIMORE - Sales of drones—small flying machines equipped with cameras—are soaring. But new research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore their human controllers and land or, more drastically, crash. Five graduate students and their professor discovered three different ways to
TRAVERSE CITY - In early March, 2016, the FAA started issuing a new version of the Section 333 Exemption which provides for authorization to fly any approved aircraft/ drone/ UAV and provides more flexibility in flying near people who are part of the purpose of your flight operations. If you have an old version of
NEW YORK - Bought a drone, and want to fly it legally, but have no idea where to do that? A new map created by drone hobbyists and enthusiasts aims to be an atlas, laying out the legal landscape for piloting unmanned vehicles. Called simply AirMap, the project is a collaboration between Ben Marcus, who
SUNNYVALE, Ca. - An interesting photo of Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn testing a quadcopter drone at the Nissan Research Center in Silicon Valley. Dare we call it the Ghosn (pronounced Gohn) drone? When asked by MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan if the photo hinted that Nissan is working on flying cars, Nissan spokesman Rachel
TRAVERSE CITY – Attorney Enrico Schaefer has had an interest in wind-related activities for most of his life. So when Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, more commonly called drones, started to come into vogue for possible commercial uses, Traverse Legal, the law firm Schaefer co-founded, Traverse Legal, PLC, positioned itself to become a leader in practicing drone
