Drone News: WY Trespass Laws, Insta360 Sphere, Walmart Delivery, Skydio Symforce

This week in drone news: Wyoming looking to create a drone trespass law, Insta360 sphere for the Mavic Air 2 and the Air 2S, Walmart expanding their drone delivery, and Skydio Symforce changes to open source.

A Legislative committee in Wyoming voted to continue work on legislation that would address trespass issues relating to drone flights

“Simply entering the airspace above somebody else’s land is a trespass, we’re saying that’s a criminal trespass in the bill, maybe that’s a misdemeanor?” said Olsen. “And maybe your felony occurs when you do these other activities including surveillance, what type of surveillance is it?”

https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-government/2022-05-24/lawmakers-consider-adding-drones-to-trespass-law

Insta360 has released a new camera for the Mavic air 2 and the Air 2S

This camera is a 360 cam and renders the drone invisible!

This camera straps onto the drone allowing you to fly and get two shots at the same time. One 360 and one of what the drone sees!

See video

https://dronexl.co/2022/05/25/insta360-sphere-dji-mavic-air-2-2s-drones/

Walmart is expanding their drone delivery platform to six major cities!

Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, Dallas, Salt Lake, Richmond

Deliveries in 30 minutes or less

Walmart and DroneUp hope to expand up to 34 sites this year.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/24/walmart-drone-delivery-droneup-packages-doorstep-home

Skydio Symforce is a framework for writing algorithms to control robots.

The company has released symforce as an open-source project to accelerate the robotics and UAS industries

“It’s an incredible tool that allows our team to quickly progress from rapid prototyping to the type of highly-optimized runtime code that powers our drones,” Skydio says in a press release. “SymForce is the result of five years of development by Skydio’s autonomy team in an environment where performance and code maintainability are crucial. We think the challenges it solves are common and that SymForce can help robotics engineers build faster, the same way that PyTorch and TensorFlow accelerated the deep learning ecosystem.”

https://dronexl.co/2022/05/25/skydio-symforce-framework/