At the industry's main professional drone event, InterDrone (Las Vegas, USA, Sept. 5-7, 2018), Parrot, the leading European drone group, presented two new professional drone platforms: senseFly eBee X and Parrot ANAFI Work. Designed by teams of engineers in Paris and Switzerland, brought together within Parrot Business Solutions, the two new professional drone platforms have further strengthened the Group's range of solutions for the business market. Both complementary and differentiating, the eBee X and ANAFI Work provide precision data to work more efficiently, reduce professional risks and costs, and make decisions based on detailed precision information. Far more than just a drone, eBee X is a solution designed to optimize operator efficiency and minimize risk when collecting data. Its High-Precision on Demand (RTK/PPK) feature delivers absolute accuracy of down to 3 cm (1.2 in), without ground control points.

SenseFly collaborated with Trimble to integrate the drone solutions and make the work easier and efficient. SenseFly is a producer of professional drone solution and recently launched eMotion 3.5 software. "Making work easier and more efficient for geospatial professionals is the goal that drives every solution we develop," says Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Co-founder and CEO of SenseFly. They also stated that they are excited for the collaboration with Trimble for the solution integration. "Enhancements such as new eMotion-to-Trimble Business Centre workflow do exactly that, ensuring that the transition from data collection to acting upon this data is as seamless as possible," stated SenseFly.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your organic Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Parrot hasn't shown off anything new in like... a week... So it's jolly well time that they entertain us with some new products: I'm so, so happy that smartphone control has been ditched for an honest RC controller.

It wouldn't be CES without a new drone from Parrot. Not that we're complaining: Parrot makes awesome drones. You can probably guess what's new about the Disco, though: a pronounced lack of rotors and the addition of a symmetrical pair of passive lifting surfaces. In other words, it's got wings. As soon as we saw this thing, we were like, "Oh, that looks familiar!"