Drone News Roundup: FPV Dive Down South Korea’s Tallest Building, Tour of Bolivia with the DJI Lito X1, and More!

This week we’re covering a high-octane FPV dive down the tallest building in South Korea.

We’re also covering cinematic footage from Bolivia shot on the DJI Lito X1, turning 360 footage from the Antigravity A1 into 3D video, a new drone landing system for ships at sea, and NASA-backed organ delivery by drone.

Now on to the links!

FPV Dive Down South Korea’s Tallest Building

We’ve shared a lot of Joshu Turner’s cinematic FPV drone videos over the years. But this one is more dramatic. In this short, single-shot video, Turner flies over 1,800 feet up to the top of Lotte World Tower in Seoul—the tallest building in South Korea. Then he dives down it. The footage is fast-paced, fun, and a little dizzying. Take a look if you’re in need of a shot of adrenaline today.

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DJI Lito X1 Cinematic Drone Tour of Bolivia

YouTuber Willy Foxx traveled through Bolivia on a motorcycle recently, documenting the journey with DJI’s new Lito X1. The video captures the country’s varied terrain, including salt flats, mountain roads, lakes, and high-altitude landscapes. The video does a good job showing what DJI’s newest sub-250 gram drone can do in wide-open environments, especially where long tracking shots and smooth camera movement help emphasize the scale of the terrain.

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Turning 360 Drone Footage into 3D Video

Antigravity recently shared this demo for Project ETERNAL, a project focused on turning 360 drone footage into immersive 3D archives of historic places. The process uses footage from the A1 360 drone, converting it into 3D models with Gaussian Splatting. The 3D reconstruction technique lets you turn 360 drone footage into a navigable scene with depth and perspective. According to Antigravity, the goal of Project ETERNAL is to preserve “the places that matter” by capturing them from above and making them viewable later as spatial 3D environments, preserving them in digital form for future generations.

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How Do You Land a Drone on a Moving Ship? Like This

WaiV Robotics is working on a system designed to help drones land safely on moving ships, which is one of the more difficult challenges in maritime drone operations. The company’s platform uses a gyro-stabilized landing pad, AI-driven predictive software, and what it calls a “catch-lock-release” mechanism to recover drones while vessels pitch and roll at sea. According to WaiV Robotics, the system is designed to work with VTOL drones without requiring hardware modifications to the aircraft itself—watch the video to see how it works.

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NASA Partners with Nonprofit to Deliver Organs by Drone

NASA has partnered with the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to explore using drones for organ delivery, where even small delays can affect whether a transplant succeeds. The partnership is focused on transporting kidneys and other organs between hospitals faster and more directly, potentially avoiding traffic and other ground transportation bottlenecks during the narrow window when organs remain viable. The project is being led through NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility work in partnership with teams in Richmond, Virginia, with researchers testing whether drones could eventually support time-critical medical deliveries in both urban and rural areas.

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