The US Military Is Developing a Drone That Can Fly For a Week Straight
While America’s most expensive surveillance drone, the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, can stay aloft for 32 hours, the Pentagon is looking for a drone that can fly [...]
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Swiss cops use anti-drone guns at the World Economic Forum
Swiss authorities have added another security measure for this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos: anti-drone guns. Bloomberg has spotted local police preparing HP 47 [...]
Epson’s Augmented Reality Headset Lets You Pilot a Drone as God Intended
After spending some time piloting a DJI drone using Epson’s AR headset, I was hooked — there is no better way to fly a drone. What is it? An augmented reality headset. [...]
Drone swarm launched by U.S. millitary
During a test in California military of the US has launched 103 miniature swarming drones from a fighter jet. Last October three F/A-18 Super Hornets were used to release the [...]
The Mine of the Future Is Run by Drones
Like the famous canaries that were first brought into coal mines from the early 1900s to detect carbon monoxide, creative solutions have long been used to mitigate some of [...]
Why China Was Able to Steal a US Drone
When a Chinese navy ship seized an American drone, the guidelines that already existed under the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) were not enough to settle the [...]
Six drones that do good for people and the planet
When the general public first learned about drones, the context was largely related to military applications and spy tactics, so the unmanned aircraft were cast with a bad [...]
The first commercial drone-delivery ever!
Some popcorn, and a video streaming device were the first commercially transported goods on earth, by a drone at least. It all happened on 07/12/2016 in the UK near [...]
4k drone footage shows just how far Apple’s new ‘Spaceship’ campus has come
Apple’s Spaceship campus is still a long way from complete, but this amazing time lapse shows just how far it’s come — especially when you compare it to a similar one [...]
Drones can safely carry blood bags
Paramedics and rescue teams can’t always afford to wait for blood supplies, especially when they’re in remote locations where most vehicles would take too long [...]