MIT wants prospective students to know that it’s fully aboard the drone bandwagon, parlaying an army of delivery drones (and computer-generated imagery) for…
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Personal drone registration will become necessary, U.K. Lords say
A U.K House of Lords committee has recommended that, in the long term, people operating drones for leisure may need to register…
Read MoreCheck out this drone video of a frozen Niagara Falls
How cold is it? So cold that most of Niagara Falls has frozen over – and NBC News has the footage to prove…
Read MoreFAA plan would bar delivery by drone, “micro drone” rule possible
The troubled skies over the U.S. drone industry cleared a bit on Sunday, as the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a new plan to…
Read MoreSuper Bowl will have 30-mile “no drone zone”
Buzzing quarterback Tom Brady with an unmanned aircraft might sound like fun, but anyone who flies a drone remotely near the University of Phoenix stadium, where…
Read MoreDrone on White House lawn leads to lockdown
A small drone landed on White House grounds late Sunday night, leading to emergency vehicles swarming the area, and the perimeter being…
Read MoreDrone pilot and FAA settle for $1,100 in key commercial use case
Raphael Pirker, who is probably the world’s most famous drone pilot, has reached a deal with the Federal Aviation Agency, which had sought to…
Read MoreDJI fixes bug that caused Inspire 1 drone crashes
DJI has issued a firmware update to owners of the brand new Inspire 1, a drone that caught the industry’s attention last…
Read MoreRobots embrace Ubuntu as it invades the internet of things
Canonical has revealed what I reckon is its biggest announcement in years: Ubuntu is about to invade the internet of things with…
Read MoreElon Musk’s satellite plan: Project Loon without helium or latency
Elon Musk dropped a bomb from near-earth orbit on Friday at an event in Seattle: Instead of working with mini-satellite startup OneWeb…
Read MoreHere’s what Facebook wants to do with 1,200 more employees
Facebook is growing its head count by as much as 14 percent according to a new Reuters report. It has 1,200 open job listings on…
Read MorePilot pressure explains FAA’s indecisiveness on drones
Drone policy in the U.S. is a mess: the Federal Aviation Administration is currently grounding commercial use of unmanned aircraft while letting any amateur imbecile — like…
Read MoreSkydio raises $3M to build software for safer, smarter drones
Skydio came out of stealth today with plans to build a smarter navigation system for drones, plus a $3 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz…
Read MoreCNN to study newsroom drone use for the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration has not been kind to businesses hoping to legally operate drones, but it is slowly allowing their use by…
Read MoreObstacle avoidance is the next big step for drones
Consumer drones have come a long way in just a few years, evolving from complex hobbyist models to consumer-ready quadcopters with increasingly smart…
Read MoreDelivery by drone: French postal video shows it can be done
Amazon and Google may have some catching up to do. It turns out the mail service of France, La Poste, has already successfully field-tested a…
Read MoreIris+ review: A feature-rich drone that’s still simple to fly
I’m an anxious drone flyer. Even in San Francisco’s biggest fields, there are always other people and buildings that make me constantly evaluate…
Read MoreFor the drone fleet conductor comes PixiePath
Companies delivering packages or farms mapping acres and acres of fields might not want to stop at one drone. A fleet can…
Read MoreMistletoe-bearing restaurant drone draws blood
Last month we wondered about what could possibly go wrong with TGI Friday’s plan to fly mistletoe-bearing drones over customers in some restaurants.…
Read MoreAmazon’s Bezos thinks ebooks made the book industry healthier
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked Tuesday of the company's drone plans, its campus culture and its indifference to pain of short-term shareholders.…
Read MoreAmbulance drone can help heart attack victims in under 2 minutes
An amazing video shows how ambulance drones could be a game changer in medical emergencies.…
Read MoreReport: GoPro planning to launch consumer drones “late next year”
GoPro, the leading camcorder company, is preparing multi-rotor drones that cost between $500 and $1000 for a late 2015 launch, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.…
Read MoreDrone entrepreneurs face “colossal mess” under planned FAA law
The FAA's long-awaited rules for drones are finally ready, and they spell bad news for the many businesses and organizations that had hoped the agency would give up its hard-line approach to unmanned aircraft.…
Read MoreMistletoe drones over your table: What could possibly go wrong?
A UK-based chain is testing the use of drones in its restaurants to promote, um, holiday cheer.…
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