But don’t expect your next package delivery via drone.

Pilots of unmanned combat drones are experiencing a new kind of moral dissonance, writes Adam Henschke.

Now when your car breaks down, you call a repair person and wait. The tow truck shows up, the driver assesses the situation and then you come up with a plan for the next steps. That typical process could change, however, now that a towing company, 360 Towing Solutions Houston, is planning on using drones to inspect car breakdowns in the area.

It can carry up to 1,631 pounds of supplies to the battlefield.

This could be used to deliver medicine during natural disasters and more.

The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.

UC Berkeley researchers just broke another record in photovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to an ultralight engine that can power drones for days.

On December 1, 2013, Americans watched a segment on 60 Minutes about Amazon’s plans to deliver packages by drone in just “four or five years.” Well, it’s officially been five years. And Amazon’s failure to make drone delivery a reality is a great reminder that PR promises from big tech companies are often not worth very much. And frankly, it’s also an opportunity to be thankful that Amazon isn’t yet buzzing drones over our heads like it owns the skies.

Quadcopters with thermal imagery cameras can help detect vicious mini-mines that often kill or maim children

The Trump administration on Monday proposed rules that would allow drones to ope...

Passerine's fixed-wing drones can take off (and land) using a pair of legs.

Air pollution has reached hazardous levels in Bangkok, Thailand, leading some officials to attempt an unusual approach: letting drones spray the pollution out of the sky. Earlier in the week, levels of PM2.5—tiny particles 2.5 microns in diameter or smaller that can penetrate deep into the lungs—reached 185 micrograms per cubic meter. Anything above 150 is deemed hazardous for all individuals (50 or below is considered good).

The latest drone developments come as more farmers have started using the technology for work on the farm in recent years. Drone specialist from Christchurch-based DJI Ferntech, Adam Kerr, said the uptake in drones for agricultural uses had now made the National Agricultural Fieldays in Hamilton one of the biggest events in the company's calendar.

The math is simple. Humans are cutting down 15 billion trees a year and replanting only 9 billion, creating an annual net loss of 6 billion trees. Planting trees by hand is time consuming and expensive, making it difficult to keep up with bulldozers clear-cutting over 40 football fields of trees ever minute. We’ve had impressive efforts, such as India planting 66 million trees in a day, but that was a large-scale event, which required organizing millions of volunteers. It would be difficult to recreate something like that on a regular basis.

A video making the rounds on Twitter shows a massive Amazon blimp floating over a neighborhood and unleashing an army of delivery drones. Before you panic at what one Twitter user called a "borderline dystopian" image, the video is fake. It seems a tech-savvy Twitter user created the blimp with computer-generated imagery and posted it online, where it took on a life of its own.

There is no doubt that the mass destruction of trees — deforestation — is increasing day by day and also this process is sacrificing the long-term advantages of live trees only for short-term profit. As per reports from National Geographic, forests may still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land but, they are vanishing at an alarming rate. Also, another report by World Bank states that between 1990 and 2016, the world lost around 502,000 square miles ( 1.3 million square kilometers) of the forest area that is larger than South Africa’s area (1.22 million square kilometers).

Commercial operations in Rwanda prove the company can deliver emergency blood packs in minutes, rather than hours


The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned U.S. firms of the risks.

The US Air Force hopes that the XQ58-A Valkyrie drone wingman might someday accompany the F-35 and a new version of the F-15 fighter jet, according to Defense News. The aircraft is designed to fill a role known as “loyal wingman” — imagined as a low-cost platform that would be controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish a variety of tasks, such as flying ahead to scout out terrain, or absorb enemy fire in the event that they’re attacked.

The Swiss Post is expanding its drone delivery system, transporting laboratory samples between two hospitals in Zurich. Similar pilots have been conducted in Bern and Lugano. On Tuesday, the Swiss Post announced it is launching a one-year pilot project to use drones to send laboratory samples between the University Hospital of Zurich and the Irchel site of the University of Zurich, which are 2.5 kilometres apart. Laboratory samples will arrive at their destination twice as quickly by air as by road.