A group of shocked cyclists captured video of the moment a drone operator nearly pulled off a high-tech bike theft. The video, recorded in Hustopece, Moravia, Czech Republic, shows the cyclists climbing a local landmark known as Lookout Tower and taking video of a drone flying nearby. The cyclists start scrambling down the tower when the drone lowers down to the ground and picks up one of the bicycles.

As drones become smaller and cheaper, experts urge people to use caution when flying near wild animals like this brown bear and her cub.

As drones become smaller and cheaper, experts urge people to use caution when flying near wild animals like this brown bear and her cub.

Uber may be delivering burgers by drones as soon as 2021. According to a job listing spotted by The Wall Street Journal, Uber is looking to hire an operations executive to make drone delivery functional by next year and available for commercial use by 2021. The job post referenced UberExpress — which is the internal name for UberEats' drone delivery initiative — and said the executive would help "enable safe, legal, efficient and scalable flight operations" for the program.

Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different.

A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced fighter jets, thanks to research funded by the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The work builds on research from 2015, which allowed a paralyzed woman to steer a virtual F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with only a small, surgically-implantable microchip. On Thursday, agency officials announced that they had scaled up the technology to allow a user to steer multiple jets at once.

The Wild West days of unregulated recreational drones may be nearing an end. A bill close to passage in Congress would repeal the current exemption for hobbyists from regulations and for the first time require them to take a test before flying. It also says such operators must fly no higher than 400 feet and stay clear of traditional aircraft. They may have to eventually install radio identification signals on the devices.

The FBI is convinced that terror groups will use drones to carry out attacks on American soil, director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. Wray told a Senate committee hearing the threat of drones and other unmanned aircrafts is "steadily escalating" due to their widespread availability and ease of use.

A Northwest Territories judge has reluctantly accepted a plea bargain for a man who repeatedly lied to police and flew a drone in airspace used by planes taking off and landing at the Yellowknife airport. It marks the first time somebody has been convicted under the Criminal Code of dangerous operation of an aircraft as a result of illegally flying a drone, according to RCMP.

Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them...

​If Amazon's delivery drones do actually enter our lives, what will they look like and how might they move around? If the latest patient issued to the company is anything to go by, perhaps they will be waved down by customers awaiting deliveries.

The California-based startup’s new machine takes to the skies just as the US is about to loosen rules governing drone operations.

When disaster knocks out cell towers, gas-powered drones can restore service. Verizon and AT&T are experimenting with the technology.

Even small drone operators could be subject to FAA regulations

Four U.S. officials said Russia's signal scrambling has seriously affected military operations.

China is flying helicopter drones on its warships. The military plans to fly drones on carriers, pair drones with manned fighters, and export stealth attack drones.

Despite protests from employees, Google is still charging ahead with a Department of Defense collaboration to produce machine-learning software for drones. Google hasn't listened to a contingent of its employees that is unhappy with Google's involvement in the military-industrial complex, and now a report from Gizmodo says "about a dozen" employees have resigned over the issue.

Google will not renew a contract to do artificial intelligence work for the US Pentagon, company sources say. The decision follows strong opposition in the technology giant's workforce. A number of Google employees resigned and thousands of others signed a protest petition against taking part in the Pentagon project, known as Maven. They feared it was the first step towards using artificial intelligence for lethal purposes. There has been no official statement from Google.

Israeli company Flytrex is to expand its drone delivery partnership with Icelandic retailer Aha

Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region

Dimitar Karanikolov is a Bulgarian architect with a passion for travel and aerial photography, exploring unchartered views of the world.

Move over, joysticks, torso-controlled drone flights are far more immersive and precise.

AI-guided fliers will identify fishing boats venturing into protected waters.

The Colombian government has started to use drones to destroy the plants that produce cocaine. Small aircraft loaded with herbicide are being sent to search for illegal fields of coca. President Iván Duque has favoured the use of the unmanned aircraft to ensure that damage to neighbouring crops is kept to a minimum.

Drones could tell when people are tired and lower a coffee on an "unspooling string", IBM suggests.

When Reuters photographer Lucas Jackson headed to Greenland in June, he traveled with a heavy, oversized rolling bag containing a crucial piece of equipment to document climate change. Jackson, one of a handful of Reuters photographers licensed to operate a drone, spent seven rainy days camped alongside Greenland's Helheim glacier, near the small seaside village of Tasiilaq. Using an Inspire 1 Pro drone, Jackson captured more than 700 gigabytes of footage and images in Greenland.

A teenage girl who did not know where she was and called 999 to report that a man had raped her was found after police deployed a drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera. The 16-year-old called emergency services in the early hours of Saturday to say she was on land somewhere in Boston, Lincolnshire, with her attacker.

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German non-profit group Definetz wants to make defibrillators readily available across its country so that any time someone has a heart attack, the life saving devices are within arms reach. And it's looking to drones to help it bring its vision to fruition.

An aerial drone, a pilotless aircraft of the type that has aroused intense public discussion in recent months, crashed Saturday into the stands at a public event in Virginia that has also aroused heated discourse.

The head of the RAF tells Channel 4 News that the world of "Terminator 2" is coming in response to a question about unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as "drones".

Paranoia over drones misses out on the fact that they’re good at plenty besides killing and spying. From agriculture to mail delivery, Pierre Hines lays out the case for drones.

Over the weekend, a German campaign event in Dresden was disrupted when a small unmanned aerial vehicle—better known as a drone—flew across the crowd and toward the podium where Chancellor Angel Merkel sat.

For almost two years, hackers based in Shanghai went after one foreign defense contractor after another, at least 20 in all. Their target, according to an American cybersecurity company that monitored the attacks, was the technology behind the United States’ clear lead in military drones.

When old fighter jets are retired from service, they're not necessarily mothballed — sometimes, they're turned into unmanned planes for test pilots to shoot down. And that's precisely what's happened with this F-16 retrofitted by Boeing, which was recently tested at Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base.