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.

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.

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

The Omnicopter, a futuristic drone which can hover in any given orientation - ETH Zürich

South Korea is depending on high-tech security measures to keep the Winter Olympics safe.

Drone delivery could be coming to the US very soon: Package delivery trials are expected to begin “within months,” according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

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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.

After taking over deliveries for 20 percent of rural Rwanda's blood supply, Zipline is introducing its drone fleet to the rural United States

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.

The decision was reportedly the result of backlash the company has faced since details of its drone warfare A.I., Project Maven, were reported. By Ali Breland.

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.

Small off-the-shelf drones have been used time and again to kill people. Repelling such threats is not that easy, but jammers, shotguns, shootable nets or birds of prey may help.

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.

The U.S. military has been forced to relocate a large fleet of drones from a key counterterrorism base on the Horn of Africa after a string of crashes fanned local fears that the unmanned aircraft were at risk of colliding with passenger planes, according to documents and interviews.

Operating with almost no public notice, the FBI has spent more than $3 million to operate a fleet of small drone aircraft in domestic investigations, according to a report released Thursday by a federal watchdog agency.

When Chris Anderson started building drones, he had no idea what a crop survey was. He had never even been on a farm - at least, not "professionally." But about a year and half ago, he found out that farmers were getting excited about drones - and now, so is he.

There are two ways to explain why Bigfoot can’t be found. There’s the conventional view - that Bigfoot doesn’t exist - and then there’s what we might call the Donald Rumsfeld view: that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. In this view, we haven’t found Bigfoot because we haven’t looked hard enough. Specifically, we haven’t looked with drones.