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From the battlefield to your backyard, drones are becoming more commonplace and the potential benefits of drones are considerable: They save lives in natural and man-made disasters, support law enforcement, contribute to safe infrastructure maintenance and management, and streamline agriculture management to name a few. By far the largest part …

  What if we can arm a tiny drone with a small explosive charge with enough precision and power to kill or maim a person? We then enhance its object tracking with advanced A.I. and facial recognition so that it can target an individual not just based on their facial …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Researchers at the University of New Mexico have come up with a new high tech way to move people and cargo more safely. It’s not your average drone. “It has four sensors on it, the main one is this laser,” says Roya Nasimi. Researchers at UNM …

Purdue researchers used drones and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) mapping systems to better understand the history of Dana Island, located off the southern coast of Turkey. Credit: Purdue University A quarry, a prison site or a religious location? Purdue University engineering and liberal arts researchers are using drones to …

According to MATA Aerotech, the padi cultivation using drone technology will replace manual spraying by workers which will take a much longer time. — Reuters pic KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 — Felcra Berhad (Felcra) will be the pioneer model of smart agriculture when it carries out padi planting spraying at …

Chief National Investigative Correspondent WYFF News 4 Investigates: Defending airports from drones Updated: 8:14 PM EST Nov 7, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript CAROL: HERE IN THE U.S., THIS IS THE FIRST-EVER NATIONAL DRONE SAFETY AWARENESS WEEK. NIGEL: BUT IN A YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION, OUR NATIONAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT FOUND U.S. AIRPORTS …

China is exporting unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to the Middle East which are capable of launching autonomous attacks. That’s according to the Pentagon’s top leader, US defense secretary Mark Esper, who gave a speech about artificial intelligence at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence public conference on 5 November. …

Image caption Drones are an increasingly common sight and, outwardly, this one is no different Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to help in searches for missing and vulnerable people. The remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS) can see things we can’t to try to work out where people …

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … your burrito being carried by a six-rotor drone from the delivery service UberEats! This week, the now-everything-transportation company unveiled its newest drone, which Uber says should make its first delivery in San Diego next summer. Or at …

Come next summer, the most remarkable thing about your home-delivered late-night California burrito won’t be the French fries inside. It’ll be that the San Diego speciality made part of its journey by drone, as part of a scheme to pull Uber’s food-delivery business financials out of a nosedive. At Forbes’ …