While many American college campuses are embracing drone technology in research and even new academic programs, a handful of universities are cracking down on what they call unauthorized dro... Read more
As the drone industry gains altitude as an emerging technology, the inevitable question of how to handle “drones behaving badly” is being swatted around the arena of media punditry with both... Read more
Did you hear the one about two Latvia drone enthusiasts who climbed a mountain and came back with a drone idea? For Ivan Tolchinsky and Igor Zhydanov, a desire to deploy a fully autonomous,... Read more
“Keep Calm and Carry on Reasonable Drone Rules” That’s the advice of one of America’s leading policy think tanks when it comes to UAV regulation. In a recently published column for the Brook... Read more
A Brussels-based UAV firm is offering clients a new level of property surveillance – intelligence from the sky. EagleEye Systems is deploying a new stable of products using a type of artific... Read more
If you think having a package delivered to your doorstep by an Amazon drone is amazing, how about a drone that can prospect asteroid or even Mars? That’s the vision of the Swamp Works lab at... Read more
A California county has placed a price on the head or heads of the rather dim drone operators who may have prevented firefighters from properly battling summer wildfires. The San Bernardino... Read more
Companies using slaves or slave-like labor in Brazil may face exposure and investigation by Brazilian officials thanks to drone patrols. Brazil’s Labour Ministry recently announced to the Th... Read more
Facebook’s future status may be in the sky. The social media giant unveiled plans today to test solar-powered drones that could potentially connect the whole world with Internet service. “Ou... Read more
The legal skies above the American landscape can get murky quickly. With state and federal legal changes always up in the air, commercial drone operators have to make careful choices when it... Read more
“These are the voyages of the Ocean Alliance. Its aquatic mission: to preserve aquatic sealife, to seek out new whale snot, to boldly send drones where no drones have gone before.” OK, so ma... Read more
UPDATE: This bill was vetoed in September 2015. If a recent California bill becomes a law, emergency crews will have a license to kill – drones. Sen. Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado), along with Ass... Read more
A partnership between the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College and the Verge news-site has spawned a massive database project to track all 500 companies that have been granted S... Read more