These autonomous drones can recharge themselves from power lines
Drones have come a long way in only a few years -- and they're about to become even more powerful.
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Drone with solar cells flies on sunshine
Meet Solar Hopper, an autonomous drone that uses 24 perovskite solar cells to recharge. It also looks mighty cool!
AI destroys human champions in real-world drone racing
It's a huge milestone in AI.
This seed-firing drone can plant 40,000 trees a day
The objective is to sow the seeds for 100 million trees by 2024
Drone mini fleet could plant 400,000 trees a day
Drones could someday replenish the world's lost coastal forests.
Scientists use astronomy software to protect endangered creatures from poachers
Drones are hot on the poachers' hot traces.
The Role of Drones in Climate Change Research
New challenges often require new technology -- and the technology is here.
Amazon just completed its first drone delivery. It took 13 minutes
Release the swarm!
Californian start-up designs drone guards to keep an eye out on your stuff
The company says its drones will be available for lease sometime next year.
Rotterdam’s new sharks will eat all the trash in the port’s waters
Not really Jaws but they'll do the trick.
First U.S. testing of a man-carrying drone planned for later this year in Nevada
Chinese company EHang's model 184 will be the first human transport drone to ever be tested in the U.S. Keep ...
This isn’t a canon, but a jamming station that ‘freezes’ drones
The battlefield is shifting from trench soldiers to cyberspace and unmanned machines. As always, when a new technology of war ...
EX-NASA Engineer Wants to Plant one Billion Trees a Year Using Drones
Each year, we cut down 26 billion trees, for lumber, agriculture, mining and development projects. Every year, we plant about ...
Mobile app lets soldiers order an airstrike via their android smartphone
Laura Major of Draper Laboratory holds an Android device with the airstrike app open. (Draper Laboratory) Yeah, I know - ...
DARPA wants to store drones at the bottom of the world’s oceans
Along the years DARPA has proposed, tested and implemented a slew of preposterous sounding projects like the Minority Report-like interface ...
Drones capture amazing climbing sights from the Karakoram mountain range
Spy drones have been used by the US government on a various occasion in Pakistan to gather intelligence from the ...
New Pentagon Tech: sky drones that identify faces
I'd like to divert from a potential discussion which might build around the trillions of dollars spent on defense by ...
