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Japan's Rakuten is joining e-commerce giants Amazon and Alibaba with a foray into drones. The Tokyo-based company, Japan's largest online commerce firm, this week revealed its investment in a drone maker and plans to begin field trials in a unluc
"We are rapidly approaching a time where drone delivery is a reality"
A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the first fully autonomous urban drone delivery in the U.S.
Less than four years away
Less than four years away
Spray it and paint it
ProDrone's Byrd quadcopter was introduced to the market late last year with a long list of features and several impressive performance claims, not the least of which is a 25-minute flight time. We recently got our hands on a Byrd Standard. After mult
Under the sea, it lay dreaming. The body, printed from machines, sealed carefully, still functioned. It survived one month under water, then two. The salt did nothing to stop it. It simply was, a waiting state of being.
Not too long ago we heard about the Loon Copter, a land-based quadcopter that can go into the water and "fly" beneath the surface.
When listing all the ways humanity is going to ruin the future, one that doesn't often come up is the sun being blocked out by a horde of drone advertising blimps.
Not too long ago, superior joystick skills at the age of 15 might have won you nothing more than bragging rights among your gaming buddies, but for one young pilot from England, it has led to a huge payday and instant recognition among a global commu
The next best thing to podracing
An alphabet soup's worth of government agencies are exercising their ability to look down on ordinary citizens
(And maybe the Amazon, too)
Dan Lamothe at the Washington Post reports, High over Alaska last summer, the Pentagon experimented with new, secret prototypes: Micro-drones that can be launched from the flare dispensers of moving F-16s and F/A-18 fighter jets.
Drones are being utilized in everything from parcel delivery to search and rescue, but their limited flight times are restricting their ability to travel great distances or stay for extended periods of time in the field.
Under a Freedom of Information Act request, a Pentagon inspector general made public a report last week, admitting to the use of drones to spy on U.S. citizens.
This week, the US government used drones and airstrikes to fire missiles and drop bombs in a country that they aren't at war with, killing at least 150 people.
Drone racing sure has gathered speed in a short space of time.
The TED stage has, for better or worse, become a throne on which our society anoints its intellectual royalty. But Raffaello D'Andrea deserves your attention.
Says Militants Were 'Imminent Threat to US Forces'
Says Militants Were 'Imminent Threat to US Forces'
Claire Bernish of TheAntiMedia.org joins us today to discuss her latest article, "So It Begins: American Police Start Pushing to Weaponize Domestic Drones." We discuss the pending legislation and the legislative precedent for this type of armed p
All because of one teenager who made a flamethrower drone
The drone discussion has been buzzing around the state Capitol for hearings this week.
Drones are better behind the camera than in front of it. Dronemaker DJI today unveiled the latest in its Phantom series of camera-toting quadcopters, the Phantom 4, and did so with a video that features the quadcopter, but mostly as an incidental fea
Channel drone
Starting this week, owners of unregistered drones could face fines up to $250,000 and a possibility of up to three years in prison. It has been estimated that there could be hundreds of thousands of drone owners who have still not registered their de
New photos of the production process
Self-driving 'ground drones' are heading to London to make deliveries across the capital
