Drones

UPS will use drones to fly prescription medications to residents of The Villages in Florida, a retirement community of more than 1350,000 people. The service is scheduled to take off on May 4, and will use drones developed by Matternet, a California-based aerial delivery company. The first flights will be…

A Florida retirement community of more than 135,000 residents will soon be able to receive their medications via drone. UPS and CVS announced on April 27 that they will deliver precipitations through drone delivery to The Villages starting early May.The unprecedented service positions UPS well in the race against FedEx, Alphabet,…

Since "The Jetsons" premiered in 1962, Americans have been fascinated by the prospect of flying cars. In the show’s memorable opening, George Jetson somehow folded his sleek space sedan into a briefcase, a bit of design wizardry science will find challenging to recreate. Cartoon physics aside, we’re much closer to…

On Oct 11, 2019, the high precision surveillance along 50 km of the entire route traversed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s convoy in India by four drones designed by Anna University made us wonder at the possibilities spurting from something like 3 cm resolution at an altitude of 100 m.…

The waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula are warming rapidly, yet we know very little about how this is impacting some of the region’s most charismatic denizens: the filter-feeding baleen whales that call this icy realm home. But a team of scientists is hoping to change that with the help of…

Aerospace firm Draganfly has conducted the first US test flights of its “pandemic drones,” the company announced today. The drones are fitted with sensors and computer vision systems that measure body temperature, breathing, and heart rates from up to 190 feet. They can also spot if someone’s sneezing, coughing, or following social…

A humpback whale calf nursing off the coast of Hawaii. Gif: MMRP UH/GizmodoNursing is a rather straightforward process for most terrestrial mammals, but the same cannot be said for humpback whales, in which a swimming mother and calf have to carefully coordinate their movements. Unprecedented video taken off the coast…

Draganfly pandemic drone. DraganFly Drone company Draganfly announced it will work with the Australian Department of Defense and the University of South Australia on "pandemic drones."The drones will use sensors and computer vision systems to monitor people's temperature and heart rates. The system is also able to detect people coughing in…

Draganfly pandemic drone.DraganFlyDrone company Draganfly announced it will work with the Australian Department of Defense and the University of South Australia on "pandemic drones."The drones will use sensors and computer vision systems to monitor people's temperature and heart rates. The system is also able to detect people coughing in crowds.Visit Business…

If you're violating the social distancing orders in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and you suddenly start hearing voices telling you to go home, it's not some odd symptom of COVID-19. It's the mayor scolding you from a talking drone. The city said Tuesday it has started using a fleet of five…