Drones

Dead whales, stranded and decaying on beaches, can sometimes be weighed. But weighing a live whale is nearly impossible. Until now.  Marine scientists have developed an innovative way to accurately estimate the heft of free-living whales by using drones to …

DALLAS (AP) UPS has won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will let the company expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, b…

The Federal Aviation Administration has given UPS approval to run a drone fleet, enabling the company to create a UAV delivery airline. UPS announced on Tuesday that the federal agency granted the company a Part 135 certificationa high level of certificatio…

UPS' drone fleet, Flight Forward, could be delivering near you soon.   UPS UPS said Tuesday that it's expanding its drone delivery service after it received broad approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate a drone airline. UPS subsidiary F…

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration gave the initial green light for UPS to start delivering packages via drones on Tuesday. Interested in Drones? Add Drones as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Drones ne…

The $1,000 Skydio 2 drone has four propellers, six navigation cameras, a belly-mounted removeable camera and a 4K main camera to shoot video.

UPS has clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin operating a “drone airline,” the company announced Tuesday.It’s the first company to receive so-called full Part 135 Standard certification for a drone service, referring to the section of re…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption About 15,000 Chinese military personnel featured in the parade Deep-sea drones and an intercontinental ballistic missile were among the advanced weapons on public display for the first time at a parade marking 70 years of co…

The US Department of Transportation said Tuesday it granted its first full Part 135 certification for a drone airline to UPS.  Since March, UPS has made revenue-generating drone deliveries at the WakeMed hospital campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, in collabo…

Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement b…