Drones

Police are pulling back from a small Indigenous community in northern Manitoba after an exhaustive search involving military aircraft, drones, and sniffer dogs failed to located two young men wanted in connection with three murders in British Columbia. On Mo…

DJI cut its teeth building drones. For a while if you said "drone" you were probably talking about the company's Phantom line. In recent years, the market has filled out and DJI has branched out. This year, we looked at DJI's Osmo Action camera (WIRED recomme…

Sounds like notorious human rights abuser Saudi Arabias plan to build a massive new city of the future on the border with Egypt and Jordan is going just swell: According to a report this week in the Wall Street Journal, consultants hired to work on the Neom p…

UC Berkeley researchers just broke another record in photovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to an ultralight engine that can power drones for days. For the past 15 years, the efficiency of converting heat into electricity with thermovoltaics…

Postmates’ cooler-inspired autonomous delivery robot, which will roll out commercially in Los Angeles later this year, will rely on lidar sensors from Ouster, a burgeoning two-year-old startup that recently raised $60 million in equity and debt funding. Post…

In August 2017, eclipse mania swept America as people jockeyed for the best spots to watch the first total solar eclipse visible from coast to coast in nearly a century. With the eclipse's path stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, tens of millions of peo…

The company has been working closely with the FAA over the last year; in 2018, the agency launched a program to test out drones in a range of autonomous flying situations, and UPS was one of the accepted applicants. It's been couriering lab samples around the…

A UPS drone delivering lab tests at a hospital. UPS UPS is getting much more serious about drone deliveries -- though not quite yet to your home. The shipping company on Tuesday said it created a new subsidiary called UPS Flight Forward to build up its you…

Drones are being used by companies from Amazon to Uber, but one company built a flamethrower you can hook up to your personal drone for all your fire-spewing purposes. In a video from company Throwflame, the TF-19 WASP flamethrower drone attachment is seen…

The Defense Department hasn't officially said what it used against the drone, but MADIS was present aboard the Boxer at the time. You can see it on top of the tan vehicle in the photo above. The incident illustrates the rapidly changing nature of warfare. In…