Drones

New drone designs enable small UAVs to conserve battery life by taking breaks in unusual locations as opposed to landing back on the ground. For example, engineers from Yale University and their colleagues demonstrated novel landing gear for drones to perch l…

Drone transports medical samples at hospital campus

A selection of photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week: Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christian children react to holy water being sprayed on them by a priest on Palm Sunday. Image copyrightGetty …

Sri Lanka has banned drones and is detonating suspicious items around its capital city in the aftermath of a series of deadly bombings on Easter Sunday that killed at least 359 people. In a statement, Sri Lanka's civil aviation authority said it was bannin…

Sri Lankas civil aviation authority said Thursday that it was banning the use of drones because of continuing security concerns. Investigators continued to examine what role the extremist group ISIS played in the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, which also inju…

Zipline, the San Francisco-based UAV manufacturer and logistics services provider, has launched a program in Ghana today for drone delivery of medical supplies. Working with the Ghanaian government, Zipline will operate 30 drones out of four distribution cen…

Alphabets Project Wing has gained approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct commercial drone flights in Virginia. The company, sometimes simply called Wing, has been conducting trials in the state since 2016, but the new FAA authori…

The Wing company, a Google spinoff, has won federal approval to operate its drone delivery system as an airline in the U.S. Wing The Federal Aviation Administration has certified Alphabet's Wing Aviation to operate as an airline, in a first for U.S. drone d…

Watch NASA release a swarm of 100 tiny cicada drones

A spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare, Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, said that while they are commandos, SEALs are still expected to follow the same laws as all other troops, adding, Its called special operations, not different operations. The investigation repor…