Recently, Amazon made its first customer delivery by drones, carrying a parcel holding a popcorn packet and a Fire TV video-streaming device to a two-story farmhouse near Cambridge, the United Kingdom in 13 minutes. The delivery marks the start of operation of Amazon's drone program after three years of scepticism and regulatory hurdles. Prime Air aims to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes.
NASA came up with yet another innovative way of hunting aliens in other planets: underwater drones.
Darpa, the agency funding this project, is requesting designs for the drone so that they can start building a prototype which is capable of delivering small payloads. These vehicles will be able to disappear safely soon after making the delivery of the payloads.
Technology to support its drones to carry high tech lasers is being developed by a San Diego company.
A new implantable device can be a "super-attractor" for cancer cells.
Researchers at University of Minnesota showed how bear heart rates spike when a drone flies past.
Facebook is considering a drone and satellite fleet to connect users in developing countries, showing off a "laser communications system." Company's Connectivity Lab is working to beam data from the sky, Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post.
Chinese authorities have started using drones to prevent cheating in college entrance exams.
Enrique Iglesias hands will be fine soon, the singer told fans on Instagram.
The hit television show Game of Thrones is so popular that Ireland has instituted a no-fly zone above the locations it films in an effort to avoid spoilers.
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally approved Amazon Prime Air - a conceptual drone-based delivery system being developed by Amazon.
The Obama Administration has released new guidelines for regulating the use of commercial drones, which could revolutionize the economy and provision of goods and services across industries.
The Islamic Republic of Iran announced that they have completed the first successful flight of a military drone whose design was based off of a captured U.S. drone that crashed in Iran in 2011.
Hezbollah, the militant group, used drones to bomb a building occupied by the Al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda affiliate.
