Drone

BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere

Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km

Networks31 Jan 2023 | 49

FCC suggests licensing 5GHz spectrum to drone operators

What's the WiFly password again?

Legal05 Jan 2023 | 5

Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently

Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds

Offbeat08 Nov 2022 | 41

Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead

Video No chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres

Bootnotes14 Oct 2022 | 17

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit

Cyber-crime12 Oct 2022 | 35

Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage

Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts

Edge + IoT30 Sep 2022 | 42

Spotted at industry confab: Quadcopter equipped with Brit missiles Ukraine is so fond of

Updated BAE falls over itself to stress it's only a hypothetical serving suggestion

Offbeat26 Sep 2022 | 19

Teams of aerial drones might one day help to build houses

Wasp-like technique could be used to 3D-print structures in that remote place you plan to retire in

Science23 Sep 2022 | 19

Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show

'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver

Offbeat16 Sep 2022 | 62

US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record

Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft

AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52

UK lays world's longest autonomous drone superhighway

And guess which ACDC classic will blare at the 2024 ribbon cutting?

Offbeat21 Jul 2022 | 38

Microsoft's metaverse is for training autonomous drones

Project AirSim can allegedly run 'millions of flights in seconds'

Edge + IoT19 Jul 2022 | 5

North Koreans spotted harassing SMBs with malware

In brief Also: Lawyers told to dissuade clients from paying off ransomware crooks, and more

Security16 Jul 2022 | 16

Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz

Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses

Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 13

Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range

Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer

Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 39

Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone

GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch

Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 44

DARPA wants to refuel drones in flight – wirelessly

Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 24

Majority of Axon's AI ethics board resigns over CEO's taser drones

Flying weapons offered as solution to US school shootings

Personal Tech07 Jun 2022 | 77

Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids

Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192

Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China

Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance

Bootnotes29 May 2022 | 29

Chinese drone-maker DJI suspends ops in Russia, Ukraine

First Middle Kingdom company to take a stance says it doesn't want anyone weaponizing its flying machines

Security27 Apr 2022 | 12

China rolls out bots to enforce ‘temporary closed-off management’ of Shanghai

Drones, delivery-bots and robo-sprayers at work in locked-down megacity

Personal Tech06 Apr 2022 | 17

Wing launches drone deliveries in the US where people actually live

Everything's bigger in Texas, even the flying package-slinging robots

Personal Tech04 Apr 2022 | 45

Scientists repurpose hoverfly vision to detect drones by sound

Video It's a bug's life

Science02 Apr 2022 | 18

Chinese drone-maker DJI denies aiding Russia's Ukraine invasion

German retailer stops selling flying cameras from firm the US labels an arm of China's government

Personal Tech29 Mar 2022 | 24

Alphabet's Wing drone unit inks supermarket delivery deal

Payloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced

Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 30

India bans drone imports to help local manufacturers take off

Amid much droning on about self-sufficiency, components will still be able to cross the border

Personal Tech11 Feb 2022 | 24

Dog forgets all about risk of drowning in a marsh as soon as drone dangles a sausage

It's not the wurst idea in the world

Bootnotes21 Jan 2022 | 35

Heart attack victim 'saved' by defibrillator delivery drone*

* And a passerby who happened to be a doctor

Bootnotes06 Jan 2022 | 64

Remember the 'guy in a jetpack' seen flying close to passenger jets? Probably just balloons, says FBI

Video Ah well, back to panicking over imaginary drones, then

Bootnotes03 Nov 2021 | 23

Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia

Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break

Bootnotes23 Sep 2021 | 23

UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones

Project wins £50k from government

Edge + IoT22 Sep 2021 | 23

Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown

Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man

Edge + IoT15 Sep 2021 | 81

This is not the tech unicorn you are looking for... and other stories

Roundup Another weekly digest of strangeness from around the world that you may have missed

Bootnotes12 Sep 2021 | 19

RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils

There's no council tax infringement a Brimstone missile can't punish

Edge + IoT10 Sep 2021 | 69

Robots don't smoke, says Alibaba, and that's why they deliver parcels so fast

Rolling out test fleet of 1000 in low-traffic locations across China

AI + ML24 Aug 2021 | 38

Cop drone crashes into flight instructor's airplane

The plod needs a lesson in keeping air traffic controllers in the loop, it seems

Bootnotes23 Aug 2021 | 30

South Korea to test grenade-launching drones

Back on terra firma, ransomware rampage sees elevated security threat levels and giveaways to SMBs

Security06 Aug 2021 | 31

Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories

Roundup A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe

Bootnotes20 Jul 2021 | 84

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what

Edge + IoT10 Jun 2021 | 73

In this round of 'Real life or Black Mirror episode', drones that hunt down humans by listening to their screams

Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind

Edge + IoT09 Jun 2021 | 29

Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo

Breeding season takes a tern for the worse

Offbeat07 Jun 2021 | 28

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

AI + ML07 Jun 2021 | 7

Flying dildo poses a slap in the face for serious political debate

'Is that a dong on a drone?'

Bootnotes04 Jun 2021 | 48

Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work

Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce

Science30 Mar 2021 | 3

Boeing successfully flies unmanned autonomous military 'wingman' aircraft that may become pilot's buddy

First test flight saw drone take off, follow orders, land by AI control

AI + ML04 Mar 2021 | 46

Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed

Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB

Edge + IoT19 Feb 2021 | 107

Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger

Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report

Edge + IoT26 Jan 2021 | 56

Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button

Updated Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops

Edge + IoT19 Jan 2021 | 122

Hollywood drone pilot admits he crashed gizmo into cop chopper, triggering emergency landing

Idiot faces up to a year in the cooler after FBI tracks him down from SD card found in prang wreckage

Science16 Jan 2021 | 129

Intel accused by distributor of breaking promises, shipping subpar enterprise-friendly Falcon 8+ drones

Tech slinger upset it can't unload $560,000 worth of flying Chipzilla gizmos

Science04 Jan 2021 | 6

Sony launches ‘Airpeak’ drone division

Hints at fun to come in 2021, for photographers and industry alike

Science10 Nov 2020 | 10

Please, tell us more about how just 60 hydrogen-powered 5G drones could make 400,000 UK base stations redundant

Gartner's finest – a former vulture – draws clouds over eyebrow-raising connectivity plan

Networks04 Nov 2020 | 62

Brit startup would like to beam 5G connectivity down at you from hydrogen-fuelled drones

And Deutsche Telekom's happy with this airborne base station plan

Security27 Oct 2020 | 11

Boeing puts Loyal Wingman robot fighter jet through its paces... on the ground

Rise of the Machines I feel the need, the need for 16mph taxiing in safety

Science22 Oct 2020 | 45

Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies

Innocent survey UAS brutally smashed into roof by Stranraer seabird

Security12 Oct 2020 | 38