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Autonomous Drone Swarm Navigates a Bamboo Forest

Researchers at China's Zhejiang University have cracked the code for getting a drone swarm to fly through uncontrolled environments completely autonomously.

Search and Rescue Drones are Tools for Saving Lives

A drone team in Rutherford County, Tennessee found a missing senior citizen within an hour-and-a-half, spotlighting the advantages to first responders of deploying benevolent "eyes in the skies."

Snapchat Unleashes Tweensy Tiny Selfie Drone

Snapchat just announced its second hardware product—the first was 2016's Spectacles smart glasses—a mini yellow "selfie drone" called Pixy.

Intelligence Sources Claim China Is Using Spy Drones to Collect Sensitive Data in Great Britain

British defense officials claim China has flown at least 18 spy-drone sorties around military sites and power-infrastructure facilitates between 2019 and 2021, U.K. publication The Mirror has reported.

DJI Ceases Business in Russia and Ukraine

U.S. Addresses Threat of Terror Drones

President Joe Biden is addressing the drone threat with a "Domestic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems National Action Plan"—the first whole-of-government strategy to address unmanned aerial system attacks in the United States.

The Current Scoop on the Phoenix Ghost Drone

The U.S. Air Force plans to send 121 "Phoenix Ghost" drones to Ukrainian forces.

Drones Fight Deforestation

Drones are in the fight for planting new-growth forests.

Company Profile: Hot Wing Drones

Danny Jalbout started Hot Wing Drones—an aerial mapping company serving the agriculture, real estate, construction, insurance, and other industries—with a vision that automation technology would be as standard as the cell phone.

New "Naked" GoPro Hero10 Black Bones Made for DIY FPV Pilots

The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) brigade of drone pilots has not gone unnoticed by GoPro.

Volunteer Ukrainian Drone Unit: "We Are All Soldiers Now"

Aerorozvidka, the volunteer Ukrainian drone unit founded by civilian IT experts, has been building custom drones and modifying consumer drones to deploy explosives against the invading Russian army.