Drones can elicit emotions from people, which could help integrate them into society more easily
Joy, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise were the easiest to recognize.
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Ingenuity helicopter makes its first one-way flight on Mars
After the first return flights, now it's time to start exploring Mars!
Drone thermal camera reveals ancestral Wichita site in Kansas
Researchers believe a controversial conquistador visited the Wichita site.
Protesters in Chile bring down police drones using simple laser pointers. Lots and lots of laser pointers
In Chile, protesters are using lasers en masse to bring down hapless police drones. https://gph.is/g/E0lDMQ5 Videos of Chilean protesters bringing ...
Google’s Wing makes the first drone-borne delivery in the US
A milestone in e-commerce... and the imminent age of robot overlords.
NASA plans to send a helicopter drone to Titan in search of life
Titan is of interest because it is the only body in our solar system (besides Earth) that has liquid rivers, ...
New research plans to keep drones in the air longer by giving them the ability to land
It's always good to take a breather!
New sensor backpacks could turn bees into crop-monitoring drones
BEEEE cause we can, that's why.
Search and rescue operations might soon call on foldable drones to find victims
A simple but elegant solution.
World’s first ion-drive airplane can fly without any moving parts
The solid-state propulsion system works by ionizing the air.
Wasp-inspired micro-drone can tug 40 times its own weight
This microdrone packs a lot of muscle.
Novel video shows what drone impacts can do to planes. Spoiler alert: it’s very, very bad
That's... surprisingly damaging!
British police find rape victim using drone thermal camera
Talk about a great use of technology!
Potholes could be fixed by asphalt-printing drones
The future is finally here.
NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars
Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.
Drones to offer faster, cheaper monitoring of Antarctica’s ecosystems
Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.
AI-powered drones race against human pilots
Humans had the upper hand for now. In the long run, though, drones prove more reliable.
Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared
The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.
Drones in Sweden carry defibrillators to save cardiac arrest victims
They reduced response times by over 75% during trials.
Cooperative prey hunting and sharing observed in Norwegian seal-eating killer whales
In Norway, a research project regularly uses drones to investigate dietary habits and predation behaviours of killer whale groups.