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Dropping Explosives From a Quadrotor Puts Tom Clancy to Shame [Video]
To a casual observer, this video might look like dropping high explosives from an RC helicopter. Which would be cool enough on its own. But the real case is so, so much better: This is the future of dropping tiny, deadly bombs from the sky.More »
Windy City Predators, Airplane Bands, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Video]
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.More »
An Alabama Police Department Has No Idea Why It Owns Two Drones [Drones]
Surprise! The Gadsden, Ala. Police Department recently discovered that it has two drones, and no one, including Chief John Crane, knows why.More »
Flying Your Own Military Drone: A User Manual [Drones]
When was the last time you read the instruction manual that came with anything? Maybe never—they're usually worth tossing. Unless, of course, you're going to pilot and kill someone with a Predator drone. In that case, read this.More »
America Admits to Targeted Drone Killing for the First Time Ever [Drones]
The hunting and killing of particular individuals via drone has been a poorly closeted secret for many years now. Not anymore: John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrorism advisor, just went on the record, admitting targeted robot killing is official US policy.More »
This Avatar Android Will Perform Life-Threatening Work on the ISS [Video]
There are certain areas of the International Space Station that most astronauts would rather not visit—like the exterior. But sometimes, somebody has to clamber around out there, looking for hull cracks. That's when the ISS calls on Russia's SAR-400 telepresence assist-droid.More »
Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China [Spies]
Meth and drones, meth and drones—there's hardly a more imaginable combo that pairs better. The PB&J of espionage. At least according to a Taiwanese duo, accused of an attempt to smuggle out military secrets and drugs to China.More »
Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More [Drones]
Just weeks after the Navy grounded its favorite fleet of unmanned spy copters, the admirals announced that they're spending another quarter-billion dollars to buy even more of the drones.More »
The Drone That Will Never Stop for Directions [Drones]
Until now, MAVs found their way from A to B with one of two methods—GPS navigation or a human pilot. Problem is, both of those rely on external systems to guide the robot. For a more autonomous MAV, the quad-copter must see for itself.More »
Here Are the 61 Organizations With Permission To Fly Drones [Drones]
The FAA has released a list of all the organizations in the U.S. that are allowed to fly drones. There's 61 of them, and while it includes the players you'd expect, there are also a lot of random ones that somehow made it.More »
