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If you have about $1,000 to spare and just want to take videos of things from the sky, then you should get a consumer drone. But if you want a drone that can hear, smell, or play laser tag, you’ll have to build one yourself. Thanks to a new drone kit from a startup called […]

Small, palm-sized quadcopters have a certain appeal within the increasingly cramped drone market. They are portable, low-risk and generally an inexpensive way for rookie pilots to learn the ropes. But these pint-sized robots have their shortcomings. In developing its new Micro Drone 3.0, UK company Extreme Fliers has set out to work features typically found […]

Every year, hundreds of people drown in the Caspian Sea. This, along with other statistics from around the world, inspired 28-year-old robotic engineer Amin Rigi from Iran to design a lifeguard drone that can be used in rescuing victims of drowning. There are many advantages of using a drone when compared to a human lifeguard. […]

One of the first companies to get a drone business off the ground in New England is not a next-generation robotics company but rather a small startup that’s betting that people are already itching to hire freelance drone pilots for an aerial photoshoot. Cambridge-based Fly4Me hosts a website that connects drone pilots with customers who […]

Commercial drone flight could be legal in as soon as a year, and agriculture appears likely to be first to see the most significant impact. It’s a lot simpler and safer to fly a drone over a soybean field than to deliver a package in a crowded city. But for farmers, questions remain over when […]

Equipped with camera gimbal systems that are capable of capturing and broadcasting crystal clear video down to operators on the ground, drones have quickly become invaluable tools in monitoring large areas of land and sea. This, along with tumbling prices and increasingly sophisticated features have made them a popular tool for aerial surveillance around the […]

The 41st annual Pride Parade at Seattle on Sunday was a blast, until a wayward drone crashed and knocked a woman unconscious, prompting police to look for its owner who apparently fled the scene soon after the incident. The 2-pound drone, which is estimated to cost about $1,200, had initially crashed into a building before […]

Yuneec has updated its popular Typhoon Q500 quadcopter with a 4K camera and a subtle refinement to its color scheme. The new Q500 4K is expected to ship in mid-July and will be available in a new gray gunmetal finish. Apart from these new updates, everything else remains the same in the Q500 which still […]

China’s air force dispatched a drone to the site of an earthquake in the far western region of Xinjiang on Friday to help in monitoring work, in what it said was the first time it had used an unmanned aircraft for such a task. China is developing an ambitious drone program for use at home, […]

GoPro has released an all-new action camera — the Hero 4 Session, the company’s smallest and simplest action camera to date. Unlike GoPro’s earlier brick-shaped cameras, the Hero 4 Session comes in a cube-shaped body, is 40 per cent lighter and 50 per cent smaller. However, unlike GoPro’s Hero 4 Black, the Session cannot shoot […]