May 19, 2021 | Drones, Law Enforcement, Privacy
In Concord, police officials say they’re considering buying drones to map out crime scenes, locate missing people and discourage criminals from fleeing arrest. But despite insisting that unmanned aircraft wouldn’t be used for regular surveillance, police department...
May 13, 2021 | Drones, Featured
Drones aren’t just for flying. “Personal delivery devices,” or drones that crawl along sidewalks, soon could be used to deliver packages after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law allowing small autonomous vehicles to operate primarily on sidewalks and...
May 13, 2021 | Drones, Machine Learning
As drones become more popular and more worrisome from a security standpoint, many projects have sought to engineer systems to spot them. During his time as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program manager, Jeffrey Krolik, professor of electrical...
May 6, 2021 | Drones, Featured, Retail
Welcome to the future, courtesy of an expansion of Kroger delivery options that will soon include packages dropped off via drone. Kroger has announced that this spring, it will pilot a drone delivery program that calls for using drones to ferry products from a test...
May 6, 2021 | Drones, Oceanography
Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash. Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to...
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