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More than 500 Lives Saved by Drones

The latest rescue took place last month, when sherriff’s deputies found a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri – using a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera.  That brings the total to more than 500 lives saved by drones, according...

Sony Enters Drone Market with Airpeak

Sony has announced that it is entering the drone market with a new brand called Airpeak, though the specifics of the drone itself are left something of a mystery. It plans to launch the project next spring. The bare-bones announcement says only that Sony has been...

Army to Mass Recharge Drone Swarms

Military planners are looking to drone swarms as both a threat and opportunity as the technology develops into a way to attack, defend or even deliver logistics. But short-range, small drone swarms have a problem: flight time. Most man-portable drones can run for less...

Airbus Using Drones to Spot Refugees Crossing the Mediterranean

Airbus and two Israeli arms companies will be paid €100m (£91m) to operate unmanned drones to spot refugees and migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea to Europe, according to EU contracts. Drone operations over the Mediterranean will start next year, after...